How dark or evil do your dreams get?

[In Flux]

I sometimes experience great darkness and evil in my dreams.

For example, last night, I dreamt about reading a book, which turned into witnessing a scene in which a mob of beings (not sure if they were people) violently crushed another group of beings. This violence was not passionate or explosive, it was more like a calculated and purposeful crushing. And it was more than "just" violence, it was evil in a way that is hard to describe (*), and really disgusting to watch (soon after, I averted my eyes, though instinctively I always have the sense that I'm not supposed to avert them).

Of course, it worries me to have such experiences in my own mind. I'm not saying the experience necessarily comes from my mind, but just that it somehow took place within my mind, even if its source or inspiration perhaps came - I hope! - from outside of my mind. In general I feel sane, but having such dreams feels quite unhealthy. So I was wondering if other people also experience these very evil scenes in their dreams, and what you make of these?

(*) It was like the violence was a manifestation of a deep underlying evil, rather than "this is really evil" being the conclusion you would reach when watching this violent scene. For example, one of these violent beings was crushing his own skull with a big stone, which didn't seem to bother that being, as it was merely acting out its demonic nature.

[Miss Hepburn]

''How evil or dark?''
Um, zero. Sorry, but I can't even imagine me having anything like that.

[FallingLeaves]

my dreams are dim but never evil...

[AstralTraveller]

I don't get dark, or bad dreams fortunately. I can't remember any bad or dark or evils dreams. And my active dream journal has no entries either. I believe the most disturbing dream I ever have and documented was two birds procreating.... right before me....

[Miss Hepburn]

I probably should ask..what kind of music do you listen to and TV or movies?
My sister watches scary, disturbing things and complains of nightmares...
I tell her how stupid she is and say ...''Watch a comedy before bed, idiot!!''
Stop watching the NEWS, too!
Sisters!!!

[In Flux]

Thanks for asking :-). I avoid music and series or movies that have a negative vibe. I do follow the news, and I think about the news, or what human motivations are behind the news (more than trying to understand all the political shenanigans, which in the end seem like a superficial - and impenetrable - layer anyway).

[Wisteria]

Could there be something going on in ur waking life, any kind of stress etc, I know when i discovered my ex partner was having an affair, it affected me for so long, not so much in dreams, though I was giving the clues through them, it was more in my meditations, negative images appearing, trying desperately to block them out, I had to stop for a while, it seemed I was trying to suppress my worries instead of facing them, sometimes we have to heal the inside and clear the way in waking life to bring it outwards. I stopped watching the news also, I am like an empath I remember the sub that was lost underwater, and for those days I felt like I was stuck in a void, I don’t invest my energy into it anymore, and have been in a much better place. My advice is to not give them any thought allow them to come and go paying no attention, the brain works in mysterious ways, I often wondered if the ego is responsible which made me more determined to not associate with it, and it just faded away, I suppose the ego could thrive if we allow it to cause us fear and worry.

[In Flux]

In my life, I do feel I'm disconnected from what truly uplifts me. But not entirely, there are moments where I sense this potential. When I meet evil in my dreams, I have the sense that it's more outside of me than within me (even though thinking in terms of "within" and "without" is probably misleading). But there is something strangely infectious about evil, as you watch it, it can easily drag you down somehow. When this happens, you don't feel the same person anymore (you may try to invoke love and positivity, but it's hard, because you loose connection to those). It's a bit like sinking into quicksand, quite scary. Fortunately, what I describe is rare, but it does worry me. That's also why I avoid certain music, movies and series.

I do think I have to try harder to connect to whatever uplifts me. I will start by avoiding the news for a while.

PS In the past, I had these negative dreams more frequently, and my ritual when waking up from such a dream was to listen to Bach's Goldberg Variations, it was the best way (and maybe the only thing I knew that really worked for me) to restore a sense of peace and normality.

[Miss Hepburn]

Glad to hear you pay attention to the music you listen to and TV.

Me? I would surround myself with neat, happy, positive, inspiring things..
music, books, youtube talks - teachers like Dr. Joe Dispenza, Abraham-Hicks....so many things.
Good luck with this.
It was smart to reach out, imo.

[dream jo]

Best to record your dreams in a dream journal or go on my space on here and create your own blog and write your dreams down in there it might give you answers
Or if you couldn't art try if you are good it art try and sketch out dreams on us art book on an art book or on a canvas it might help you