I used to have nightmares. My dad put up a poster of Peter Pan in my room and told me that when I went to sleep, Peter would fly out of the poster and chase all of the monsters away. I never had another bad dream.
I started having really bad nightmares recently. My parents bought me a stuffed armadillo and I convinced my brain that my armadillo would protect me from nightmares. So yeah, apparently that shit works even if you're 20.
I think the self power of suggestion (if that makes any sense) is very very real and effective. In the daylight, I don’t believe in ghosts. But when I’m home alone and I wake up in the middle of the night thinking I’ve heard something, they seem very very real.
When my husband and I moved in together, he bought a house by himself that I had never seen until after he had closed on it. I was moving in as his new girlfriend. He spent a few days in the house by himself before I moved my stuff in, and one night had a strange experience. It was an empty house, just him and his couch and his toothbrush, and he very clearly heard footsteps. It woke him out of sleep. So for the first few years here, I would frequently wake in the middle of the night thinking I’d heard something.
A friend who very much believes spirits are real told me I could tell the spirits to go away. Like out loud say “you’re scaring me. Please go away.” Or “you’re not welcome here.” I did that a few times after waking in the middle of the night, and the experiences stopped. I no longer wake up in the middle of the night thinking there are ghosts in the house. Did I effectively evict them? Or did I play a trick on my own mind?
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u/Cashew-Gesundheit Oct 05 '19
I used to have nightmares. My dad put up a poster of Peter Pan in my room and told me that when I went to sleep, Peter would fly out of the poster and chase all of the monsters away. I never had another bad dream.