01-01-2010, 09:42 AM
The theater might represent the world, the car the journey, the losses could represent the feeling of scarcity. And the abandonment is the loss of unity.
You asked for an experience of guidance, which brought up a lot of negative images. Which you then healed. Residual negativity remained. But healing often amplifies pain before taking it away.
Don't consider the experience too negative, it was intense and some care in not overloading your self is sensible. Take a little time to recover and enjoy the feeling that you've done some healing. You might already see it making minor differences. Then when the time comes there will be more experiences. But they will reflect the changes you made, they will be easier. The real benefits lie in the changes that will affect your entire being for the better.
Your response was correct I think. But I'd like to suggest another technique for the toolkit, if you never end up using it that's fine too... Go back. After a bad dream, lie back down but instead of accepting go back, change it. Visualize yourself avoiding the car damage and getting pats on the back because of it. Visualize you finding your glasses and phone immediately after losing them. Embrace your friends before they go unto the bus staying to finish the rest of the dreamwork. Visualize the phone call to them in which you describe you love them and are not abandoned even with their absence, and realize they love you too. This is the dream technique I used primarily. And it sends a strong suggestion of mastery to your subconscious and also a template to which dreams and experiences are formed.
My nightmares were usually about fighting for my life, being chased by monsters or people. People attempting to kill me or me killing them. This technique turned into a strange but neutral phantasmagoric mix. The choices I made in going back are represented in the dream. When I'm chased now, I can run faster than a car. I can fly, I can turn invisible I can become one with trees or turn into water. I can move through earth and fit through the tiniest holes.
It's sometimes a little silly and sometimes a little brutal, but makes for interesting dreams
And the underlying message that there's always a way, no matter how insanely improbable seems to bleed through to waking life. The dream contexts haven't changed much but they're actually fun this way. I often wake up with a smile, or invigorated because I just jumped over a building or something crazy like that. The only difficulty is going to work after that 
Dreams are a playground to me. I never really developed prophetic dreams or astral projection and such things. I just went back and changed things so often that my subconscious started to put the dreams in my format instead of the earlier fear based one.
You asked for an experience of guidance, which brought up a lot of negative images. Which you then healed. Residual negativity remained. But healing often amplifies pain before taking it away.
Don't consider the experience too negative, it was intense and some care in not overloading your self is sensible. Take a little time to recover and enjoy the feeling that you've done some healing. You might already see it making minor differences. Then when the time comes there will be more experiences. But they will reflect the changes you made, they will be easier. The real benefits lie in the changes that will affect your entire being for the better.
Your response was correct I think. But I'd like to suggest another technique for the toolkit, if you never end up using it that's fine too... Go back. After a bad dream, lie back down but instead of accepting go back, change it. Visualize yourself avoiding the car damage and getting pats on the back because of it. Visualize you finding your glasses and phone immediately after losing them. Embrace your friends before they go unto the bus staying to finish the rest of the dreamwork. Visualize the phone call to them in which you describe you love them and are not abandoned even with their absence, and realize they love you too. This is the dream technique I used primarily. And it sends a strong suggestion of mastery to your subconscious and also a template to which dreams and experiences are formed.
My nightmares were usually about fighting for my life, being chased by monsters or people. People attempting to kill me or me killing them. This technique turned into a strange but neutral phantasmagoric mix. The choices I made in going back are represented in the dream. When I'm chased now, I can run faster than a car. I can fly, I can turn invisible I can become one with trees or turn into water. I can move through earth and fit through the tiniest holes.
It's sometimes a little silly and sometimes a little brutal, but makes for interesting dreams
And the underlying message that there's always a way, no matter how insanely improbable seems to bleed through to waking life. The dream contexts haven't changed much but they're actually fun this way. I often wake up with a smile, or invigorated because I just jumped over a building or something crazy like that. The only difficulty is going to work after that Dreams are a playground to me. I never really developed prophetic dreams or astral projection and such things. I just went back and changed things so often that my subconscious started to put the dreams in my format instead of the earlier fear based one.