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How Lucid Dreaming can reframe your nightmares and heal trauma - Charlie Morley

The Mindvalley Podcast

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How to Transform Stress and Trauma for Peaceful Sleep

Nightmares are a sign of a healing mind. Dreaming is like an internal therapy session. If you go through something traumatic and you're not having nightmares, it doesn't necessarily mean th something wrong. There's a belief called evolution threat theory of nightmares which says the reason we came to be apex predators on this planet was our ability to dream. Dreams can be integrated in one of three ways: consciously, through talking therapy and, you know, discussing it through th ous mind and mindfulness practises. Or they can be released through the body, through a lot of sematic works. It doesn't have to come through nightmares, but if you are having nightmares after something tromatic

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