The Darker Side of Dreamscape

Good morning everyone. My husband and I were discussing this blog the other day and he had asked me why I was only writing the positive things that were relating to me. He wanted to know why I wasn't also writing about the harder things in life. I suppose the reason for this is because I had wanted to change the format of the blog to something that would inspire, give strength and help people to see a light through their own darker times. It occurs to me though that I cannot truly do that if I am not writing about my own, using quotes that pertain to those areas just as surely as I am writing about the ones that give me a new perspective. I had a somewhat troubling Saturday night and the unease of it still settles within me today and so the quote I have chosen is about how sometimes we do feel these darker emotions and struggle with them. After all, life is a balance of the positive and negative and so too, should my blog be. So without further fan fare, here is today's quote.
" I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking. Something in my expression stops him. Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself together as it does to fall apart.” Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
This quote, although I do not wake each morning with nightmares, still speaks to me on the occasions that I do. We can all be haunted by the images that plague our dreaming minds. For some of us, the dreams start to fade as soon as we wipe the cobwebs from our eyes. We are able to wake and shake them off as nothing more than an over-active imagination or the result of some horror film we watched before we went to bed. Others of us have reoccurring nightmares that chill us to the bone and take days before they finally start to release the hold they have on our minds. Theses dreams are sometimes not so much a psyche by-product as they are actual memories of trauma's we have suffered in our lives. When this is the case,  the influence they have on us upon waking can alter our perceptions to such a degree that for a time, we are stuck right back in those moments. We become frightened or desperate, whatever the situation that we are reliving calls for us to be. Reactions to outside stimuli; such as the people we are around, the circumstances we find ourselves in, even the environment around us, can become completely out of character for us. Perhaps someone who loves animals would have a hard time being around them for a couple days if the trauma they had just relived in the dreaming realm had something to do with a vicious dog attack.  Likewise, someone who was raped may find it incredibly difficult to be around a certain gender of person until the nightmare of the occurrence has loosened it's grip. It can take but a moment in our sleeping minds to shatter us, but it can take days to put those nightmare-effected pieces back together again. Everyone has nightmares and no one is exempt for it is all a part of how our minds process information. For those whose nightmares are really more like bad memories, I share in your suffering and know the struggles such traumas can have on our daily lives long after the haze of dreamscape has left us. It is not easy to have to live with such things but it is possible if you make the choice to be a survivor instead of a victim. I wish you all strength as you fight your personal demons, in dreamland and in reality. May your healing be swift and your mind be strong.
Namaste