How to fight your demon?

Montelukast, a medicine for allergies, has a dark side effect, which can induce nightmares, and depression if taken on a long term.

It gave me a ticket to this reality of pitch-black trees and hanging bodies. And I knew I was dreaming. I was in a lucid dream.

I glided through trees. Punch-bag filled with corpses dripped blood. At the clearing's edge, a giant five-storey demon waiting for me.

For years I'd fled nightmares, woke drained, screaming, depressed. This time I said to myself, enough is enough. I flew to it's feet and said, "I won't run, you must run"

The monster shrank into a small one-eyed black cat.

I blew a breath: "Run" and it faded away.

To fight your demons, you should stop running.

But, this next part is what is interesting to me. Always. The waking up part of a nightmare like this.

Back in bed, eyes shut, I watched my wife cross the room and switch on the lights, I saw everything with my closed eyes. Everything that was happening in the room, having a sleep paralysis.

I ask this question each time to her.

"Were my eyes closed or open before switching on the lights."

She always replies, "Closed"

I don't know if it's our mind or something beyond. Still exploring, and running experimenting to see if I was hallucinating or did I really see things closed eye.

I once learnt that it is easier to wake up from a nightmare that is filled with light than darkness.

So, I have told my wife this easy method to follow each time and also to observe my eyes before switching on lights. She is doing this to me for the past 8 years now.

I do not talk much about these lately. But, I enjoy these dreams, good or bad, it always teaches me something that is helpful for my life.

I have been documenting these here in public for many years now, but I stopped it for a while. I used to write a lot of these dreams in my forum: http://forumforastral.com