Samantha's term for facing a fear fully so the energy trapped in the body from resisting it is released. Dreams are the safest arena for it because the conscious mind's defenses are down.
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- Facing the mental hospital in a dream
Samantha shares, for the first time anywhere, her deepest fear: being committed to a psychiatric hospital and disbelieved. She deliberately dreamt being taken there against her will and…
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Wake up in the dream, figure out what your totem is, and figure out that you're awake. And then when you're awake, do the scariest possible thing you could ever do, and then realize you don't die, or realize that it's okay, or realize that you're safe.
I didn't even realize how heavy my body had felt until it was gone. I think we just get used to what the heaviness of fear feels like.
- Dreams are the safest arena for fear
The conscious mind blocks certain emotions such as fear, but in dreams those defenses are down. A lucid dream lets you walk straight into a fear you could never safely recreate in waking…