Today on The Grave Talks, part two of our conversation about nightmares with author and dream

analyst J.M. DeBoard. Nightmares, we've all had them. You're trapped or chased, hunted by demons,

and then you wake up terrified or wondering what it all meant. They can be triggered by many

things like stress, life changes, illness, and maybe the reason is simply that scary movie you

watched before bed. But is your unconscious mind delivering messages to you while you sleep?

Let's explore the tools you'll need to sort through and make sense of your nightmares. I'm Carol Hughes, and on this episode of the

Grave Talks, a conversation about nightmares with J.M. DeBoard, author of Nightmares, your guide to

interpreting your darkest dreams.

There are people who do have recurring nightmares that by reading this book, it might give

them some insight to their own issues.

And maybe if they keep track of these dreams and start looking into them a little deeper, it can

resolve some trauma that they're dealing with in life.

Maybe you need to dive in.

Yeah, you do.

Because this is the way that I conceptualize nightmares for my students, my readers.

I teach them that you're having nightmares for a reason or reasons,

and it often relates to something in your life that needs to be fixed. Something in you is

crying out for you to give it the attention that it needs. And if you try to ignore it,

you're doing exactly what it is that's producing the nightmares in the first place.

When you trace over a history of someone's dream life and you're like, well, here's where

the nightmares started. Let's look back further. And what you can often see is that

the dreams started with gentler methods to try to get their attention. It didn't work.

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