(11-30-2022, 12:32 AM)Selbiene Raveren Wrote: . . . I think it was trying to feed on my fear like some sort of phobophagus.
I got quite efficient at breaking out of the dreams. Slowly, little by little, the phobophagus seemed to have less of an effect on me. I found myself getting angry instead and telling it to leave me the hell alone. It wasn't going to scare me anymore. I was done.
One day, quite recently actually, I decided I was tired of running, of being the one to force myself to wake up and break the dream. I decided to face it instead.
When I did that, it turned into this sad melty pile of clay, like an old claymation cartoon until it was nothing.
Perhaps this family member of yours has turned into something similar (if that is even her and not something else entirely) and is gaining some sort of energy from you by affecting your dreams. If I were you, I'd tell it to find something else to eat.
That word phobophagus, I understood it's meaning although I hadn't heard of it before now. A fear eating spirit, I've encountered these before and they are quite common in dreams.
A phobophagus could assume the likeness of a dead person and use that to provoke a fear reaction in the victim. Also, there is the possibility that the dead person left behind a spiritual shell of their worst characteristics, something that continues it's existence by intruding on your dreams. It is fading into a shade as the energy of the person's life is used up, so it needs to recharge with your life force to continue to exist.
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