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5:26am December 30, 2013
This is a rock a friend gave me to prevent nightmares. It’s not the same as hers – it’s the same kind of stone, but it hasn’t been used for that purpose yet, and using it is what makes it that way. To make a stone that works against nightmares, you hold it in your hand when you think you might have nightmares, or after you wake up from them, and you think of it as protecting you from the worst of them. Even if you have nightmares, you wake up to the stone in your hand and you feel comforted that it’s there. After awhile, these feelings build up into a sense that it does protect you from nightmares, and that ends up helping you. You can do it with any rock, or any object, but it’s best to use something that has good associations for you, or at least avoid using things that have bad associations. Because the associations you have with the object are the most important thing in all of this. For instance the scarf my mother sent me helps me handle situations better where I might become delirious, because I strongly associate it with a story I wrote to deal with delirium. So now that I might become delirious, I’m wearing the scarf and it makes me feel better. And I associate wands in the Harry Potter world with strength and protection, so holding my wand makes me feel strong and protected. Objects build up associations all the time and you can use those associations to work for you rather than against you. This works especially strongly for me because I see the world in terms of sensory and emotional patterns, and easily connect those patterns to specific objects. (Both associations I’ve built up myself, and associations others have built up and made me aware of.)

This is a rock a friend gave me to prevent nightmares. It’s not the same as hers – it’s the same kind of stone, but it hasn’t been used for that purpose yet, and using it is what makes it that way.

To make a stone that works against nightmares, you hold it in your hand when you think you might have nightmares, or after you wake up from them, and you think of it as protecting you from the worst of them. Even if you have nightmares, you wake up to the stone in your hand and you feel comforted that it’s there. After awhile, these feelings build up into a sense that it does protect you from nightmares, and that ends up helping you.

You can do it with any rock, or any object, but it’s best to use something that has good associations for you, or at least avoid using things that have bad associations. Because the associations you have with the object are the most important thing in all of this.

For instance the scarf my mother sent me helps me handle situations better where I might become delirious, because I strongly associate it with a story I wrote to deal with delirium. So now that I might become delirious, I’m wearing the scarf and it makes me feel better. And I associate wands in the Harry Potter world with strength and protection, so holding my wand makes me feel strong and protected. Objects build up associations all the time and you can use those associations to work for you rather than against you.

This works especially strongly for me because I see the world in terms of sensory and emotional patterns, and easily connect those patterns to specific objects. (Both associations I’ve built up myself, and associations others have built up and made me aware of.)

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