Darkness

Dreaming about feeling your way in the dark

What does it mean to dream you are moving through darkness?

Described with a specific care that dreamers remember clearly: hands out, slow steps, and an awareness of a space that cannot be verified.

That last part is the content. The dreamer is not frightened of anything in particular; they are unable to confirm what is there, which is the same removal of information the fog entry describes.

The space genuinely is unverifiable, and not only in the dream. Nothing beyond the reach of attention has been generated, so there is nothing to find out. The dreamer's caution is a reasonable response to a room that does not exist yet.

Where something is expected to appear, that is the more distressing version and it belongs with the Bestiary and the sleep paralysis material rather than here.

Where this reads well

The unverifiable-space account explains the quality of the caution, which dreamers usually find satisfying.

Where it is harder

Sustained and tiring rather than sharply frightening, and dreamers report waking tense.

Worth asking yourself

What was I expecting to find? Did I use my hands? Did anything ever appear?

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