My wife and I recently spent a few days at a friend’s house in Newport Beach, Oregon.We had never been there before, and our friends had taken great pains to make sure that everything was vacuumed and counters wiped down and generally clean upon our arrival. Before going to bed that first night, I did my normal ritual when occupying other spaces other than my own for the night. This entailed calling upon my spiritual helpers and guides to ensure that the space was clean energetically. At about two in the morning, I became aware that I was in the midst of a very scary dream.I am not typically a lucid dreamer, but this particular dream was so scary to me that I woke myself up from it and found myself covered with goose bumps feeling very cold. I immediately knew that I had been contaminated by some kind of subtle negative energy.I spent the next 15 minutes calling on my helpers to support me to release whatever had attached to me.Eventually, I felt I was successful as I was able to feel calm once again and drift back to sleep.Why this happened in spite of my awareness to take precautions I do not know.
Curiously, over the course of the next two days, I could not get warm in that house, regardless of what I was wearing or how much heat was circulating through the structure.The third night I had another disturbing nightmare which required the same response from me.However this time, I had been awakened at four in the morning and I was not able to get back to sleep.Before having breakfast with my wife, I once again called on my guides to clean the house and create a sacred space for us.I typically don’t like to share the details about intrusions or attachments with my wife since it is my issue, and I don’t want to disturb her explaining how negative energies from another dimensions can come through and negatively influence us in our “normal” consensus reality middle world. As we packed up our bags to depart from this sweet little house and return to the Willamette Valley, we decided to stop at a little restaurant for an early dinner before we drove home.During our conversation I shared just a little about my perceptions that the house was contaminated and that I wasn’t so sure I wanted to return in the future. As we conversed, it turned out that my wife (who is not shamanically inclined), told me that she had problems sleeping that last night and also had a very unusual and disturbing dream. She told me that she saw a shaman gesticulating in a very intense way to ward off what seemed to her to be distorted and macabre aggressive beings trying to approach her. She said she had never had this kind of dream before, and as I began explaining what had happened to me, we came to the inevitable conclusion that we were both affected by negative energies that were inhabiting the house.I must confess I’ve never had that kind of persistent intrusion except just once before many years ago, when we were staying at a large hotel in Denver. It was during that Denver trip that I learned how important it is to create a sacred space and good spiritual hygiene in order to ensure that I don’t pick up anything in a foreign environment. I also came to realize that sometimes, if my initial efforts to maintain a sacred space energetically were continuing to be defied, there are larger issues with the space than just an errant earthbound spirit that happens to be in the space.In this case, one would have to spend more serious time and intention to “heal the house.” If we had been staying longer, that would have been my task.
I will simply summarize by suggesting that whether you are at home, sleeping in a hotel or someone else’s home, should you begin to have bad dreams bordering on nightmares, unless you have PTSD, it’s likely that the space you are in is energetically contaminated. A word to the wise—take appropriate spiritual precautions so you can get the sleep you deserve.
Howard Brockman, LCSW
Posted July 23, 2009
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