Reoccurring Nightmares Options

I'm hoping for a bit of insight. Two heads are better than one, and a dozen are likely better than two (unless they form a committee). I've been having variations on the same nightmare for about 4 years now. I dream that I'm falling off of a wall, a precipice, a ledge, a building, a mountain or whatever. Generally it wake me up. I have been diagnosed with PTSD from violent and stressful incidences. I also had a kundalini opening spontaneously at around the time that this got to be an issue. Normally with PTSD you have nightmares, but they are nightmares about the issues causing the PTSD. I've never fallen off of a ledge or anything, so it seems to me that the falling is symbolic. But I'm not an expert on dream interpretation. One of my teachers gave me a charm with a sigil on it that I've kept beside my bed since and has prevented the nightmare for most of the past two years, but it seems to have stopped working. I'm going to pop in to his place sometime soon and see if the charm needs recharging or renewing or whatever. But I like to examine things from different angles and see if anything else helps. I'm on a waiting list to join a PTSD group, but while I'm waiting I was wondering if there might be something that I'm missing or should know that might be obvious to someone else. I'm smart enough however we often don't have good perspective on ourselves. I've often been lucky in having the right people around to give me the answers I've needed. It isn't something that is life threatening, but it is annoying and I seem to be stuck.

Good news is that I'm back in kungfu class and learning a new martial art. I believe that it is good for my concentration. I'm exchanging lessons with the teacher by teaching him taiji. (We're old qigong partners) The bad news is that it hurts a lot more than when I was younger. lol The class is full of young, fit students who are leaving me with a lot of bruises and giving me a refreshment course in humility. I can probably use it.

This post has been edited by Goibniu: Aug 26 2008, 02:51 AM

Thanks for your response Acid. I figured that you would jump in to this topic due to your background in psychology. I suppose that I can goose my MD to see if I can get into the support group sooner. I'm coping in my daily life but find some aspects of PTSD, if it is this, to be unpleasant. I'm trying to read up on it to develop improved coping strategies. But I'm perhaps a traditional male and find it undignified and unnatural to ask for help or show vulnerability. So the answer is of course I've repressed the traumas, that's what I do. When i do release something it is done in a measured way. And I have to make it look easy as it says in the guy code.
Your remarks about the meaning of the falling symbology are likely close to the mark. I'm self-employed, walking a tight rope with no safety net. Bureaucratic changes in the industry have driven my contemporaries out of business and I'm the last survivor from an earlier age. It has a connection to the PTSD, but is more a wear-and-tear issue on the nerves rather than trauma. It is a contributory factor however I'm sure. Likely-- like most conditions-- PTSD is multi-factorial. The charm itself is from an Anglo-Saxon bind rune. I'm not sure that it would repress dreams precisely, but it seems to be something to chew on. It might very well be that it has treated the symptoms rather than the cause. I will also have to research the difference between night terrors and nightmares. But this has been of some help. Thanks.