Meeting Faeries in Your Dreams

Faeries can be encountered in your dreams.  Sometimes it’s just a make-believe story — a typical dream* — in which you’re remembering a tale heard long ago… except that you’re in it.

The following article is from an answer to a reader’s question about some recurring dreams featuring frightening underwater creatures that seemed dangerous.

In my reply, I explain that the rules of the faerie world are different from ours.  Your belief in that realm — and what you believe — can affect your experiences there.  They may even affect the faerie realm that you’re in, in general.

Though it’s a reply to a specific reader’s question, the  following is what I recommend for anyone who is dealing with nightmares involving the fae world.

Dreams can be based on a forgotten story or even a genetic memory.  So, even if they seem vivid, you do not need to be afraid of them.

Underwater creatures with the teeth are part of several cultures’ faerie folklore.  The creature you described was probably a Nix, Nixe or a Nixie.  They’re the names of water spirits in Scandinavian, German and Swiss lore.

Each culture’s “Nixies” are a little different.  Many are beautiful, but a few are only disguised as beautiful women to lure humans to the water.

Most of them inhabit fresh water, but many have tails like mermaids in some reports.  So this kind of faerie may explain some mermaid encounters… but not all of them, of course.

As you can see, it’s possible that your dreams are triggered by some distant memories, or stories heard long ago.

However, even if it’s an experience in your past, in another realm or in a parallel reality, there is something that you can do about it.

First, read any book about King Arthur, and pay close attention to the Lady of the Lake in the stories.  She’s another version of a Nixie.

Then, remember that most faerie researchers — including me — are confident that what you believe about a faerie (and how much you believe it) has a definite effect on the faerie world.

So, if you realize — and believe — that you are able to transform into a benevolent Lady of the Lake, as in King Arthur’s stories, you can do so in your dreams.

The beautiful Lady of the Lake has inspired many writers, including Sir Walter Scott.  In his poem, he describes her:

With head upraised, and look intent,
And eye and ear attentive bent,
And locks flung back, and lips apart,
Like monument of Grecian art,
In listening mood, she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.

(A Naiad is yet another name for an underwater faerie or pixie.  Those stories come from Roman and Greek mythology.  As I often explain, this is why I think faeries are real: We see the same kinds of entities described across a wide range of cultures and distant lands.)

The Arthurian “Lady of the Lake” stories aren’t unique.  There is a Welsh faerie, the Lady of Little Van Lake.  She is not only beautiful and loving, but she’s also gifted with an understanding of herbs.  Her magickal cures are legendary.

Similar faeries have appeared in Somersetshire, in England.  Those stories are well-founded in history, and go back centuries.  They are real.

So, to help you shift the energy towards something beautiful — which might be beneficial to you in your waking life, as well — you might bring some houseplants into your bedroom.  Even artificial plants will be visual reminders of your potential powers to heal others, on many levels.

Create more beauty around your bed, so the last thing you notice before you fall asleep is something lovely.

The energy shift is important. It may not happen overnight, and the darker imagery may seem frightening and more intense as you consciously shift towards a more beautiful essence.  (That conscious work is called lucid dreaming.)

However, it might also be very easy for you to accomplish.  This varies from person to person.  The more you’re able to look at this as a quest in the faerie realm — a quest with important rewards — the easier it will be.

Also think of it like dealing with a toddler who’s having a temper tantrum.  The child may not want to stop fussing and being awful, but once you’re able to help him (or her)… well, the child is much happier as a nice person, enjoying the world around him (or her).

Just remember that you’re describing something that’s has real-world connections, and it can be affected by what you decide to do with the energy in the dreams.

This may take some practice.  It can be a trial-and-error experience, at first.  Don’t be discouraged if it takes a few tries to make a positive difference.

However, by sending beautiful energy to yourself, your experiences and your world in those dreams, you can permanently change what’s going on in them.  Faerie research shows this beyond a shadow of a doubt.

*Dreams: I do not believe that all dreams are just fantasy or make-believe.

Like many people studying quantum effects, I think dreams may be real-life experiences in a parallel reality or alternate realm.  They’re opportunities to learn useful things.

So, in this article, I initially talk about the dream being make-believe, my advice also applies if the dream is a real encounter in a very real faerie realm.

Photo credit: Nick Yee, Mountain View, CA

Lady of the Lake illustration by N. C. Wyeth