I'm sure that the scary dreams of children are not new but there's no denying that fear fodder is on the rise in western culture. Our culture is saturated with toxic levels of horror via mass media, much of it wrapped up in media products for children and youth. This is by design as it feeds the fear factories of the physical and astral planes as they reinforce each other. Malevolent physically incarnate entities play their part with malevolent discarnate astral entities to keep the horrors of real past experiences alive in the child mind, by flooding that mind and emotions with fabricated horrors.
There is no more absorbent sponge than the mind of a child. It is powerful and ready to go. Each child comes into this world with the subconscious records of all wounds of past incarnations. It should be obvious that children require healing relationships in a secure environment and, for the psychic (soul) development of each, none should be exposed to the intensity of fear and violence displayed through mass media. The level of that torrent is a disgrace against the consciousness of the child and unfortunately parents are fairly numb to it themselves so they are not sensitive to just how dark it is getting. That too is by design as each new year brings with it new lows in media programming so as to keep the temperature of fear and agression steady and rising.
Grosser and grosser hooks are employed to maintain that level of dis-ease in the child mind, especially in the animated fictions for very young children that are the "must sees" of each new season. The baddies are positively demonic and the goodies are usually complete saps, with vacant eyes no intuition and pathetic voices. Unless they're superheroes that is, in which case, even they are morphing into fallen versions of their former selves. The voices all round, are horribly course and gutteral, (or utterly vaccuous for the 'goodies'), the soundtracks are absolute chaos and the emotional facial images are grossly over the top.
What is so wrong with this, is that the inner- Self (which is closer to the surface in children) is absolutely nothing like these personas (animal and human), and children being so impressionable, take these distorted patterns of emotional and facial expression into their subconscious. Millions of these images and sounds and feelings penetrate straight into the subconscious of the child and have their nefarious effects on the development of character. The real- self is not reflected in these impressions but rather a forceful pseudo version of who we really are. The externalisation of the innate genius of the child is being smothered in the early years of development and is sometimes dealt a knockout blow by these forces. Artistic expression, work, play, dreams, social self- expression etc, are all negatively affected by this distorted media environment because it fails to nurture the child's real self in a healthy way. It's like feeding a plant herbicide and darkness instead of water and sunlight. It programs a destructive overlay which obscures the expression of the real self replacing it with the strands of a fabricated self, right from the cradle. Some children pull through all this OK but many do not. Our own nature has a lot to do with this but as a general societal influence, mass media does not have to be like this. It can be much more cognizant of who a child really is. That is, it could hinder far less, the natural unfolding of real- selfhood.
The other depressing development that i see and which contributes to maximum pull on the emotions of viewers of all ages, is the way actors are highly exaggerating their facial expressions to get their emotions across. We are supposed be so stupid now, that actors must distort their faces into cartoon proportions of exaggeration in order to get themselves across even in the most mundane scenes. Actors are looking more and more distraught in their expressions to make sure nobody at all could fail to see that they are experiencing what to anyone else would be a simple pang of mild malaise. Otherwise, without the exagerrated emotional charge, we as viewers, are supposed to be incapable of interpreting a scene. Television actors seem to be worse than movie actors in this and it obviously has something to do with a fashionable trend in Australian television direction (by the directors) at this time. We are supposed to be incapable of interpreting the inner emotions of the actors without these emotions boiling about, even in the simplest dialogue. The message is, "See? nobody can cope with their lives at all. All you can do is react very badly to what life throws at you... this is how YOU should cope with YOUR life.... Haven't got a personality of your own? Try one of these on for size." I am so sensitive to all this now that i can barely watch it anymore. There are one or two shows done with maturity, but 99.99% of TV is straight from the astral plane as far as the general vibration of it goes and it's not a healthy psychic environment for children. With the passage of time it seems to get worse.
Back to normal transmission now and the recounting of childhood dreams.