Progress during bad dream

[Blueberry]

A few nights ago, I had a very real seeming dream. I was hunched down in a kind of aircraft that was the shape of an elevator tho bigger, and I was alone. I have a general fear of flying, tho I did work thru panic a good few years ago and did manage to fly again, but still I'm frightened when in the air. I quite often have bad dreams like this. So I was cowering in this dusky, dark 'aircraft', feeling shudderings and able to see landscape down below thru cracks etc, while the 'aircraft' rose steadily upwards. Suddenly I had the impulse to lie down flat on the floor of this 'aircraft' instead of cowering. The dream disappeared immediately - the fear went, the shuddering stopped and I was lying completely stretched out. I'm not sure if I really woke up, but I did realise at some point that I was in my own bed.

I remember now how my now-retired trauma T worked with me quite a lot on posture - not to change it so much as to notice it. Notice how it feels when I cower or fall into myself or hunch my shoulders forward or lie in the fetal position. And then notice how it feels to open my body up, with my arms and legs moving out of the fetal position or out of a cowering position.