I refrain from reading other works until I have written my own.  This to avoid being shut down by the superb works I read.

Both of the poems above are so wonderful, and I realize how similar the experience of fear is interpreted in our sleep, and remembered in consciousness.

I think many of us learn that if we can identify the fear expressed in our nightmares, face it in reality, look for the way to handle the situation we fear, we conquer that fear.  For me, that meant doing what I feared.  Eventually, we can find release from the terrors of the night, if we are good students.

“Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven”
Henri Frederic Amiel