Last night I had a nightmare. I tried to do the LBRP but during the ritual, I was struck with some kind of mental stun grenade. I went down like I got punched. It was either random dream weirdness, like when you try to fly but you fall, or something didn't want me to do it.
I don't often get lucid control in dreams, but I have unknowingly trained my subconscious to use pentagrams for defense. Usually, when I draw the earth banishing pentagram in a dream it is effective for banishing. This time, for whatever reason, I tried to do the full ritual and basically got punched.
Does anyone have advice for defense in an astral or dream situation like that? Something simple that I could train my subconscious to rely on?