don’t go looking for snakes, you might find them ,
or history that is not learned repeats itself ?
i went to try to find my shadow last night
it terrified me and i woke my-self up
now some dreams are covered with a myst and a veil,
something that evenwhile you are having t hem, you are not th ere
this was a dream-state as stable and fully clear as waking reality, of course being a dream it was still transient, but it MADE ME make MYSELF wake up
so i hope you can understand that w hen i decided to do this, i was looking at a reality that was very very ominous
now
some people say, well go inside, fix all your fears and pains, confront them
but some say that only brings them back,
be happy and focus on what is good !
i say comfront the shadow… when you do you will see its true colours
The answer is not actually to confront or run away from your shadow. Just try to talk to him/her. I discovered that shadows usually scares the others because the shadows itselfs are scared and try to make sure humans are harmless.
When you said MY shadow, you meant to be looking for your own shadow or for a shadow that represents you? If you were looking for yourself, then talk to it. Remember that when you get close to him/her not to have any intent in harming it or thinking negative because it will sense these feelings and you will make things worse. If you were looking for another shadow, things can be pretty different. You may try to talk to it but I am quite unsure it will work.
If you actually want to get rid of them, then use the darkness, completely darkness. Shadows are made by light and they cannot exist in the darkness.
I remember skimming through Boundaries of the Soul by June Singer, who (if I recall correctly,) noted that Jung noted that every time we transform a Shadow, more will appear. Not that it’s futile, that’s just the process of having a mind. The self-actualized self is never in stasis. Something like that.
I’ve been trying to face my shadows, too, but it’s either I lose, it’s a stalemate, or another dream character tells me I’m not ready to face them directly. So, just from my experience I’d suggest that maybe if you weren’t supposed to face them, you won’t either, so no worries?
There will always be shadows in our world to balance our lives.
“The sweet is never the sweet without the sour” 
Hence, it is very good to confront the shadows by embracement and to inhale the reason the shadow appeared, though desruction 
can be done too once in a while at the LD for the sake of remaining Sane.
Remember, the nightmare is there to tell you that your sub-conscious is not having that much of fun and that is something wrong now. Ask it, embrace it , tell it to reveal itself and unite with it - This is my belief.
Umm…can someone tell me what you are talking about?
I remember once, a while back (I haven’t gone here in years, but I’m trying to start coming more often), a dreamer on the forum spoke of entering a lucid dream, and seeking out the most frieghtening thing imaginable. In this way, he hoped to desensitize himself from fears that normally haunted his dreams. Is this something similar?
i learned the right approach is to meditate and identify with goodness,
this way anything that comes up dissolves itself impersonally, while goodness is a constant,
I thought it was the Jungian shadow. I guess it is the things we’re afraid of, but also the fear itself. Mostly it’s the parts of us that we don’t want to admit that we have.