# ear pressure **URL:** \ **Category:** Quest for Lucidity\ **Created:** [August 30, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://community.ld4all.com/t/ear-pressure/5409 "2002-08-30T05:26:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dnos](https://community.ld4all.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@dnos](https://community.ld4all.com/u/dnos)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://community.ld4all.com/t/ear-pressure/5409/1 "2002-08-30T05:26:51Z")
I’ve never really had a ‘full’ lucid dream. Although, many times I’ve realized I’m dreaming, but either wake up almost immediately or my ‘lucid’ dream is like I can’t tell for sure if I’m dreaming or not…kinda like a drunken state…blurry/hazy vision and can’t move that well, but textures are very vivid. It’s like everytime this happens, I can’t tell if I’m drugged up or if I’m dreaming…kind of a scary feeling actually. Anyway, the past few times I’ve realized I am dreaming, I get intense pressure in my ears (kinda like when your ears pop when flying or the like)…they come and go like a slow pulse. The harder I try to stay ‘lucid’ and in the dream the more intense they get till ultimately I wake up. It’s like my body is keeping me from becoming lucid or something…I dunno. Anyone else experience anything like this or have suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![tapir](https://community.ld4all.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@tapir](https://community.ld4all.com/u/tapir)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 10:50am UTC](https://community.ld4all.com/t/ear-pressure/5409/2 "2002-08-30T10:50:35Z")
Hi The ear pressure is created by your mind.I could only guess why you do so,but since i am no psychologist i don´t want to talk about stuff i don´t really understand.Anyway,YOU create the pressure,so YOU can stop the pressure! Voice commands can be quite powerfull. Next time say aloud “Ear pressure stop now!” Traumgänger ---
**Author:** ![DreamAddict](https://community.ld4all.com/user_avatar/community.ld4all.com/dreamaddict/32/364_2.png) [@DreamAddict](https://community.ld4all.com/u/DreamAddict)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.ld4all.com/t/ear-pressure/5409/3 "2002-08-30T17:32:38Z")
I have no explanation for the ear pressure, but you’re not the only one that has felt this. My “ear pressure” sounds kinda like a cotton swab in my ear, or more accurately it sounds like liquid stuck in my ear … kinda. I’m not sure if it is a mental or physical thing, but I’m very sure it’s natural and not harmful. But if it prohibits you from LD’in that does sound like a small mental block for you to overcome. Some LD’s for me also feel like I’ve been drugged… in a way you are. I assume this has something to do with the chemicals your body releases in sleep so you do not act out dreams. It is a muscle paralyzer of some sort. Most of my “drugged up” dreams are of me feeling dizzy, tired and heavy, seeing blurry, and/or unbalanced. I actually mistaken a LD as someone slipping me a drug in my drink, the first short moment in my dream I knew I was dreaming. But then I found out I couldn’t walk because my legs felt like rubber, then I was scared someone drugged me and I was questioning my dream characters on who drugged me. Funny now, a bit scary at the moment. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![GrandpaDEATH](https://community.ld4all.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@GrandpaDEATH](https://community.ld4all.com/u/GrandpaDEATH)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://community.ld4all.com/t/ear-pressure/5409/4 "2002-08-31T03:08:11Z")
Hiya. If you still have these problems, try to find out the position you are in when you wake up. I used to have a problem with the direction my head was facing, and the way my eyes scanned (in the ld of course.) After some time, I noticed that I always have these kinds of lucid dreams when in the same odd position. Once I changed this position I commonly fell asleep in, the problems basically ceased. You may want to see if there are a pattern of positions you are in once you wake up from a lucid dream with the ear problem. If all else fails, try to see if this works. Hope this helps. Seeya! :eh: