Why does fear tend to lead to lucid dreaming? I’ve had times where I think of scary things happening around me while my eyes are closed and when I get really scared I hear a loud high pitched noise and I start having a nightmare. Anybody know why this happens?
Just a guess, but I think it may lie with the fact that fear leads to heightened awareness. The mechanism that allows us to think and act fast when we’re in danger (adrenaline, I think it is), makes you hypersensitive. A lucid dreamer needs awareness above all. We need our mind to be aware and our body to relax. So if you’re in bed, slowly drifting away, and then the fear sets in and your mind gets all aware and sensitive, that might very well lead to an LD.
I’m not an expert, though. Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong.
Read up on Sleep Paralysis. That’s pretty much what you experienced, TrackStar.
And it’s not fear that creates the lucidity, it’s getting through sleep paralysis without fear. If you can recognize that nothing is wrong, the dream you can enter later will not be scary and can still be lucid.
Oh alright guys. Thanks.