Fright of darkness

Something that keeps haunting me in dreams is darkness. Whenever I think of the darkness it appears, everything gets dark. I’ve tried to counter it by singing and just going with it but it doesn’t work. I still have fear of the darkness keeping me from acting out my LD’s. So how should I counter it? Have any tips or help? :help: Thanks a lot!

For most fears, the remedy is to subject yourself to the cause until it doesn’t scare you anymore. You could try to watch a scary movie, then be alone in the dark and thinking about the movie. Whatever situation when the dark scares you, that could mean that you practise in your dreams. You WILL get used to it if you keep getting subjected to it.

If it happens in LDs, you should have control of it :eh: Fear of darkness IRL should be just beaten out , altrough it’s bit a natural thing. However, in LD you can beat it. In most of fears that makes dreams a unpleasent thing, it’s able to talk with them, laugh at them, but darkness is something bit other. At first, you need to remember that you can do everything in LD. You do have control of anything in it. Just get enough lucid. Then maybe you should try to command darkness, force it to go away, or tame it, then train like a dog. You could also change your hand into a powerful torch, if everything another fails.

DeadDuck, your techniques sound really great :thumbs: I’ll try them the next time I have an LD :yes:

Call me stupid…but i think you should laugh at it.
“Hah! Like thats gonna scare me! Go away Darkness” I’m sure you’ll be surprised by the results.

Along the lines of what Dead Duck said, make sure you KNOW that by commanding the darkness and controlling it, it will go away. Don’t doubt it. If your scared beyong a natural point, keep repeating something, like : “This is a dream. This is a dream” until you have enough energy to do something about it. You can imagine, theres a lightswitch, or a door…or an even cooler thing yell out : “Let there be Light!” :tongue:

Seriously, if you beleive the above techniques will work, then they will.

Embrace it. It cannot harm you, it’s part of you.

By trying to overcome it, you are saying “this thing has power over me”. You are giving it power in your own mind. By struggling against it, you are admitting it has some power. It does not. That is fear. If you try to beat fear it has already beaten you.

LogicGate, I also thought this could work, although I haven’t tried it out yet.

Well, if I found myself in your situation… I would conjure some source of light.

Hmm, mabye cupping your hands infront of you and concetrating your energy into a pure white light that would dispell all the Darkness around you.

I hope you can overcome this someway!