Hi... I'm new here. Q about LDs, SP and hallucinations :)

Quest for Lucidity
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moved to quest from gathering and title changed to reflect question (was “Hi… I’m new here and would please like some help? :smile:” :moogle:

Hi! I’m Annie. I’m 20 years old. I’ve never been on this forum, or ever spoke about my lucid dreaming online before, so please be patient with me.
My lucid dreaming started about two months ago. I’ll start by saying that I know most people try to lucid dream, but I don’t. I didn’t even know about it until I looked it up after a few times of doing it myself. At first it terrified me as I didn’t know what was happening to me. It still scares me sometimes. I’ve been told by a friend that when I’m in the dream, I should go with it, and see where it takes me. Sometimes I get scared though, and try to wake myself up - I throw myself into things and just end up ‘waking’ up back in my bed. Sometimes I can ‘re-wake’ up to 10 times. Every dream I’ve had has started, or I’ve been contained to my bed. When I try to escape the dream, and wake up for real, my ears get completely muffled and my chest hurts - and I get this feeling that I’m dying. When this happens all I can think is that my partner is going to find me dead! I was wondering if anyone else gets this feeling? If this is what my friend tells me, a spiritual connection, out of body experience, am I getting too close to another spiritual plain?
Anyway. My main question is - WHY AM I HAVING THEM? I’m not complaining. I am just a little scared. I just want to know - is there something medically wrong with me? Or am I connecting with something spiritual - and why has it just started happening now? I have the dreams about 2, sometimes 3 times a week. Also, when I have finally woken up, I sometimes hallucinate. A few times I have seen words floating around in a square, once I saw red circles (like the ones on no smoking, no entry etc) floating around my room (this was my first one, I jumped up and looked outside, I thought someone was shining them into my house from outside!!), and the last time, two days ago, I saw the square text, and also faces. Lots and lots of changing faces. Then I saw mine, and I was just staring at myself. Then there was more faces. I was just lay in my bed watching them.

Does anyone have any theories as to why am I lucid dreaming without trying, and then hallucinating when I wake up? Also, does anyone have any tips on how I can be less scared when I am there? Thank you so much for listening to me.

Annie xo

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Hi Annie, welcome to the forum! :welcome:

Like anything else that is uncommon or unknown to us could scare as and it’s good that you came here. Here you can learn a lot from community which is great and supporting.

First things first. I’ll tell you some facts and you can learn more from wikipedia and other portals.

So let’s begin:

  1. There’s nothing wrong with you. Ask yourself if we all trying to become lucid, why we do it intentionally? Do we wanna hurt ourselves? No. Being lucid means being aware. As it applies to dreams it also applies to the physical world. It usually helps if you are lucid, aware, self conscious in WL that you will have more LD’s naturally.

I do have some friends that get LD’s naturally and I didn’t figure out why they have them, only thing that they have in common is that they enjoy their dreams as far as they remember and I guess accepting dreams in your WL also helps to become lucid…

Ok, when we sleep we have are going through 4 stages of sleep in cycles of 90 minutes. One of them is REM which I suppose you know and we mostly dream in REM stage so you do dream at least 3 or 4 times peer night.

Hallucinations are caused because of SP which function is to paralyze us so we can’t act out of our dreams. Sometimes they are caused because of SP and mostly because we experience HH which happened before entering SP and sometimes(which is in your case) when going out of the SP. Nothing to be afraid of, normal thing which is happening every day, only difference is if we pay attention to them…

Just keep calm, go with the flow. If you become scared sometimes this feeling of being scared can escalate and the experience can become unpleasant! So keep calm, always. Think of something nice, try to produce the feeling of being safe.

There is the part of the lyrics of the song Rabbit In Your Headlights by U.N.K.L.E which I like to compare with the SP experience:

So if you are not scared and if you feel at peace when experiencing the SP that’s how your experience will be and vice versa!

Hope this helps. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
Good luck! :content: