I’ve known about lucid dreams for a year now and i really wasn’t ready to attempt the techniques till last night. I fell asleep letting myself know that I need to remember my dreams when I wake up. I was just at the first step of dream recall…I was going to be practicing for awhile and wasn’t expecting to become lucid within my dream. However, I woke in my dream while I was flying…and I really freaked out (instead of getting excited) and I was scared because I thought I wouldn’t know how to control it and what if i fell and hurt myself? Or what was waiting for me in my own dream world? Would I be able to control it? I paniced and tried my best to get out and when I woke up in reality my body felt real heavy…eventually i went back to sleep regretting that I had chickened out. It lasted like 30 seconds.
Also in my next sleep cycle I dreamed once again and was telling myself that I am dreaming, i was lucid maybe for a few seconds…and i met some people i know but I kept wondering if my body in my bed was making the same movements i was. For example if i was waving i was wondering if my actual hand is waving while im asleep. I know its silly but i was concerned about that. ( didn’t want someone to walk by room and freak out hahaha)
Well, its interesting that i was able to become lucid for a bit when even hadn’t mastered dream recall…but now that im up it feels like a dream and it doesn’t feel as real as it did when i actually woke up from it.
My question is, how do I overcome the fear? And how do I keep the real feeling of my lucid dreams? And also…should I continue working on my dream recall ( i recorded about 4 dreams last night in my dream journal)