I reached lucidity and felt scared......how to overcome it?

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)

Hey, you should check this out:

downloads.fixato.co.uk/dreaming/ … Method.zip

There’s a text about overcoming fear in it, I don’t know if it’s only for the fear in real life (for example fear of sleep paralysis or hallucinations) or in lucid dreams. I think you should definately work on your dream recall. Why not?

I guess since you are taking slowly and seriously the pracitce of lucid dreaming that you have read about it quite a bit. If you haven’t I recommend that you read as much as possible so you feel that you know what you’re doing and can think about facts like. “I am paralysed so my hand can’t be moving.” Just reassure yourself that lucid dreaming is safe. And prepare yourself to face any situation that seems threatening. Just having the intention will be reasuring.

Last night when I tried WILD it worked! But for some reason I woke myself up…on purpose. I don’t know why…I guess I was scared as well.