Hello everyone, as mentioned in the title I have had 3 negative experiences in LD that I did not seek out on my own. I just had these LD’s randomly and unintentionally. I noticed that this place is family friendly so I’m not really sure how to word this efficiently but I will try. As far as I am concerned, LD is when you are fully aware you are in a dream while in a dream. It seems every single time I have had an LD there is something that effectively takes over me, some kind of terrifying emotion/feeling and I always resort to committing sui***e every single time and waking up afterwards insteantly as soon as I die in the dream. I’m not sure if this is related either but I did have 2 night terrors/sleep paralysis where I could perfectly visualize a black creature staring at me but this has gone away since then, but during that period of LDs that was there in between. Is there anything I should be concerned about if I were to ever LD again? I do not experience these feelings IRL and I am content and happy with my life so far and how it is going. I have no intentions of doing these things in real life either.
-Edit: forgot to mention that I’m open to hearing out anyone else’s similar experiences and what they took from it. Thanks
those experiences don’t sound like fun indeed (to put it lightly)
my first thought is that you could use your LD’s to face those fears, / conquer them somehow (there are strategies for this). So not let it hold you back from LDing, rather tell yourself before going to sleep something like - if I know i’m dreaming and that happens again, next time i will - (and then visualise the thing you want to do to defeat it).
edit: also you may want to read this topic for similar experiences (sleep paralysis/night terrors)
Hello pas, I guess I didn’t explain it entirely but there was never any sense of fear when actually doing it, but the odd part is that for some reason even though I knew I’m awake, I wasn’t doing the action just to do it, but like I actually thought I was just going to straight up end it all in real life too by doing it in the dream? Man one of them made zero sense to me too because I was having fun in my dream and right before and then all of a sudden I just decided to teleport to a building and jump off also I don’t know if yall can teleport to random locations but that’s usually what happens right before i end it
Try setting an intent that whenever you think about doing that in your next LD you will just stop and not do it? It sounds like a recurring Dreamtheme at this point (Albeit a lucid one)
Or set a goal for a LD so you will pursue that instead of your “go to” action that kinda seems reflexive, the way you describe it.
Teleporting is a great dreamskill to have - look around in Lucid Adventures for discussions on that, or ask there since that is a cool discussion/question in itself
also I don’t know if yall can teleport to random locations but that’s usually what happens right before i end it