I think I’ve had lucid dreams before, but the thought never occurred to me that I could control them. In my dreams, I just kept on going my way, realizing that it was a dream.
Anyway, I’m not sure whether to try dreaming lucidly. I have a psychological weakness to fear. When I stay awake at night, sometimes I will not be able to go to sleep, sometimes unable to even be able to open my eyes, because I will be absolutely convinced that if I close my eyes and open them again someone will be standing in my room and will kill me (usually it’s Michael Myers from the Halloween movies). Other times I go to sleep easily and don’t give it a second thought.
The thing I’m worried about is that I won’t be able to control my mind wandering in a dream and it will inevitably turn into a nightmare. Is this fear grounded? Or maybe will the dreams enable me to confront my fears and conquer them? I just need advice.
Well, I don’t think that lucid dreaming will bring about more dreams than usual if you just keep your mind focused on good or neutral things.
If something bad happens while you’re LDing you can just try to bring it back to something good. Even if something bad does happen, don’t let this discourage you because you’ll just wake up and it won’t be any worse from a regular nightmare.
Yes as The Big O said, it will not be worse then normal dreaming, and you at least have the chance of overcomming your fears in an LD. That is more then you have in an ND. So if that is your only concern, then go ahead and give it a try.
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Like the others said it is a great way to overcome your fear, but If something bad does come after you, you have to be prepared to take control. It can be a frightening experience, and you may forget what you need to do. As long as you remember you are in complete control of everything that happens you should have no problem. What you expect to happen will happen. If you expect a knife wielding maniac to come and chop your head off, it will happen. If you expect that knife wielding maniac to jump out, get on a unicycle, transform into a little green dude, ride an elephant to the moon and eat popcorn until he implodes, it will happen.
Just remember to expect the expected, and not worry about the unexpected and you’ll be fine
wow i sorta feel the same as you, sometimes after watching anything that reminds me of ghosts, etc i imagine turning around and seeing something like that. But i think you should try LDing anyway, after all, would you turn down being able to do ANYTHING?
I havn’t tryed LDing yet, but i sure as hell wanna do it
That isn’t really a concern, in fact lucid dreaming would probably yield the opposite result. If you were have a nightmare and became lucid it is very easy to deal with, the best way is to confrot the attacker in a friendly way, it helps to resolve that conflict and always ends the nightmare.
I havn’t ever had a lucid dream that turned into a nightmare, they have been only pleasurable or usefule experiences.
I use to have the biggest fear of the dark. It was so bad id always be paraniod about everything and that things were always comming to get me and weird stuff like that. After Practicing Lucid Dreaming and Astral Projection and things i figured out alot of things and now i look at everything at another point of view. It really helped so i advise you to start a dream journal to help your dream recall and really work on controlling your dreams and start being aware of the things around you. Your mind is just tricking you.
Oh i though you were going to say Michael Jackson. I have the same problem, scared of:the dark,alien abductions,FBI snipers, Spiders, ghosts. When i wacth a show about any of that i cant stop but then at night too scared to sleep. hopefully i will overcome this
Thing is, in LDs, most of us don’t even feel fear. I, for example, have seen flying round demons with horns and stuff try to harm my parents, but just made them disappear with a wave of my hand. No problem, really Also, the so-called scary stuff in LDs are in rare cases. You won’t have scary dreams if you believe you won’t.
You are in charge, but you don’t know.
You will realise that the most you fear, the most you are in danger. After learning to control your fear (trust your own mind and dreams) you will be safe.
welcome to LD4all 
