Slightly scared of LD'ing

I’ve just been thinking, and realized why the thought of LD’ing has scared me a bit. (I’ve tried many times to LD but never could, so I’m gonna try something new tonight that should work ) Anyways, back to why it creeps me out. I feel that if I was to be able to get an LD, that reality would seem so… boring. To know that another world can be created in your mind, where you can’t be “hurt”, and where you can control everything… Lol, on a universal scale people are so insignificant, and coming out of a lucid dream would just make that feeling so much worse :razz: Does anyone else feel this?

Well anyways, the thing I’m gonna try that’s new is waking up in the middle of the night and sleeping on my back (I’ve heard numerous times that sleeping on your back helps, and even if it really doesn’t I’ve convinced myself it does :tongue: ). I’ve tried before, but I get scared of the dark :bored: , but I hope that today I can, cause I’ve been building up my courage for the last few days. I can’t fall asleep on my back normally, and usually it takes me an hour or two to fall asleep in a comfy position. But in the middle of the night I’m out in minutes. Well, I hope it works, it’s been nearly a year since I heard of LD’s…

Generally what we fear is the unknown and what we imagine we will find.

LDs are as scary or unscary as normal dreams.

Before deciding what LDs will be like you need to experience one. Or read about what other people’s experiences.

Total control is a goal very few have reached.

A different mind set is that we spend several hours EVERY night dreaming. Becoming lucid gives you a chance to explore more aspects of dreams.

Enjoy the journey.

ah, yes, a thought that often crossed my mind as I began my lucid work. What would be the point of awakening?

Fortunately, bring about a boring reality is not the case. I find it’s the dead opposite, when you have LDs, your awareness is carried through from your dreams into your waking life. You start to notice more, and become more aware of every day. For me, colors and textures seemed to become more vivid. Lucid, if you will.

It adds to your waking life, and makes you a happier, more well rounded person, in my opinion.

as for the back sleeping. Yeah, I too have found a significant change in lucidity frequency and dream recall after falling asleep on my back. It took me a week or two to get used to the new position, but after that, it just felt right. Easier to stay focussed, I feel.

For your technique (WBTB) you shouldn’t wake just any time during the night. It should be 4 or 6 hours after falling asleep, so as to catch a REM cycle. This is a brilliant addition technique, but shouldn’t be done solo. Try and add MILD or WILD, and your ability will sky-rocket

If you need any help, don’t hesitate to ask, be it in this topic, or just PM me. Good luck, happy dreaming :content:

Unfortunately I can’t wake up at set times (parents sleeping) but I can wake up around the right times. If I tell myself to wake at a certain time, I’ll usually wake up around that time, but on certain occasions I’ve woken up at the EXACT time I’ve said. And as for WBTB I can’t do that either. Parents sleeping, and between going to sleep and school I’ll get 6-7 hours of sleep if I’m lucky (I go to bed at 10 and wake at 6:30, but as I said it takes me hours to fall asleep). For now I’ll just have to try waking and sleeping, but maybe some weekends in the future I can try the WBTB method…

yeah, I know how that is. Your sleep times are exactly the same as mine.

How is your dream recall? If it’s pretty good (1-3 nightly) then I’d suggest you use your time setting to try and wake immediately following a dream. If you can do this, then you’re one of the lucky ones, and can do WBTB without the incessant howl of an alarm clock. I’d suggest trying it on weekends (what I do).

If you can’t do this, then just awakening will actually work pretty well if added to another technique, as I said before. When you wake up, stay up. 5 minutes helps some, 30-60 helps a ton. Anything more is bad.

This is kinda hard to follow, with school and all, but if you can, try to practice it once a week.