Thread: Nightmares

Yeah, I used to get Lucid that way all the time. It's called anxiety induced Lucidity. I love nightmares. But it really takes a lot now days to scare me badly enough to get me Lucid. It doesn't happen nearly as often as it did when I was in my teens. I have one in the Dream Gallery where I got Lucid that way. It's called "The sink hole"

Probably the best way to incubate them, is to see a movie that really freaks you out. But it's hard to come by a really scary movie now days. Well, that's probably because I'm older now, and don't scare as easy.

Yes, many people have noticed this.

They're also more exciting than most dreams, so some people find them much more fun.

Yeah, scary movies can help. Though you're right Caradon, most horror movies now aren't scary but just senseless gore and bloodshed. So much that I just get bored out of my mind watching the 100th person get killed by an emotionless zombie/main character thingy. The 6th Sense was a pretty good movie though...

Yeah, I love nightmares also. The biggest majority of my dreams are what most people would consider nightmares. I would say around 80%. Its the only dreams that I can become lucid in. I am hoping to learn to become lucid in all of my dreams.

My love of military fiction and spy novels is probably why in my dreams someone is always trying to kill me or I am always trying to kill them.

wow, I´m trying to learn lucid dreaming to get rid of my nightmares and you guys love them

unfortunately they didnt help me so far to get lucid. Once I even made a reality check in a nightmare that somehow worked (yes I did them wrong at the beginning), so I seriously believed it was real. damn, my day was lost after that night :/

Try multiple RCs, if you don't think you can do it right.

HAHA if in dreams nightmares are considered someone is trying to kill me then virtually EVERY dream I have is a nightmare hehehe or at least every one I remember.

I consider nightmares dreams where I get an overwhelming sense of fear or helplesness that many times could be considered unreasonable. I don't want to look snobbish, but in RL deadly and generally terrifying life threathening situations I've always been able to stay calm cause I'm not afraid to die at all. I just go into survival mode and am too busy to worry about pain or risk
my two sense on that little matter

Nightmares are actually the reason I had any form of lucid dream which lead me to be interested in dreams. I was a child with common nightmares, and my mother told me that I had the ability to wake myself up. I beleived her because she was my mother, and everything she said was gold, so that night when I had a nightmare I woke myself up. Even to this day, when my dreams start shifting to nightmares I just wake up.

Don't you think it's unhealthy to use negative forces like nightmares to induce lucid dreaming? Like if you start deliberately inducing nightmares just to become lucid, won't that have some bad side-effects on you? And especially if you already have anxiety disorders and whatnot.

yes !! that is a great way to realise thats is how i had my first ld as a child about 8 years old i kept dreaming about a zombie ( maybe i should have waited until i was 18 until watching horror's )and had this dream about 5times then randomly realised...
I remeber i used to shout alot because i knew i was asleep in most dreams after that one night and id see if people in my house would hear me shouting in my sleep so i think that was like how i kept lucid for so long aswell without knowing i was doing my own little way of staying lucid and done this many years before knowing what it even was or if it was something not every1 done ...

anyway oneday when i was out i asked my mates if they could control there dreams .. and they just looked confused so i asked a few more people all together about 20 people and none could do it ...
I kinda didnt think much of it after that but when i was about 18 i had another spontatius lucid dream and thought hmm i want to know what this is.. so searched the net and found out all about it

its such an amazing thing being able to ld !!