Thread: Nild

The same thing happened to me. Thinking about it, it wasn't even very scary, but in a nightmare you know how scary things can become. I started to wake myself up, but then said "Hey I'm dreaming" and became lucid. Unfortunately, I instantly woke up very frustrated that I had had a perfect opportunity, but was already too far in waking up to use it

I just realized... nightmares never seem to have a conclusion. You just... wake up. I never thought about that before.

Originally Posted by Hellfire

The same thing happened to me. Thinking about it, it wasn't even very scary, but in a nightmare you know how scary things can become. I started to wake myself up, but then said "Hey I'm dreaming" and became lucid. Unfortunately, I instantly woke up very frustrated that I had had a perfect opportunity, but was already too far in waking up to use it

I just realized... nightmares never seem to have a conclusion. You just... wake up. I never thought about that before.
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My NILD only lasted an instant, but long enough that I was encouraged this could work if I just remember to do it.

Do any dreams really have conclusions? I can't remember right now....

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Do any dreams really have conclusions? I can't remember right now....
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I don't think so, but with nightmares, it's so quick, once you're at the "OMFG I'm scared" point, the dream is pretty much over.

hmm thats true i usally get lucid in nightmares but we need a way to induce nightmares then

any ideas?

I've usually tried to avoid having them so that will be a switch. I think it would work tho, if we could induce them. I used to wake up from a nightmare really scared, and then go back to sleep and be right back into it, so I would have to get up for a while to prevent that. If I had known about lucid dreaming at the time, I could have used it. That doesn't happen too much anymore tho.

Maybe watch or read scary things I guess. I don't know how much fear I'm willing to under go to get lucid. I think I'll try it tho.

The night before I saw this method I was in a bad mood wth thoughts about the KLu Klux Klan and a really creepy sentence circling my brain...anyway, I had a nightmare involving KKK torturers and scaples and a troll.

Just as I was trying to tell a friend of mine that KKK agents were trying to kill me, I said to myself, "Why am I bothering? This guy never listens to me in nightmares...wait!" and realised I was dreaming.

I havent has many lucids but this one, while short, was definitley longer than my last ones. This was also my highest level of lucidity in a dream.

And don't get hesitant just because it wasn't that long - for one, my lucids are short like I said and secondly, I still had time to try out a few magic staffs I conjoured up and use the one I liked to fry their brains.

Hey there,

My first experience with lucid dreaming was as a young kid, and related to nightmares, where I did exactly the same, waking myself up.

Since having learned more about lucid dreaming though, I've managed to turn things around. Nightmares pretty much always make me lucid, but not just to wake myself up anymore. Unfortunately, I have very few of them these days, maybe because in every one I've become lucid, faced whatever fear I was having and then continued on my nightly explorations. I'd love to have more of them again, as they are one of the few garantued tickets to lucidity that I have

-Redrivertears-

Ha, I forgot about this thread. I'm annoyed because I got scared in a lucid the other night (came out of a room into a gray swirling void, and panicked) and actually woke myself up out of a lucid to escape it. Instead of taking the opportunity that it presented.

Well some things are getting better; still have some work to do tho.

I'm more likely to question a good situation (win the lottery) than a nightmare while in a dream. My nightmares are rare these past few years... Anyway, I've done reality checks in nightmares, but I'm too stressed/scared to actually realize the significance of their failure! How frustrating!

Yea, something else seems to take over when things get too scary. Hopefully talking about this will remind us to stay in the dream next time it happens.

i dont really get nightmares
and wen i do, I never wake up from them. i just keep going through it.
but the thing is, my nightmares arent really wat ppl would call nightmares
theyre more disturbing than they r scary
like instead of something really scary happening, it will just be weird/creepy.
ill use a dream i had wen i was in like 3rd grade.
i was outside my school in the back, when all of a sudden it was like lava storming in the sky, and the ground remained solid, but it was cracking a bit and lava was getting everywhere
and i was just running away when there was a canvas roofed shelter with 4 support beams on the corners and no walls came up and there was a hammock in there (and this all seemed very logical to me XD) and for some reason my cousin showed up
and thats pretty much it
but i did have an even more disturbing/depressing/weird dream last night which confused me lol
but i dont feel like typing it (its alot more complex)

i always confront the problems in nightmares and either become lucid or have a lot of fun with it i want to try to use this des anyone know how to induce nightmares the only way i know of is to watch horror movies but there arent any on tonight