Thread: The problem with summer

Whenever you are experiencing fear of something, what's going to make it worse is to resist it.

I guess you are not afraid afraid of dreaming that you are in school, but you don't want it to happen so in a way it is a fear of an experience.

When I started out with lucid dreaming and was still in school, all I wanted was to experience weird dreams that would make it easier to realize that I was dreaming. Or atleast experience some cool non-lucid adventure since my dreams were more vivid. But I all dreamt about was my boring school...
So I was just like you annoyed that I dreamt about my school. Although since I was also focused on dream sign practise I thought well why not just use a mantra that says "I am in my school and I am dreaming!", the first night I was actually dreaming of my school and got a short lucid dream.

But the next nights. SCHOOL GONE! And I have never dreamt about my school since then.

I used to think that what my conscious mind thinks is totally reversed by my subconscious mind, although now I know that the reason I never dreamt about my school again was because it was a fear and I resisted it and therefore I got that experience to learn to control that fear. And when I accepted the idea but at the same time intended that I wanted to be aware of my school dream but also after that not really have school dreams, but have cool adventures instead, this intent with fear erased made that possible. So whenever you experience something annoying or some fear, don't resist it because the problem doesn't really lie in the object of bothersome or fear, it's actually in the feeling of bother and fear itself.

Like a person who are afraid of walking into a room with a small spider inside, is the problem really the spider or the fear itself?

So try to just accept it, and when you do, it will no longer be a problem and hence not bother you.

Just like thoughts in meditaiton, scratches during WILD, dryspells in lucid dreaming practise, girls rejecting you when you do pick up etc.