Stress?

[Imp]

I've only had four lucid dreams before. Two were in my childhood, and the other two were after I discovered this website. The strange thing is, both times I had these LD's (the recent ones), I wasn't trying to get them, and I was also very stressed at the time. Is there any possible link between the stress and me getting LD's, or not?

[wasup]

That is really, really weird. Every other case I've heard is that stress entirely HINDERS lucid dreaming. Could you elaborate on what type of stress that you were getting? Where was it coming from, what you felt like, etc. Also, before you consider some sort of link... think about this... How OFTEN are you stressed? Because if say, you are stressed however much very often, and you happened to have a lucid dream during one of those stressed out moments, then you might forget about all those times you were stressed and DIDN'T lucid dream and only think about the times you were stressed and DID have a lucid dream. Understand?

[LucidDreamGod]

I get where your coming from, sometimes I feel very stressed like mental stress and I got like a head ache but it's deeper into my thought proccess, and I tend to feel uncomfterbal which keeps me more aware, which may cause me to have a lucid dream, usualy a very crappy one. also the more stress them ore you awaken throughout the night which gives the wake back to bed effect, last night I woke up and felt my mind was much diffrent then usual maybe I was a bit asleep but it felt like My one mission in the whole world was to do a certain something but I forgot what it was might have been an ld, because I had one but it was kind of fake.

[Imp]

That is really, really weird. Every other case I've heard is that stress entirely HINDERS lucid dreaming. Could you elaborate on what type of stress that you were getting? Where was it coming from, what you felt like, etc.[/b] Well I don't really want to go into the reasons (there were actual reasons, I wasn't just acting like an emo), but both times I was feeling a sort of hopelessness and despair. The sort of feeling that I couldn't do anything to better the situation I was in (and that it wasn't going to ever change.) It was also kind of hard to get to sleep, and when I became lucid, there wasn't really anything I wanted to do because I wouldn't enjoy it. Also, before you consider some sort of link... think about this... How OFTEN are you stressed? Because if say, you are stressed however much very often, and you happened to have a lucid dream during one of those stressed out moments, then you might forget about all those times you were stressed and DIDN'T lucid dream and only think about the times you were stressed and DID have a lucid dream. Understand?[/b] I'm not stressed very often - and I guess that is possible that I only remembered because I was stressed. I get where your coming from, sometimes I feel very stressed like mental stress and I got like a head ache but it's deeper into my thought proccess, and I tend to feel uncomfterbal which keeps me more aware, which may cause me to have a lucid dream, usualy a very crappy one.[/b] Yeah, I think I might have had them in the first place because I was so uncomfortable I was aware. I also didn't enjoy these dreams. And I was lucid at the beginning of both dreams. also the more stress them ore you awaken throughout the night which gives the wake back to bed effect[/b] That's true now that I think about it. That might explain it.