Thread: why not try a NILD (nitemare induced LD)...

hey all. i just was thinking how having a nitemare is an easy way to become lucid, why not just make urself have a nitemare and boom, u'll become lucid. i mean it seems simple enough to work. i can only think of 2 problems that could occur while trying it: #1-You won't have a nitemare. & #2-You won't become lucid and just have the nitemare, and we kno that those arn't fun. i kno whenever i eat something spicy, i always have a nitemare. so i can basicly get around problem #1 without any trouble. what do u guys (and girls) think?

That's so wierd. I had my first nightmare in about a year the other night. I became pretty scared and mad, and started to realize that this certain scenerio could never happen (getting chased by cars, getting in fights, government men in biohazard suits). I then became lucid.

I know for sure now that every time that I have a nightmare, I will become lucid.

that wouldnt work for me, I wake up as soon as anything scary happens. Like, ill turn around and see some kinda horrible face and boom! I wake up.
The most sure fire way for me to get nightmares to is to be extremely hot whilst im asleep.

I haven't had a nightmare since I was little. Right now, all my dreams are either normal ( ) , bizzare ( ), or disturbing ( )

I don't think it would work for me because in all my dreams I usually accept everything around me as reality, even if it is the most bizzare thing imaginable.

It could work if their is a common dreamsign in your nightmare. Then, you can do a reality check when you see it and become lucid .

Nightmares of being attacked are near foolproof dreamsigns for me too
Unfortunately, I don't often have them
Or they are non-violent nightmares

Spicy food doesn't work for me either
Perhaps some ominous scary sounds beside the bed?

Originally posted by Placebo
Spicy food doesn't work for me either
Perhaps some ominous scary sounds beside the bed?

try a budgerigar they make wierd sounds when cranky

FL. -Getting fuzzier every day.

Indeed. I have been Lucid dreaming for three years now and have had only one Bad dream that I did not become Lucid. I am fortunate I guess. For whatever reason whenever I am having a bad dream I become aware that I am dreaming. Therefore becoming Lucid and then changing the scenario.

Well, I'd like to try this, but I haven't had a nightmare since I was six...
Whenever I have people chase me or try to kill me in my dreams nowadays (*chuckle*: 'nowadays'...what a funny word!) I just start laughing and beat them all up. They've gone from worst to near the best...Anyways, isn't this just Dream Sign Lucidity? Nightmares could be considered a DS, since they're really just an irrational placement of objects/creatures/people who happen to scare the dreamer.

Yea, that happens to me, but I never ever have nightmares. They do result in lucid dreams though. Perhaps I should try to eat some spicy food, like you said.

Originally posted by Je33icaLy88
I haven't had a nightmare since I was little. Right now, all my dreams are either normal ( ) , bizzare ( ), or disturbing ( ) .

Wouldn't disturing be considered a nightmare?

not for her, but for us the very mention of one of the dreams we would all end up soiled somehow