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[Moonbeam]

Last night I had a nightmare. For a long time, since I was a kid, I have been able to wake myself up when a dream got too scary. This time I started to wake up, but in the nanosecond before I did, my lucid training kicked in and I realized I did not want to waste an opportunity, so I stopped myself from waking up by thinking, "go to a better place", and I did. The difference between NILD and DILD is in a nightmare I realize it is a dream and I instantaneously try to get out of it by waking up, instead of realizing it is a dream and becoming lucid and using that information to make the dream better. This time I was very happy to stay asleep and change the dream to a better one in that instant before waking, but really after I had started the process of waking and was already out of the bad dream. I'm sure other people wake themselves up from nightmares too. Thought this might be something to try, especially if you do it a lot. Maybe a subtle difference from DILD but I think people who do this will know what I mean.

[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.

[Moonbeam]

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. [/b] 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....

[Hellfire]

Do any dreams really have conclusions? I can't remember right now.... [/b] 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.

[Shadow Dreamer]

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

[Moonbeam]

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.

[A Humble Sinner]

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.

[Redrivertears]

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-

[Moonbeam]

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.

[Abra]

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!

[randomdreamer]

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