OBE / Lucid - Shadow Creatures

**mezzz** · 08-11-2022 11:57 AM

Hello all,

This is my first post here, but I am by no means new to Lucid dreaming.

First a brief intro. I am in my late 20s and have been lucid dreaming since I can remember. As a child I would simply pinch myself in my dream to wake up when I was bored or didnt like the narrative. Over time I learned how to control my dreams and can enter a lucid state (wake induced) at will if I wake myself up around 3 a.m in the morning. I have logged 100s of lucid dreams and have had many more.

However I have become fearful of wake induced lucid dreaming and looking for other experienced lucid dreamers for help.

The technique I self-discovered to enter the lucid state is as follows:
I wake up around 2-4am, either with an alarm or naturally.
I slowly let my mind wander and relax, imagining I am rocking side to side. My left shoulder trying to roll over my right and then the left, and so on. Most importantly I have to lock my hand together above my head, under the pillow and be sleeping on my side. Soon enough I will start to have hypnogoic halluciantions, that range from people entering the room, people talking, footsteps, pressure on the bed, loud buzzing/vibrations, flashes...etc.. usually frightening, but I have to remain calm for it to work.
Usually within a couple minutes of me imagining the rocking, I will start to experience the real sensation of rocking, which increases until the point I start to roll sideways and fall out of my bed. I stand up and I am usually in a slightly different version of my room. My body is not always still in the bed and I sometime have to do some checks to verify it worked as it is so realistic.

This is when the horror usually begins.

When I enter the dream this way, there is ALWAYS a presence in the room with me. My room is always dark, no lights work, and I do not have the power I have to usually control my surroundings. This presence usually assumes the from of a shadow figure and usually attacks me. It ranges from shadow creatures, to small imps/men and even a creepy woman. I usually jump out of the window, or through a wall as i can pass through solid medium in my dream and fly away into another area of the dream. Sometimes I destroy them by imagining I am more powerful and ripping them to pieces. Other times I confront them asking what they are doing, to be met with laughter or random answers.

Nonetheless I want to reach out here to others that have experienced similar things and resolved them. I love lucid dreaming and I have stopped because of the frightening experiences both in the process of entering a dream and once I roll out of my body.

Thank you

**DarkestDarkness** · 08-12-2022 01:54 AM

Hello and welcome to the forum.

It sounds like you've been LDing more or less consistently for quite some time, though am I understanding correctly in that these encounters have only been an issue recently?

From what you said I'm not sure if you have or not; have you tried non-confrontational approaches too? What I'm thinking about is that for example you said you confront the DC by asking them what they're doing, an action which at this point for you may likely carry with it a factor of natural fear, which could be unintentionally biasing you toward having a negative or uncooperative response from them in the first place. To some degree, for most people, if you start expecting a confrontation or negative situation, it's more likely to make itself that way.

It's also not clear to me whether you are trying to set any intents around this before you transition back into dreaming while still awake. When you try this lately, are you getting into any pattern of thoughts as you go through your process?