loud voices disrupt my lucidity.

Lately i have been experiencing a lot of lucid dreams. I do not do any sort of mantra during the day but simply do some concious breathing excercises and try and be "awake" during the daytime. In my dreams i know i am lucid, and can hear really loud aggressive voices in my head, the scare me out of being completley lucid, to being just semi lucid? any one have some advice, (Btw) often i rub my hands together and do breathing in order to stabalaize the dream, and the dream becomes a little brighter, but then the voices attack and change my dream.

Put on your earplugs!

I get something similar to this every so often. It is definitely a pain, but I have found one thing that makes it easy (and fun!) to deal with. What I find works is you have to alter your own self in the image and give yourself abilities to combat these voices. then, try to turn the voices (which I am guessing seem to come out of nowhere) into physical forms (monsters if you will) and you can combat them (it is actually really fun). You can also, after you get a bit of practice at this, change these depictions of the voices into something more innocuous (nothing is funnier than when a monster you just turned into a potato is insulting you or threatening you/trying to attack you) and with a bit more practice you can actually manipulate the behavior or attitudes of the monsters. In one of mine i actually pitted one against another....it was rather amusing to watch actually :evil:.

Good luck and I hope this helps!

Thank you Yozy and silver 2k, i appreciate your advice and will give this a shot,, i am going going to turn them into big dragons then i will slaya them, and afterwards bang the princess.

I'm unsure if you meant that the voices were real? or dream voices? Last night I had some of the best success I've ever had, which is saying a lot. I've been working for a couple years and have excellent dream recall, just scarce lucidity and little dream control. I also tend to get over excited and wake up prematurely. The usual. But last night, around 3:30am (my hardcore time for lucidity, thus my handle) every time I dozed off I'd imagine I heard the carport door opening, "SCREECH" and I'd wake up. False alarm. No one coming in. Alone in bed. This went on several times and I just figured it was some weird dream phenom, so I said to myself: "When I hear the front door opening, I will know I am dreaming and I will become lucid." It freaking worked! I still was frustrated with lack of control, but at least I had numerous attempts to practice last night! That's always been my shortcoming: my lucidity is always too short for me to practice control. But last night I kept tapping that "door opening" sound I kept hearing upon drifting off. Guess what? It wasn't a dreamed sound. I'd forgotten to close the upstairs doggie door and my mutt kept going in and out the door! Fantastic! A noisome and sleepless doggie helped me achieve greater lucid success last night than I've ever had.

My bottom line: unless the voices are simply TOO loud, try and use them to bring about lucidity. If the voices are real (like family or neighbors or such) then try earplugs. I have to use them sometimes (snoring partner). Happy dreaming!

thank you for your response 330 am (hard core dream time) haha, I meant voices in my head, like its as if someone came in my brain and started yelling at me, it was so loud i realized h,, this must be a dream like you said. I like the idea of taking these voices like yozy and you have said, to use them to your advantage. (i have a similar problem as you in getting to excited and waking up) yesterday i started jumping for joy like i was in freaking disney land and skipping merrily across the room, i went to a dream character and said "hey guess what man your in my dream? ISnt that cool" the dream character just shook his head walked away and i woke up. I felt hella dissed

Whitedreams, I've totally done that same thing: ran up to someone and said, "Hey, you're in my dream! Cool!" I've also stood outside my boyhood home and hollered for my little brother to come out and play. That actually worked. But, again, the excitement thing... ruined it.

My bad news is that after that one great night - nada. I developed a bad head cold and my sleep is totally tore up now. I'll be glad to get over it and get back to regular sleep patterns. So far it's been: go to work, get really sick, come home and crash, sweat and chill all night, wake up and go back to work. Not much good dreaming going on at all. Gonna try and sleep it off this weekend. Good look with the loudmouths!