Dream Control in lucid nightmares

[CDR]

The most common way for me to get lucid is during a nightmare when I realize it's way to whacky, I don't even need to RC I just realize it and I have a few second before the monster or whatever gets me, once it gets me I'm screwed. Any tips on how I can totally change the enviorment into something happy in a matter of seconds?

[Clairity]

The recommendations that I've read from other members is to simply turn and face your attacker and either make friends with it, laugh at it, ask it what it wants, shoot fireballs at it from your palms or simply demand that it vanish or go away.

[The Cusp]

I recommend turning your back on it and putting it out of your mind completely. The dream needs your attention for anything to exist, so if you can put the baddies out of your mind, they should disappear. Of course my first instinct is to smash them with lucid powers. Fun, but not very productive. The more attention I focus on them in fighting, the stronger they get! Which I don't really mind if I'm lucid.

[Immaterium]

i usually just turn round to the nightmare character and shove a knife in their gut. some may say that's just gruesome, but if they can deal it they can take it, lol

[CDR]

Well, most of the monsters in my dreams are immortal. I tried last night just ignoring them, it took away their deadlyness and ability to cause pain, but as the scenario changed there still were monsters, and after a while of doing nothing and not really doing anything except stalling I just decided to wake myself up. I really need to learn how to change the scenario, I can never do that even in regular lucid dreams...

[Naiya]

Nightmares one of the things that made it easy to become lucid in the first place. It was always obvious that I was having a nightmare--I never have ones set in my daily life, they're always pretty out there--so I always became lucid in them. Usually I just destroy most dream adversaries, but a few are just impossible to deal with. I've tried that dream therapy stuff where you talk to them, I've tried fighting them with every ounce of me believing that I would not fail to defeat them, I've tried ignoring them ("Oh, I forgot she's ignoring me tonight. Hey Naiya! Naiya. Naiya. Naiya. Okay, I guess you won't mind if I electrocute you, then."), I've tried asking/doing what they want. My guess is, a few people's subconscious' just don't give a shit HOW lucid you are; they're not going to back down for anything if they want to be known. Either that or (if you could believe it) maybe some DCs just exist outside of the dreamer's mind. Who knows. Lucid dreaming is not a "cure" for nightmares, imo and in my experience. You have nightmares and dream adversaries for a reason. Making it disappear doesn't get rid of the problem, it just gets rid of the only clue you have about the problem.

[CDR]

That sounds really reasonable. I never thought of that, that maybe a nightmare is a different form of dream, one that you can't escape unless you wake up. But still sometimes my nightmares start from a regular dream. I dreamt I was in school and as I was walking home I was at someone elses house, and as I walked out there was a running guy and I asked myself if he was following me, and just because of that I got hunted down and itr was a nightmare.

[WolfTsunade]

I had a LD a couple of nights ago that turned into a nightmare. Okay, my sister and I have always shared a room(I really need my own room Im turning 16 this year seriously!). But anyway I suddenly was in my room and it was night so I planned on going to the window on my sister's side of the room so I can draw a sun on it. She was asleep in the bed and then she woke up. She started looking at me in a weird way and started doing seizure-like movements. That really scared me then she started attacking me. Ok here comes the stupid part...I went to my bed and started hiding under the covers! I don't know why I did that, she started jumping on me and I started yelling wake up...then I woke up. I could of done something else but I hid.... Anyway I don't know what else I would've done because I can't bring myself to attack my sister, even if it was a dream. But oh well....