Thread: Irrational fear.

There is a strange thing in my dreams sometimes; Uncontrolled irrational fear of nothing. Usually I love nightmares because I become lucid and even if not I wake up thinking what a cool dream. But sometimes there is this fear of something like just fear without any reason when I wake up from that I'm actually a bit uncomfortable on going back to sleep.

Recently I had several dreams with this feeling. In one an unknown force was opening locked doors for me I walked trough them but I had this fear of the force that helped me. In another I was in my room and my lightbulb went out and I was just scared to death of my room. And the most recent: A hand from the window. I walk with fear to see the hand and it climbs to the side out of my view.

It's pure fear and it's much more scary than getting chased killed or whatever in a dream. It feels as if something is haunting you. When I wake up it's hard to shake of this feeling with logical thinking.

I discussed this with my friend who is also into lucid dreaming and he told me that this is indeed the strongest fear, it's the pure feeling. You don't even know why you are scared. You can't see or understand what's wrong but you're scared to death.

I was wondering if anyone knows what I am talking about.

I hate talking like this, but o'well.
At the core of all matter lies energy, and our human body is no different.

It’s my belief that our dream bodies have an energy field that interacts with other dream entities (guides) or strange dreamscapes, or our dream body is on steady alert while dreaming causing the feeling closest to fear in our emontional center. I have found dream guides will present themselves but hide from view.
That energy they give off resonates and interacts and affects our emotional center (especially emotion of fear)

There have been times when I wake up too wondering why I felt so fearful in the dream logically, only I am sure I knew why while I was still in the dream.

Try and summon the felling of love/compassion. That emotion when triggered (or remembered) will overcome the fear feeling and allow you to enjoy/befriend the force that may be trying to help you go through new doors and new experiences.

I don't know about dream guides and emotions I might try to summon something to test it in a lucid dream. But I think some hormone or chemical is released inside my brain when this happens. So that's why I still feel scared when I wake up. I think it's kinda like what happens to some people during SP. I never really had SP only "Sleep Weakness"

I know the feeling. I get dreams like that in spurts. They are not scarry nightmares, they are just normal dreams that I feel this aweful sense of terror in for some reason.

It's similar to what people experience in Sleep Paralysis. You are afraid for some unknown reason, so your brain invents something to explain it away. You are not scared of the hallucination, you are hallucinating because you are scared. Some people don't get that distinction.

I still can't figure out where the fear comes from in the first place. I can't buy into the whole 'outside force' theory. I don't discount it, I just haven't had the experiences to make me take that phenomenal leap to the improbable. I have always thought that it feels like some natural chemical response in you body. Something about the physiology of sleep, and the chemicals in your blood stream when your body shuts down.

I think I read this article about this a while ago. I have the full article somewhere, I'm just too disorganized to pull it up.

The victims of sleep paralysis commonly experience intense anxiety or fear. This is often explained as a secondary symptom due to the victims’ perception of their situations. However, the amygdaloid complex, which is known to be crucial for processing biologically relevant stimuli, particularly signaling fear, was recently found to be more activated during rapid eye movement sleep. The author argues that this activation automatically produces negative emotions during the episodes of sleep paralysis. If the activated amygdaloid complex is the common feature between ordinary dreams and sleep paralysis, the emotions experienced in dreams should be disproportionately distributed in the negative direction. Several controversies over the related issues are also briefly reviewed.