Thread: I dont want to lucid dream

Interesting issue. One thing, make up your mind now, do you want to control your lucids, or lose your lucids? 'Cause to control them, it takes practice and will require you to stay in them, which obviously won't go well with trying to lose them.

1) To practice controlling them, do as M. said above, expect things to happen. Ever watched the movie 'The Matrix'? It is exactly like that. If you haven't seen it, basically everything you strongly believe will happen (whether good or bad) will happen. It is all in your brain so it is easy to manipulate whether on purpose or on accident. It just takes practice and determination to build this confidence. The next time something scary occurs, try to make yourself laugh as if it was something silly (while still in the dream) and confront the issue in a friendly manner asking it to change to something else. Expect it to agree, since after all you asked nicely and in a friendly way, and it should change without issue.

2) I can't really say how to "stop having lucids" but I can give you hints on how to fall out of lucidity. The big one here is that since lucidity is awareness of the dream state, you need to find a way to lose this awareness. Well this isn't all to hard, because your awareness is constantly shifting and if you don't put an effort into maintain a solid state of awareness (lucidity) then it will be lost. So to put it simply, while in the dream, don't pay attention to lucidity, just go along with the story as if it were real and you should lose lucidity relatively quickly. Waking up, of course, knocks you out of the dream state so you can re-enter without that awareness, but waking up every night is a pain so just practice losing this awareness. Hopefully your brain will get the hint and stop giving you lucids.

Anyway, hope one of these help you out. Personally, I would go for number 1 for multiple reasons. Of course, there is the excitement of being able to control your dreams, but also it seems to be an easier method. Simply asking the dream to change, I think, is an easier concept to handle than trying to trick yourself into forgetting something (that it is a dream). Also, option 1 can help you deal with nightmares in general as well.

EDIT: People, we don't need to hear "WHY DON'T YOU WANT TO BE LUCID?!?" in this topic, as will inevitably happen multiple times. The reason was given, and it is valid. Of course we are more likely to disagree as this is a LUCID DREAMING forum, but it gets annoying hearing it every other post. Sorry, a personal peeve, d'now if the topic starter shares it.