Lucid Dreams Auto-Transforms into Nightmares

So I've been able to manipulate and remain conscious within my dreams when I was 13. I'm 19 now. Don't know what triggered the ability, my overflowing imagination probably. One of the things I did conscious was trying to confirm the idea that you can't turn on and off lights in dreams, and I could. I lucid dream by simply having a mindset of being conscious within dreams before sleeping. I often did it when I was 13 but I stopped when there was this moment where every-time I achieved awareness in dreams, "dark things" appeared and started talking to me. I probably "made" these "demonic" things. It also accompanies the idea that I wasn't so "free" after all. From then on, I grew less interested in doing random stuff in dreams and then stopped(within the same year).

Since then, Lucid dreaming happens on occasions but this time they happen without my will, I just gain awareness randomly. And now, I'm interested in doing this stuff again. Problem is that I can't help associating consciousness with demons. If a lucid dream happened by "accident" though, I have more time before demons show up. But if I initiated lucidity by will, it's auto-demon. I guess the idea of "demons" came from being conditioned by religion and mythical stuff since childhood. My family was very superstitious back then. Also, I enter the "half-sleep" state(sleep paralysis) a lot as well.

So do you have any advice to remove this demon... "idea"?

You could just try to convince your self that it won't happen somehow, or try to use dream control to take care of it, if you can(well, you can, if you believe you can).

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Originally Posted by lefty97

You could just try to convince your self that it won't happen somehow, or try to use dream control to take care of it, if you can(well, you can, if you believe you can).

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I think that method will only induce a negative effect. It's like when you try not to think about something, you'll end up thinking about it.

I also can't control it. It's like an instinctive creation.

Keep in mind that even just a second of fear will trigger a nightmare. What I would suggest is listening to bineural beats to help you relax for 30-45 minutes before you go to bed to help relax and clear your mind. Depending on your phone (If you have iOS or Android) you could download a whole variety of applications which will help you find some beats to listen to. If not, you could always use Youtube :). Good luck!

Just a suggestion?
If you're lucid.
Then repeat to yourself "I am the master of my dreams, this is a dream, I control it! Nothing can hurt me, Demons wil NOT appear"
If they still show up, use your "powers" Or just confront them and talk to them?

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Originally Posted by Castles

Keep in mind that even just a second of fear will trigger a nightmare. What I would suggest is listening to bineural beats to help you relax for 30-45 minutes before you go to bed to help relax and clear your mind. Depending on your phone (If you have iOS or Android) you could download a whole variety of applications which will help you find some beats to listen to. If not, you could always use Youtube :). Good luck!

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Hey thanks. I will definitely try this.

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Originally Posted by yuppie11975

Just a suggestion?
If you're lucid.
Then repeat to yourself "I am the master of my dreams, this is a dream, I control it! Nothing can hurt me, Demons wil NOT appear"
If they still show up, use your "powers" Or just confront them and talk to them?

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Good idea. maybe I'll also try just laughing at them.

This happened to me too here. UFOs started coming down and I began to feel a sense of fear right as I started lucid dreaming.
My solution: I turned them into unicorns.

Basically - If your scared of something in your dream, you have full control over it, so turn it into something ridiculous that wouldn't make you scared.