Thread: Can you explain this Lucid Nightmare?

Hello, so tonight I have had a very weird Lucid Nightmare. I've never had this before and I really don't know how it happened. So I'd like mostly advice on how to handle this next time (if ever) or some explanations on why it happened.

The dream started out as I was in a restaurant with 2 friends, we wanted to eat a sandwich but there wasn't any in the resto so we decided to go out. I went to take a piss and I picked up my stuff and went out the door too. I began searching for my friends outside the resto but didn't find them. I remember there were at least 3 group of people whom I've never seen in my life, wave in my direction as if they knew me. Then I realized I was dreaming. Somehow very quickly it transformed into nightmare. I must add that the whole setting of the dream from this point to finish was nightmarish and dark.
I maybe have thought inconsciously, even though of course I didn't want to; but somehow a 'demon' like figure appeared. But as I knew I controlled the dream I really wasn't afraid so I went up to him and blasted him off with a fireball from my hands. It disappeared but I was thinking to myself that he didn't die. Then I continued and a little time after I saw an old man. It seems I've already seen him (never in real life though) and went up to him. He picked me up to give me a hug. Then I thought, just for a second, what if this is the demon and I let him pick me up (how stupid of me to think that...) and of course it transformed into another negative entity, so I killed it. But then...

The dream continues and somehow I'm in a very very dark forest. I remember I was still lucid dreaming so I said aloud : let there be day ! (to have sun light through the forest). But nothing happened, I even visualised it but nothing happened. I then saw a little fox-like demon near a dark tree. I went up to him, thinking he caused this, I picked a sword made of light and prepared to hack him - I knew it was a negative creature, and this was my dream and I was conscious I could do whatever I wanted.
So I went through him with the sword but he disappeared. Then I stopped lucid dreaming and dreamt of something else I don't remember.

Then a very strange thing happened.
I woke up (but as you'll find out it was another dream) and I was feeling very uneasy, I was crying and I really felt like the demon from the other lucid dream had defeated me. Very strange! I found out that lots of blood was pouring from my nose and then from my mouth, and I felt as if it was still there somewhere, victorious. The blood was practically everywhere on my face. I went downstairs and found my mom sitting in a bar and she acted like it wasn't a big deal, that made me realise it was a dream (she would never act like this), and then I made myself woke up.

This was a very freaky experience and I have no idea why or how I had this, but in the future I don't want to have these and I'd like to have some advice on what to do next time or what you think about it. Moreover, it's easy to say 'don't think about a certain thing while dreaming', but as soon as you think of it even inconsciously, it can appear. Also, it seems to me very weird that I could not imagine it to be day - in a lucid dream. It is like I couldn't completely control my dream, and I was conscious.
Ty for reading!

The answer im gonna give u, is probably something u already know and are attempting to do. In my experience i find that lucid dreaming is an "skill", but so is dream control. To control your dream is in a way to trick your subconscious. So when u say "i wanna change this dream" your subconscious needs to follow, and here is the problem for a lot of people.

I know it's easy to say "Don't think it, but do it". But it's the best answer i have for you sadly. visualisation and saying it are good tools to change it, don't get me wrong on this. But in the end it's all about do u REALLY beleve it will happen? But dream control can be easy, or it can be hard depending on the lucid dream ur in and what u wanna change. It happens to all of us, sometimes things just doesn't go as you want it to go.

I think dream control is just about practice, hope this helps u out a bit. And again don't worry, it happens to everybody once in a while! Again u probably know this already.

Ty for your answer, yes your reply did somewhat help, and you are right about how the subconscious needs to follow, or else it will block the will even if conscious.
= believe anything is possible (eg Matrix )
On another note, maybe I wasn't fully lucid while dreaming which caused that I didn't think about how I could've done anything to get out of the dark ambiance of the dream (ex. teleport or fly away, etc).
Oh and did you already have similar experience where you couldn't change something in a dream?

Try and end the dream so that you wake up. Then you can either try enter another lucid dream or just sleep again. Obviously entering another lucid wouldn't be advisable if they all have these demons. But like Ekyu said, mastering dream control is your best bet.

By th way check out lucid dream chaining if you find waking yourself up helps. Hope this helped so you don't need to experience these nightmares again

Yep, ending the dream would've been the best. But I was thinking that as I was the master of the dream, there would be noone to stand in my way, so I wasn't even afraid.. But it seems this time the subconscious got the cake. I'll definately try getting out of there as soon as possible next time. (Seems every time I chose to stay it just got worse)

Have you tried stabilizing the dream in order to enhance control?

Nope, I haven't had a lucid since quite some time so I didn't think about it when I gained consciousness...

Take a look at this guide for Dream control, maybe you will find what you looking for there good luck!
Dream Control Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream ViewsDream Control Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Thanks :-)

I followed a link from that page :
dreamviews.com/f14/dream-control-complete-tutorial-38954/

And I find out something very helpful : if I was to meet some monster again, I would have to imagine funny clothes on it for example, then focus on the funny clothes - make the scene ridicolous : it would make the monster lose its power and it would change to something else. I could then go on with a completely different subject in the dream, losing focus of it.

What I did in the dream was, I tried too hard to force 'kill' the monster - while my subconscious said to me that it couldn't be killed, thus reappearing every time and even winning in the end. I didn't "go elsewhere" in my dream, or didn't try to change it, because I knew it couldn't be killed and I wanted it to (or more like afraid that it couldn't be killed), making my attention stay on it, which made ME create my own nightmare!

Also, the passive control is quite interesting, as I found when I destabilize it with superpowers 'simply because I'm dreaming' everything around becomes less vivid and more 'blurred'.

If anyone had a similar lucid nightmare, I hope this post helped.

Maybe when you noticed it was a dream you got kinda worried that you didn't know what would happen next. So, negative things occurred in your dream.