I used to make it a routine to follow standard DILD methods such as affirmations and reality checks, but I never stuck with it long enough to see results. I think I just got tired of it and doubted my ability for success.
Give DILD another try. Here is a tutorial you may not have read yet. Collection of techniques for DILD.
Can you experience SP somehow after you awake from a DILD, or is that very unlikely? (this is a stupid question because I'm aware that SP is something that is normal, safe, and our bodies go through it every night but we're not aware of it)
If you don't experience SP when you go to sleep normally, (you have a disorder), you are quite unlikely to experience it during WILDing.
What you may/may not experience are some normal sensations of your body falling asleep. These sensations were incorrectly labeled SP. True SP is when you can't move no matter what.
So these sensations and hallucinations (HH) may get scary, mostly because you have no idea what's going on. But if you read this, they will not surprise you and you will be able to stay calm. They don't last long and a lucid dream is a great revard you will get after HH are over. More about different sensations you may/may not get.
Secondly, are scary dream experiences going to be brought on by lucid dreaming? Because if I'm not lucid and I have a scary dream, then it's just a normal nightmare. But if I am lucid in a dream and something scary comes about, shouldn't I be calm and rational and understand that I am the one in control and that I cannot be harmed
If you lucid dream turns scary, you just simply change it. You don't have this option in regular nightmare. But in LD, you can make the scary disappear just by waving your arm, or by changing the dreamscene.
It is advisable to go to bed with happy thought. Dreams are made by thoughts, so if you scared, have dark thought, watched a horror movie before bed, all those can reflect in your dreams. Watch something pleasant. Find something nice on youtube and then keep those images in your mind as falling asleep.
Why is it that I feel like I should avoid lucid dreaming just because I have let my fears get the better of me?
I was also scared, really didn't want to have a scary lucid or scary HH. None of them happened for me. As soon as I get lucid, all fears are out the window, as if they never existed. It's a different world out there. Just think positivelly, you will be ok. If despite everything, a unpleasant thought creeps in while you trying to WILD, you can interrupt the process and return to it later or next night.
I really don't want to waste more experienced lucid dreamers' time with my own problems, but I just wondered if anyone here has ever felt even a single bit like me. Thank you all so much!
It's not a waste of time, don't worry. We all have different hang-ups and DV is the best place to ask for help in sorting them out. So just go for it. If you had just one lucid, you will know that you have nothing to worry about. Start with MILD/DILD and go from there. Happy dreams
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