insanity and lucid dreaming

**Solar** · 02-07-2013 02:53 PM

how do I snap out of it? I guess I should have realized how dangerous this was for me the first couple of times I had lucid dreams. I was awake but dreaming and the more it happened I started questioning how real reality was, I convinced myself that dreams were just as real. My dream characters are driving me insane also, it feels like it's a whole other reality and they want me to stay there or are manipulating the fact that I have woken up... It is scary and I try to remind myself that it's just a dream but it doesn't help the fact that I have 'woken up' so to say.... I just want to stop dreaming completely now.
I feel this is just because my dreams have always been extremely vivid and I fear losing control so when I started questioning how real they are it kind of just created a conflict in my mind and the dreams I've been having are metaphors of that conflict.

I just don't know what to do. I try to just relax and well my last lucid dream didn't seem that conflicting so maybe I'm making progress?? Idk.. Does anyone have any advice or anything??? Any advice outside of dreaming?? thanks for reading anyhow..

**SystematicAlec** · 02-07-2013 06:19 PM

Dreams are a mirror image of this world created by your subconscious while conscious. it is as real as you live your life but real or not its all the same to me as long as I exist in it.

**ShadowCloud** · 02-07-2013 06:29 PM

This is an exert from "The World of Lucid Dreaming" Hope this helps

Q. I am afraid that if I learn to induce lucid dreams, all my dreams will become lucid. Then
what will I do?
A. The philosopher P. D. Ouspensky experienced conflicting emotions regarding “half-dream
states, “ as he called lucid dreams: “The first sensation they produced was one of astonishment.
I expected to find one thing and found another. The next was a feeling of extraordi-nary joy
which the ‘half-dream states, ‘ and the possibil-ity of seeing and understanding things in quite a
new way, gave me. And the third was a certain fear of them, because I very soon noticed that if
I let them take their own course they would begin to grow and expand and encroach both upon
sleep and upon the waking state.”
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I experienced exactly the same fear when I first began attempting to induce lucid dreams. My
efforts were soon met with impressive success; after a few months, I was having more and more
lucid dreams at what suddenly seemed an alarmingly rapid rate of increase. I became afraid that
I wouldn’t be able to control the process: “What if all my dreams become lucid? I’m not wise
enough to consciously direct all of my dreams. What if I make mistakes?” And so on.
However, I found that the moment I entertained this worrisome line of thinking, I stopped
having lucid dreams. Upon calm reflection, I realized that without my consent there was really
very little chance that all my dreams would become lucid. As both Ouspensky and I had
forgotten, lucid dreaming takes effort. Lucid dreams occur only rarely unless you go to sleep
with the delib-erate and definite intention to become conscious, or lu-cid, in your dreams. Thus,
I understood that I would be able to regulate (and limit, if necessary) the frequency of my lucid
dreams. In fact, after a decade of experience with more than a thousand lucid dreams, I rarely
have more than a few per month unless I have a conscious desire to have more.