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.
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