Starting to be afraid of LD and need help with difficult character

**nyrawake** · 03-23-2013 06:20 AM

I've been trying to get a hold on lucid dreaming, specifically WILD, for a while now after about a 2 years off and I thought that it was all coming together. The thing is that recently whenever I enter a dream it starts exactly where I left off in the waking world. I'm in my bedroom in bed. The room is pitch dark and when I get up to turn on the lights they won't.
The thing that's getting to me is that every time there is something in the house with me and whatever it is isn't friendly. The first few times I saw a figure in the shadows as I left the house, but recently it's gotten more aggressive. The forth to last it chased me out of house. I finally saw it and it seemed to be really enjoying it. The third to last I got out to the kitchen and hid while it looked around like it was purposely hunting me. The second to last I got outside and tried calling it out into the light where I'd be less freaked out and in more control. When it didn't come I tried summoning it but nothing happened so I started belting out threats and it finally showed. It was pissed, it remarked the audacity of me summoning something like him and came straight at me. I wanted to confront it but my flee instinct kicked in and I woke myself up. Then this afternoon I didn't even have time to get out of my bed. I didn't even know I was asleep. I saw a shadow behind me and figured my dad was just coming to get me up but when I turned around it jumped on my chest and raised a knife. Not knowing I was asleep I was of course terrified. I realized I was asleep when I saw it. The shock woke me up. I've tried controlling where I end up when I start the dream and I just end up waking myself up. I tried spinning once and it worked but now it has stopped.
I know I shouldn't be afraid but it's not so easy when you're in a dark house, unable to turn on any lights and you know that something is just watching you. I thought it was my fear creating it, like because I was expecting something bad, but today this thing showed up even when I wasn't expecting it. Has anyone had similar experiences and how the heck did you get rid of it.
I mean could this be some weird more complex form of sleep paralysis that people usually have, because in these dreams I'm totally mobile?

**Scionox** · 03-23-2013 08:57 AM

Dream where you wake up where you fell asleep in waking world is called false awakening and it is actually quite normal experience for lucid dreamers, especially for those who use WILD, that's why doing reality check every time you wake up is important.

The fact that it was showing when you weren't expecting it don't means that it's not your fear, it's same fear, but on subconscious level.
If you don't like dark, try expecting sun to come up, believe it's the daytime. Remember that it's your dream, and you are in control of it, you can easily defeat that thing, or you could try communicate instead and maybe to ask it why it's chasing you.

Also it has nothing to do with sleep paralysis, SP happens in NREM and you can't move during it, also it's really rare, happens only once or twice if at all, unless you have sleep disorder with same name.

Good luck with defeating your fears one way or another, remember, you can do it because it's your dream!

**paigeyemps** · 03-24-2013 09:47 PM

I agree with checker, your fears may manifest in the subconscious level so you could still dream about them unexpectedly. You could try meditating before bed to relax your mind and it might help give you more pleasant dreams. If you find yourself confronted with the creature, the best thing is always to face it and ask what i wants. If you feel the need to get away but cant, try to imagine yourself sinking into the bed or wherever you are. That usually helps me.

Good luck

**acillis** · 04-02-2013 02:24 AM

sounds like you got a arch nemesis, he'll teach you if you only watch him... if you truly want to rid your self of him you must beat him, use his own techniques against him, could you post the outcomes here? or further experience... i like these types of dreams lol