A little problem...

[Joram]

Hi folks, I've been having a problem in my LD's recently. Let me explain: I become lucid by counting fingers. I usually assure myself being lucid by the pinch nose RC. As im on a very high lucidity, the dream world looks incredibly realistic an more realistic than waking life. Here's the problem. My mind makes an automatic switch to waking life and tells me this is not a dream. I get scared, like really scared and i don't want to get out of my bed ( in the dream ). When im not in bed and somewhere else, im afraid of doing something like climbing a wall or spmething LD-related. We all know that mind setting when you stand on something high and look down and be like: ' no way i would jump this, i must be crazy. ' And this feeling is of course good, because you would simply kill yourself lol. However, i've had this feeling in a lot of lucids. Too afraid to do something crazy, because it doesn't seem safe for the real world. The dream world looks so realistic that my brain won't accept to do crazy things, because i will hurt myself or mess up my life. I hope you understand my problem, because its annoying AF. I can't do something exciting because of this feeling. I hope someone can tell me whats going on here and how to get rid of this feeling. Thanks alot..

[Astaroth]

Hum, that has never happened to me, but I can tell that you only have those feelings of fear and insecurity when you are dreaming, right? I mean, in dreams you're not completely sure that you're dreaming, but if you were about to jump from a 2000ft building in real life you would have no doubt of what's real and what's not, I guess. The thing is that I don't really know how to avoid that, but what I would do is perform a RC immediately before doing something that you find risky or scary, so you be sure that that environment is not real and try to convince your mind. Tbh you will be scared even if you know that you're dreaming. Just do it and sooner or later the feeling will disappear. Good luck!

[Joram]

Thansk for the tip! I will do a RC right before i will do something crazy so my mind gets convinced its safe to try.And yes i think i'll get used to do crazy things the more i do them. I hope my mind will get convinced after some time!