Thread: Really want to lucid dream, but too scared.

Hi there, and welcome to DV!

1) It does not matter if you prefer it to waking life. You can have great fun while sleeping, but you will wake up, and interact with the real world just the same.

2)I can not picture this happening. We learn to "Reality Check" or RC as part of the process. There are clear distinctions between Dream and wake. While in a dream it may be hard to tell you are dreaming, in waking it is easy to tell you are not dreaming.

3)Perhaps you may spend an extra couple hours in bed on your days off, but that is no big deal.

4) The only way to master LDing is through increasing your awareness while awake. I think most practiced LDers are more involved with waking life than before they got in to lucid dreaming.

5) exactly what Memm said.

Originally Posted by sivason

Hi there, and welcome to DV!4) The only way to master LDing is through increasing your awareness while awake. I think most practiced LDers are more involved with waking life than before they got in to lucid dreaming.

Yup, this is a big incentive for me. I've worked quite a bit in recent years becoming more aware and present. Something piqued my interest in LDs a few weeks back and I recognize a synergy between some LD practices and contemplative/meditative practices. It just 'feels' like a natural fit.

Also there's the fact dreams are experience that for most people never rise to conscious awareness except after the fact. Seems to me being lucid in a dream is an addition to, not a subtraction from, one's life.