Thread: $th Lucid Dream... Fight or flight fear response?

I had my 4th lucid dream while napping yesterday... hit right at 90 minutes (shocker i know) and the dream was probably about 15 minutes long and I was lucid for about 3 minutes of it and vividly aware for the rest of the time. Without getting too much into it, I found myself in a situation involving 2 other men that i didn't want to be in (One was a police officer and the other was a crazy guy). I wasn't totally sure if i was dreaming at the moment, but I believed with all my being that I could fly away and sure enough i did. I began to levitate in the sky and they looked up at me dumbfounded as i was doing it. It was an amazing feeling (got about 500 feet up).

There was a moderately intense fear response in the dream to the police officer and the crazy guy and I find it interesting that instead of testing my dream state by punching them out of the way or morphing them into something else (more of a fight response), I chose to escape out of the situation by flying away (flight response). At that point of choosing to fly away, I wasn't fully lucid so my amygdala was probably the main portion of my brain in control hence the decision to fly away me thinks... after that when I became completely lucid felt like I do right now typing this (completely aware) so much more of my brain was likely active.

Any of you guys ever find yourself in a similar situation and/or had similar thoughts about responses? I know I have more of a flight response so this didn't surprise me and I don't think this is very deep analysis reaching for something with little basis. I think that was legitimately the main reason I decided to fly away in that moment... whether that be because of an actual fight or flight response hardwired into us, or because of an idea that makes sense to me and has latched onto my brain and way of thinking I don't know though lol. Also, do any of you have your fear responses tested while lucid? I feel like I wouldn't be afraid of anything really... startled possibly, but only momentarily. I don't have any situations like that to go off of though since I don't have enough lucid experience so I'm hoping someone else could help me out there.