Quote Originally Posted by Goldenspark View Post
Hey Humla, sorry to hear about your nightmares. A lot of good replies on here.
I would only add that it does depend on what the cause of your nightmares are. Maybe you are "just" having nightmares, and there's no underlying psychological reason other than you being under stress at this point in your life (all sorts of possible causes).
The answers above about confronting your fears can work even if there is a deep underlying cause, because you can just leave some deep-seated trauma buried and "get on with life". ( It may be that the early life trauma was actually something very innocuous but just interpreted as something more shocking than it really was).
It is quite normal for a lot of dream content to involve negative emotions (fears mostly), but one thing lucid dreaming allows is for you to rationalise (because you have waking life consciousness available), so you should be able to use logic to overcome your fears.

I once became friends with a very scary tiger in a lucid dream. It started off semi-lucid, and I was being stalked by this tiger, very frightened, but then it sat down next to me and started telling me about its claws, showing me how they worked in a very matter of fact way! I didn't consciously cause that change, it just happened on its own, but you can use expectation within a lucid dream to cause such changes to the plot.

Good luck!
Hi Goldenspark, thanks for the reply.
The cause of my nightmares, fear, anxiety (I take for granted they are connected) is something recent. A substance pretty much messed up my brain's way to function properly and needs time to heal, from what I've read.
I think I'm worrying that LD will somehow worsen my state of mind when I'm so unstable, even if looking at it logically it seems very unlikely.

Your nightmare that ended positively was very charming, I wish my latest one ended similarly. And you're right that expectations are very important, I think I need to focus on putting my mind in a positive place, maybe especially before going to sleep somehow. It helps to read on this forum, because it's very positive and friendly, so that will probably become a habit of mine.


I have had many frightening experiences. But facing them head-on has always saw me through it very well. And this always affects me extremely positively.

Some people find it best to have total faith in God. Some have total trust in the universe. Some have complete trust in themselves.
Any one of these options can allow a person to go through a fire without getting burned (metaphorically speaking).

I've always had issues with anxiety myself, but this stuff I'm talking about is a skill which at some point translated into my everyday life and has really helped my anxiety.
I can imagine that way of thinking would help a lot with anxiety, that makes sense. It's a skill worth practicing, for sure. Hard to achieve when in a bad headspace I find personally, but very important.