Thread: Why is there so many dream negativity posts?

So am I the only one who sees being eaten in a dream as fun when it includes real-life sensations? Just me? Alright.

I do agree with what's been said already though. People tend to talk waaay more about what they don't want or want to stop than things they desire, hence why "negative" themes pop up far more often than positive ones.

I have experienced very realistic pain in both lucid and non-lucid dreams. Pain sensation is not exclusive to lucids. However, in lucids I can suppress the pain most of the time if I have advance knowledge of any pain inducing elements.

Originally Posted by Hukif

So am I the only one who sees being eaten in a dream as fun when it includes real-life sensations? Just me? Alright.

Probably, but I'm sure there are more people. XD

Originally Posted by Hukif

So am I the only one who sees being eaten in a dream as fun when it includes real-life sensations? Just me? Alright.

You probably mean, with dream-like sensations.

Originally Posted by Hukif

I do agree with what's been said already though. People tend to talk waaay more about what they don't want or want to stop than things they desire, hence why "negative" themes pop up far more often than positive ones.

To balance things out, let me report my nightly goals that I have been setting for myself recently.
- Access to memory.
- I welcome in benevolent spirits and God. I'm interested welcoming more mystical experiences but in this case, I am leaving the masochist path behind. I'd rather give myself good experiences than bad ones.
- I want to meet some old wise characters. I find my dreams are filled with children. They are healthy now, whereas they were hurt before. So, my work with them has progressed well, but their presence shows my hesitation to grow up. I want to summon my mature, old wise self in dreams, as I mature and become an adult, free and powerful to take on responsibility.

All good things.

While I am reading your replys, I tend to belive that everyone are looking from their own viewpoint(me included) and starting to think that this is little out of our league. What I'm saying is that, this territory is totaly uncharted. We are like lucid(instead of space) astronauts, exploring the deep space called Lucid Dreaming. So the truthness is somewhere in the middle.

Of course everything I post here were things from my long forgoten past. It seems one more person noticed that I'm mixing too much of LD with Reality, ehh it wasn't really a person. So I don't want to post more nightmerish stuff, but maybe something a little more positive.(because thinking about my past NM of any kind give me serious distress, for which I think, I don't have enough pills)

Four months ago I had a LD induced from FA.
I wake up in living room and immediately gained awarness.(I live in apartment) Everything around was darkish, the lamps doesn't glow enough and the walls were covered in some dark substance like tentacles(or veins), they were like alive, they had a heartbeat(pulsating). I went in the corridor, everything was covered in that stuff, the lamps were flickering. I thought to get out from front door, but behind the door there was a strange noise, so I looked through the spyhole. On the other side of the door there was a black fat monster with big mouth and many teeths, which from time to time was burping with sulphur smell. So I went to my room, the walls were covered also, I thought that I can fly out of windows,but they were covered also, from what I saw through them all the city were covered in that shit. The sun was there, but was a full sun eclipse. In that moment the entire floor started to cover with dark spiders and snakes stuff. I jump on top of my bed. I thought that I can't escape from that, so I just sit on the bed, the dark things were crawling towards me in that moment the lamps gone all dark.

Suddenly a person appeared on the bed beside me, he was carrying a little flashlight. He looked at me and say "What are you doing, why are you so afraid, everything in here is an illusion. Everything here is part of yourself, look carefully now". He close his eyes and the next moment his little flashlight lit like a big projector. I asked him how did you do it. He said "You must concentrate, use your inner light", "ok I will give it a try". I closed my eyes and focused on light, the next moment the room exploded in very bright light, all blackness started to burn and disapeared. Outside was a bright day, all the darkness was gone "See you can do it, if you just try and remember this is your inner world, your will is everything". I turned towards him and said "perhaps, you are Me". He smiled and vanish. In that moment the dream fall apart and I woke up in my bed.

Everything changed afterwards.

Originally Posted by lucidbunnie

I have experienced very realistic pain in both lucid and non-lucid dreams. Pain sensation is not exclusive to lucids. However, in lucids I can suppress the pain most of the time if I have advance knowledge of any pain inducing elements.

Probably, but I'm sure there are more people. XD

lol I know! I do like the real-life sensations however, since they make the dream more memorable to me, makes it like another reality I am living in.

Originally Posted by Occipitalred

You probably mean, with dream-like sensations.

To balance things out, let me report my nightly goals that I have been setting for myself recently.
- Access to memory.
- I welcome in benevolent spirits and God. I'm interested welcoming more mystical experiences but in this case, I am leaving the masochist path behind. I'd rather give myself good experiences than bad ones.
- I want to meet some old wise characters. I find my dreams are filled with children. They are healthy now, whereas they were hurt before. So, my work with them has progressed well, but their presence shows my hesitation to grow up. I want to summon my mature, old wise self in dreams, as I mature and become an adult, free and powerful to take on responsibility.

All good things.

I guess that comes with perspective?
To me, what people refer to negative things is the positive ones.
For example, I remember a pretty nice dream where I literally fed a starving dog trapped in a yakuza's base my arm, I could feel while he was munching on my flesh and bones and all the pain that comes with it, but it felt pretty good and made me happy enough to endure it, since the little boy was hungry.

Dreams are just so diverse and beatiful overall, I like them so much ^^

Some of my negative dreams are about real life issues that need more attention than the fluff.