Adverse effects to increased vividness

[Citizen Erased]

With all my lucid training, I've found non LD's to be a lot more vivid and detailed than they used to be, I guess a lot of you can relate to that. I thought this was pretty neat until this morning. I had a dream I was jumped by a bunch of kids while walking down the road. They beat me up and knocked me unconscious. Everytime they hit me, I felt it and it hurt. A lot. I 'woke up' from my unconsciousness in a house somewhere, hurting and pretty terrified. I thought it was over but as soon as I left the room, the people were still waiting for me. They went on to pretty much torture me (that's no overstatement). They stuck pens into my flesh and tore the flesh open, repeatedly kicked me in the crotch, beat me, kicked me, broke my nose and probably a few other things. It didn't hurt as much as it would have in real life but believe me, it was enough to make the whole thing excruchiating (sp?), which wasn't helped by the fact this wasn't a short dream (I had it at about 10 in the morning so it was probably a fairly long rem cycle). I woke up after they'd finished and all the pain was gone but it still scared the hell out of me. If I'd had a dream like this 6 months ago, I wouldn't have remembered a thing and would have just woken up feeling scared. As it was I spent the whole day shook up and pretty freaked out. Anyone else found any 'adverse' effects to the increase in detail and vividness?

[Seeker]

Whoa!! Lucky for me I only dream nice things. Don't think I have ever been beat-up or tortured.

[Ev]

have you tried to fight back? I had few dreams in which I was attacked, but I always won...

[Citizen Erased]

Originally posted by Ev have you tried to fight back? I had few dreams in which I was attacked, but I always won... I fight like I don't have complete control of my limbs, it's amusing to watch apparently. If it had been a lucid dream I'd have kicked the living crap out of them and pushed them out a window or something but I was convinced it was reality and there were a lot more of them and they were a lot bigger / older than me. Curling into a featal position seemed like the only option quite weird, in part of the dream, my bands guitarist was there who's a European Tae-Kwon-Do champion or something and I kept telling him not to interviene I have no idea why, if it'd have been real life I'd have been screaming at him to come and kick some ass.

[Lowercase Society]

Everything becomes more vivid, dare i say even waking life?

[Serinanth]

Yep... Everything becomes more Vivid, more real, and things get confusing, specially when you wake up somewhere and you think its this place, and yeah pain works just about the same, work on your control in these worlds, dreamsigns will start to not work though other than the crazy stuf that might be going on. Given my nature of thinking anything possible I have to rely on an "itch" inside my mind to realise I am dreamin. Good luck to ya =)