Thread: Fear of Never Waking?

Now I haven't personally experienced this, but I've been teaching some small groups about lucid dreaming, and one person came and asked me about being afraid that he was never going to wake up.

i have lucid dreams many many times.
The scariest part of a lucid dream for me, is the fear of knowing im dreaming and not being able to wake up. What is this called?
Has anyone experienced this?

At first when i realize im dreaming, its all fun but sometimes, ill start to get worried in my dream that im never going to be able to wake up no matter how hard i try. in the dream, i picture scenarios where i wake up but i know im not in reality, and im still in a dream. no matter how hard i try i cant wake up and i start to fear im going to live out my entire life in a dream state.

So, anyone else experienced this or know anything about this kind of fear?

I know a little bit about it. If your looking for this person to overcome this fear it would be right to ask them why he/she is affriad of waking up. Ie, Death, needs to finish a project and cannot waste valuble time sleeping. When you have a concrete answear then you can begin to figure out how to help them cope with that fear or obsession.

I think the end summed his reason up quite nicely

i start to fear im going to live out my entire life in a dream state.

I'm pretty sure its very general, kinda like asking someone "Why they don't want to die." The answer is usually simply some form of "Just because... I don't want to die."

But I will ask and see if theres more to it, but I'm pretty sure its just general fear.

That fear is called stupidity.

I'm always afraid I'm going to wake up. I hate the waking up part.

I guess they're afraid of being trapped. That you would eventually run out of things to dream about.