Thread: Fear of Lucid Dreams

The fact that you're becoming interested in your lucid dreams and that you desire to work with them should help you. Think of it as knowledge versus fear.

You might decide on a "mantra" to say to yourself the next time this happens. "I'm not afraid, It's OK", or some-such. This can accomplish two things right off the bat: 1) It can help you "program" your mind to do something else other than panicking and immediately trying to wake yourself up, and 2) It can help you establish a sense of "control", thus allowing you to deal a little easier with each subsequent LD.

Experience breeds confidence, and confidence breeds control. I made that up, cheesy, no?

Originally Posted by CANES

I want to experiment with controling my dreams, make myself fall into lucid dreams etc. But first i must get over my fear in these dreams. Does anyone know how I can overcome this? or maybe someone who was in a similar sutiation, and can offer advice.

Lucid dreams can be like giving speeches CANES. They can be a terrifying experience at first, but after you've had a few of them, they are really fun.

So just keep getting lucid as often as possible. It get a lot easier.

Also, knowing what to expect can help relieve the tension as if someone knows about something like sleep paralysis before it happens to them, they can relax and float out of their body when it occurs instead of tensing up and trying to wake themselves up.

Try to keep telling yourself that you will always have complete control, and nothing is stronger than yourself in your own dream.

Originally Posted by Dan24678

Experience breeds confidence, and confidence breeds control. I made that up, cheesy, no?

No, that's actually a very good quote. Makes perfect sense. It's like the first time I went on a roller coaster, I was terrified. Or like the first time I rode a mototcycle. But after you do it a few times, you lose that fear and you keep wanting to do it. I quess if it works that way in reality, it should be the same way in my dreams. After all it's all in my head and if my mind created the fear then my mind can delete it.

Last night I remembered a good amount of my dreams, well a lot more than usual. I think reading these articles last night might have triggered that. I was excited this morning to think that I am getting closer to experimenting with the power of my own mind. I don't think this project will be too hard for me, since i've had these type of dreams quite often. I think the hard part will be learning to not fear what I don't know.

Thanks Canes.. I'll take the compliment on the off chance that I really knew what I was talking about.

Whether lucid or not, the single aspect of my dreams that I find most fascinating and worthy of "study" (if I were inclined toward an academic treatment) is the behavior or dream characters.

I create them in my mind, yet their words and behavior appear to me to come from without. I have ready access to my own dream thoughts, yet while I create the actions and words of dream characters, my mind is somehow "shut off" from the script I write for them. Even in lucid dreams, I can try to make a dream character say something I'm thinking, and more often than not, they don't cooperate, saying instead something I wasn't thinking of at all.. but I must have been thinking it *somewhere* because it's all going on in my own mind.

Does anyone else see this aspect of dreaming as one of the most (If not *the* the most) fascinating?

Thanks for letting me know about this thread!

I'll be honest about how I got over my fear of lucid dreaming: I started having them in the morning when I would get up, then go back to bed for a few hours. So long as it was daylight, I wasn't scared of having them. (I know, weird). After I experimented a bit with them, now I'm not as scared to have them at night. WILD's still scare me a little though regardless of the time I get them.

So I guess that's the only advice I can give - do the wake up/go back to bed thing once the sun starts coming out if it's the darkness part that scares you. Then once you start having them and experiment, you'll be less and less afraid! Hope this helps.

Excellent points on here. My two cents, since I'm just now getting to voice my opinion on this subject.

As Steven Laberge has indicated to me before, it also has to do with belief. If you believe you are inferieor to whatever is scaring you in your lucid dreams, you will be. If you believe you are all powerful, you most likely will succeed at that, but it takes experience. As someone else said on here, experience really is the key. Just keep the faith.