Quote Originally Posted by Shift View Post
You say that you are worried about not being able to tell waking life from the dream world? Well, then ideally, every dream you would have would be a lucid dream, so that you would notice the strict division between dream and real life! As it is, you spend all of your time sleeping not realizing that the dream world isn't reality.
Wow, that is a REALLY good way to look at it... I never thought of it that way, that when I'm in a dream, I'm thinking it's reality, but it's not. That's so helpful.... thank you!

Quote Originally Posted by Shift View Post
One way I've found to get over the fear of accidentally summoning scary things in a lucid dream is to plan out what you want to do and establish some fun dream goals. Ones that you are SO pumped up about and SO motivated about, that when you do become lucid scary thoughts don't even enter your mind.
This is really good advice. Again, thank you-- I am going to definitely do this.

Quote Originally Posted by Shift View Post
Honestly, I think the amount of worrying that you are putting into this is what's going to be the only thing to cause you to have bad experiences.
Yeah, I'm sure you are right about that! Heh. Silly me! Thank you so much for your response... it is really helpful and puts me more at ease.