Can lucids ever be scary?

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Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Yes. It can happen. It's happened to me a couple of times. Usually it's the other way around, where I will be having a dream that suddenly turns itself into a nightmare, and then I'll become lucid - but every now and then, I'll be having a dream, become lucid, and then weird shit will start happening as if my subconscious is actually trying to freak me out.

It's no more common than any other 'bad dream,' though, so it shouldn't be something that would make you apprehensive about lucid dreaming.

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Exactly this.

Dream becomes lucid. Weird shit happens, and im not so sure if its a dream anymore. Typically happens if i wake, while having a lucid dream. And then i try to re-enter it.

Even if a LD is scary it's a lucid dream after all so you should be able to control it and make it into something not so scary ;)

Lucid dream may become scary when the dreamscape ressemble a phobia or trauma. I had a LD some years ago where I saw all the surroundings from where I live totally destroyed. The realism of the scene shocked me, even knowing that was just a dream.

People here write about control... Can you really control nightmares? When I'm scared I can't control anything.

It only works in an indirect way, like leaving a scary room or getting rid of scary characters by killing them. If for some reason it's impossible or difficult, then I'm pretty much stuck :(. Can't just make them vanish. Even dream scenery will change accordingly to be scarier, fear feeds on itself.

I've seen chairs move across rooms, evil faces on the television. I've been pinned to the floor, and to my bed - not able to move a single muscle. I've watched my room turn to fire and fall as ash.

I only see these apparitions when I'm lucid dreaming. It's like turning on a scary movie - you know it is not real, but that does not make you fearless. Your skin can still crawl, the hair on your arms and neck can still stand on end.

Every lucid experience I've ever had was terrifying. And yet part of me continues to want this, as if it's ever actually going to improve and not be so strange and foreign. Yes. Lucids can be scary.