I can't say "this is a dream"

When I was a kid I used to have a lot of lucid dreams, I thought that it was normal and that everyone could control them freely. The main rule for me was to NEVER say or think "this is a dream" when I realized it, if I did, I would get sucked into a black hole and then spin around earth for like 15 minutes or so before I woke up. Either that or there would be tons of nightmarish creatures eating me.

This scared the shit out of me as a kid so I decided to never utter those words again. My lucid dreaming ability went away as I forgot about it, but I tried hard yesterday and worked on reality checks and such and I had 3 LDs during the night, including one false-awakening.

I'm still scared shitless of saying the words "this is a dream" :( have anyone else had the same problem when saying those very important words to remind you that it is in fact a dream? I might try to say something like "this is not reality" instead but I'll just have to try that tonight. I know that since I've gone lucid I could change what happens afterwards, but as soon as that hole appears and I start spinning around the earth my mind goes blank.

I say "I'm dreaming." then I go on to think about what dreaming is. "Well if i'm dreaming then...everything here is just my imagination" and I usually get control off that.

I think this kinda proves that lucid dreaming abilities or disabilities are physiological capacities of the mind during dream state. Like some can fly and some can't. There have been many different cases of effects when one becomes lucid vs non-lucid. Like waking up when lucid or unable to make things appear when lucid. Lucidity is a change of state from the 'unconcious' dream state to a more familiar waking state. I think the change affects both ability and thought processes in the dream. So maybe one can fly while non-lucid but can't when lucid.

IMJ

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Originally Posted by imj

I think this kinda proves that lucid dreaming abilities or disabilities are physiological capacities of the mind during dream state. Like some can fly and some can't. There have been many different cases of effects when one becomes lucid vs non-lucid. Like waking up when lucid or unable to make things appear when lucid. Lucidity is a change of state from the 'unconcious' dream state to a more familiar waking state. I think the change affects both ability and thought processes in the dream. So maybe one can fly while non-lucid but can't when lucid.

IMJ

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I disagree, respectfully. I think it has more to do with the OP's expectations. Since lucid dreaming is in our minds, anything imaginable is possible. There are ways to get around monsters appearing when the OP says a phrase in her or his dream, for example. :)