Thread: bad experiences input please :-)

In some ways I never really wanted to make this post because I thought it might put people off lucid dreaming and I think its a great thing but it’s been a few months now so I thought what the hell I want some input :-) What it boils down to is what I see as the negative side of lucid dreaming and that is the fact that recall is seriously a double edged knife. On a couple of occasions I have bad dreams brutally murdered and stuff, that’s fine what I was unable to cope with where dreams that where heavily psychological in nature and leave a lasting impression when you wake.

Two of these types of a dream in a row basically made me want to forget about lucid dreaming all together. The first was nightmare I gained lucidity and instead of a calm I usually gain I could barely quell the fear that I felt lucidity seemed to make the situation much more intense and the terror was lasting and something I didn’t much like. The second night I had a really intense psychological nightmare and try as I might I couldn’t really shake it off during the day and I was scared to sleep. Its then I understood why people say ignorance is bliss.

This all makes me sound a bit soft :-) but it’s hard to describe what it was like to be in such a hellish situation and remember it extremely clearly and feel negatively affected by it when you wake. I guess stuff like this must have happened to other people who have extremely good recall and they got over it so Id like to hear any thoughts or advice you might have. Thanks.

Hey, I've had a few negative experiences. And yeah, they freak you out. But they are few and far between and they wouldn't make me want to stop LDing for the world! Confront your fears!!!

I'm really lucky in this area. I haven't had one nightmare that I can remember in over a year. And no, it's not because my recall is bad.

i had a bunch of negative regular dreams never had a really bad lucid dream plus im a person who remains clam(well... when theres a bad sitution)

My first LD was a nightmare when I was a kid, and I haven't really had a nightmare since. I believe it's because I discovered that I could vanquish the nightmare by simply waking myself up, so no matter what I dream about it doesn't scare me anymore.

take the good with the bad... just like everything else in life.

Okay thanks for the input guys I’ve decided to start back with lucid dreaming and try and confront the horrors. I think the problem lies with the fact Im quite passive in dreams and so find it hard to counter bad situations.

I say , if someone is trying to kill you .. take control ... Control " ima cut you " " BITCH I GOT DUELIESSS " bam bam but anyways thats me and its problably harder than it seems ...

yeah...I was going to say something like that. take your nightmare and turn it into a good dream. think positively. it works.