Quote Originally Posted by Booney View Post
Hey folks!

So, it's been three months since I've been active on this forum. No room for LDing during that time.
But the last few days I'm getting these moments of awareness/lucidity in my dreams but I don't have a chance to really enjoy them because DC are attacking me.
I seem to remember reading a lot about this in topics of other beginners, about DCs attacking the dreamer as soon as awareness kicks in. So I wonder if there is a reason our mind triggers this? And the logical follow up question, how to take controle.

I've been shoving daggers up in peoples necks for days now. :p
Hey, welcome back, Booney! Good to see you around these parts again.

What an excellent question. My best guess on this is that like most things that happen in dreams, it's a product of some fear of expectation that you have. Perhaps in some earlier dream you had the sense that dreams were an alien environment and that you were somehow unwelcome.

This may have led to an attack, which of course feeds into ideas you've picked up from reading about other peoples' experiences. Combine that with any self-doubt about whether your conscious mind is welcome in your dreamworld, and I think that you have the recipe for a situation like this.

My advice would be to remain almost in denial of what's happening. Your dreams are your domain, and these attackers don't have an ounce of strength that they don't borrow from you. If you ignore them or channel their energy in some other direction, they'll have nothing. As they approach, try to imagine them just passing right by you. Imagine that they know what you know -- that this is your world, and only your rules apply.

Hey man, would you mind if we pulled this question in for an episode of the Q&A podcast? I'd dig hearing all the hosts' thoughts on something like this.

Anyway, hope to see you around!