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[SherryBerry]

Hi! I'm Sherry! Nice to meet you all. I'm quite excited that I came across this site and found others who are just as curious about their dreaming as you all I have very vivid dreams and often am able to remember several in one night. I was curious about being able to control the subject of my dreams (but not necessarily control the dream itself). So about a year ago, on my own, I did exercises in my mind for about 10 - 15 minutes before I went to sleep. This way, I could force my dream to be about a certain subject but I always lose control after a couple minutes and dream about something else randomly. After several months of not being able to maintain my dream environment, I looked online and learned about lucid dreaming on some google search...which scared the shit out of me. It had all these warnings about nightmares and the horrific images you'd see. So I decided I wouldn't even bother with lucid dreaming. However, I already read the page and could not unread what I read. I was able to lucid dream even though I don't have a desire to. Last night I had my first solid lucid dream since I was a child. Except it was terrifying. I was wondering if there are any tricks to prevent the people in the dream from getting angry when you realize it is a dream and how to prevent the lucid dreaming from becoming a nightmare. I don't really want to avidly pursue lucid dreaming. But I know that I have often become briefly aware of dreaming in a dream before, and it will probably happen again. But ever since I read that webpage, I think that I would now be able to maintain my full awareness just because I now know that it is possible. The details of my dream is below, but you don't have to read that if you don't want to, lol... Yes, so now I think lucid dreaming is very scary and I don't know what to do with myself if it ever happens again. :-/ Nonetheless, it's nice to meet you! I still love dreams, though I was in the middle of a conversation when I realized I was dreaming, because I was reciting my address incorrectly. Then I excitedly said, "I'm dreaming!" to the person I was talking to and turned to explore the mansion I was in. (haha. Basically, I abruptedly stopped the conversation and left the person there) The person then angrily yells at me. He screams that, "you are not dreaming!" This then becomes a huge argument, where I still calmly insist that I am dreaming. And I really wanted to continue exploring, but this guys keeps wanting to talk to me. He starts trying to prove himself (in an angry and threatening manner) by covering his ears, as he says "you are trying to make me listen to you but..." and then he rips off his ears. Then the environment around me starts to turn dark, unvivid, and spin, and I scream. I wake up but it is a false awakening. I don't realize that this is false and try to move my heavy body. And then I wake up for real. But I don't realize this at first either, since it was a very seamless process. It wasn't until I thought about the tiny details of the false awakening that I realized that it even existed in the first place.

[silver2k]

Hi and welcome to Dreamviews Sherry! Sounds like you already have the skills to become an expert lucid dreamer. About your nightmares..on the contrary, lucid dreams have proven to be a cure for nightmares. You can use lucidity to get rid of the scares in your dreams. It's you who is in charge, if someone is chasing you, scaring you etc. ask the person to go away and he most likely will. I'm pretty new to this too but I hope I helped.