Hello :)

[teaonwallz]

Hi.My name's Laura and I'm 16.Well..almost 17 . I started getting into lucid dreaming about 4 or 5 months ago when I realized I want to control my own dreams. I didn't actually managed to make some progress.I can't say that I put work into it tough. Until now I had two ... dreams that really freaked me out. I'm not sure they were lucid dreams. I was lucid but I'm not sure they were dreams. Dreams are not supposed to hurt, right? Both times I was in my bed , very tired, with my face in the pillow . First time it started with a nightmare and I heard a weird song. I decided I didn't like it so I woke up.I guess I was lucid.Then,when I turned around , I had a phone in my hand.I tried to read the hour but the text started to fly around.That's when I realized I'm still dreaming. The next thing I knew , my upper body was slowly rising up in the air. The song started to play again and my body started to hurt. When I saw that I was floating I said that I do not want to see my body and I woke up. The next time it was shorter.I fell asleep and then I ''woke up'' .I was paralyzed with my face on the pillow.When I said that I am dreaming , I started to float and my body hurt again. Then I said that this is all real. I fell back with my face on the pillow.When I said to myself that I am dreaming, I started to float again. This went on and on until I decided to wake up.I tried to open my eyes and to move my hands but It was very hard.Then I woke up. The last one happened at the beginning of June.Since then .. no other lucid dream. I tried binaural beats but they didn't work. I was just curious if you can really feel pain in lucid dreams.

[Caretaker]

The mind works in very strange ways. In dreams, if you're lucid, what you believe is what will be real, more or less. If you are about to get hit in the face with a pillow, you know what it feels like to be hit in the face with a pillow, and you expect to feel what that feels like then you most likely will. However, if you know you're dreaming then you can think "this ain't gonna feel like shit" and it won't if you really believe that. The way dream control works is all belief. You have to really believe in something to happen in order for it to be so. So you could feel pain if you believe something in a dream will hurt. In less words: Know you're dreaming and that the pain isn't real and you won't feel like it. Also, welcome to the forums! Don't give up on Lucid Dreaming because of a shaky start. It's amazing and everyone should try it. I hope you stick with it and good luck with your dreams!

[Matte87]

Hi and welcome! That sounds very much like Sleep Paralysis, and it can present itself in many different ways. Some people don't feel much at all and some extreme discomfort. You can even feel pain and sometimes you get the feeling of being suffocated. Relax! If you relax and tell yourself it's all in your head, it will be alot easier. Also when you're in Sleep Paralysis and you relax, you can enter a dream very fast. Yes you can feel pain in dreams aswell, it's not as intense as in real life, but it's definitely possible. It's not physical pain though, just the memory of how it feels like and what you expect and believe it would feel like. If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask!

[teaonwallz]

Thanks a lot for the answers .I'll continue to try having lucid dreams as i find them very interesting

[ninja9578]

binural beats don't work, they can affect your brain, but they won't make you lucid. Subliminal messages will though Check out the lucid aids forum for some of those

[teaonwallz]

Never heard of subliminal messages.I will look into it . Last night I managed to become lucid using some reality checks but ... I don't really remember much. I remember that I was happy when I realized that I was dreaming