Thread: Nightmares

Nightmares usually come from a fear of something.

Are you afraid of anything?

What type of author are you trying to become?

Look up some foods that will encourage nightmares and eat before you sleep. i am guessing a horror writer?

- sherlock.

ok. Thanks theyearthreethousand!!! Yes I am writeing horror novels that hopefully get published.

dear Misbijoux,

I like nightmares that are realistic and are like horror movies. But at the same time that is what I am scared of but I like the feeling of it because I can get into my characters and it gives me ideas sometimes. So will it make it harder for me to have a nightmare if I am scared at the time but I like it in the end??

Originally Posted by 5311995

dear Misbijoux,

I like nightmares that are realistic and are like horror movies. But at the same time that is what I am scared of but I like the feeling of it because I can get into my characters and it gives me ideas sometimes. So will it make it harder for me to have a nightmare if I am scared at the time but I like it in the end??

Drink a shot of hot sauce. Watch videos of simeese twins, disturbing things, 9/11 calls, tragic stories, executions,etc. Make yourself gag at them. If you want a true night terror do this. I had one that disturbed me for 2 weeks. A real nightmare doesn't feel like a horror movie. It feels like eternity in a cycle of terror.

Ideally a lucid dream can be anything you want it to be.

However, dream control determines how much godly powers you wield in a LD. If you lucid dream and have tremendous control you could change your dream into a nightmare with but a mere thought.

Good luck with that.
If you write a book based on a lucid nightmare be sure to tell us about it so we can snag it up whenever it gets released.

thanks!

ok I will have to try that dreamworld and I will tell you how it goes

i think that if you want it bad enough just think of something scary but again i haven't read all the information so sorry if i am wrong!

Originally Posted by 5311995

ok I havent read everything about having lucid dreams yet because I was wondering something. They said that you cancontrol your nightmares. But I am trying to become an author and i need some nightmares. So what I am thinking is that I start to have a lucid dream can it be a nightmare?

A book suggestion for you - "Writers Dreaming" by Naomi Epel. (Subtitled "Twenty-Six Writers Talk About their Dreams and the Creative Process") Since you are into horror, you might be especially interested in the chapters from Clive Barker, Anne Rice and Stephen King. (Both Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" were based on the authors nightmares.) Good luck to you -

Originally Posted by Griman

A book suggestion for you - "Writers Dreaming" by Naomi Epel. (Subtitled "Twenty-Six Writers Talk About their Dreams and the Creative Process") Since you are into horror, you might be especially interested in the chapters from Clive Barker, Anne Rice and Stephen King. (Both Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" were based on the authors nightmares.) Good luck to you -

thank you so much for the book sugestion

Originally Posted by 5311995

thank you so much for the book sugestion

Agreed!

Hello, this is my first time on the site and this looked like the most interesting thread. I have to say I never thought about attempting to control my dreams, I notice when I do get to control them I realize it's a dream which makes it easier to wake up (Does anyone else notice that?) I find when I'm in a nightmare I can control it with out realizing it's a dream, a long time ago I remember being chased by these four legged creatures, black creatures probably made out of some sort of tar and muscle, I ran into what looked like the theatre and there was an old fasion elevador that I ran into, I didn't have enough time to close the cage doors so I curled up in the corner and put my hands over my head and started saying "Please go away" a few times, and when I looked it was either gone or stopped attacking me. And that's not the first time it had happened. I haven't yet started writing my dreams down because I never thought of it until this morning when I was curious about the sleep cycle and the dream cycle. I was also wondering.... Should I write previous dreams down? Ones that I remember form a long time ago? I have a few but I couldn't remember the dates if my life depended on it. (Also, I'd like to try to write a book and being able to control my dreams would be a cool way to help me write.)

I also recall (With out waking up multiple times through the night) having multiple dreams. And how do you know if they're full dreams or just fragments?

Welcome to Dream Views, Lucysdarkside

I've heard a lot of people learning to Lucid Dream 'naturally' due to nightmares. If you have already had experience with dream control or brief moments of lucidity, you have a head start on learning to Lucid Dream.

Dream fragments and full dreams are sort of interchangeable. Sometimes brief dreams are easier to remember than long ones, and sometimes you can only remember a small portion of a longer dream. Sometimes a couple dream fragments will sort of fit together to make a longer, full dream, if you know what I mean.

If you don't do it already, start journaling your dreams. This should help increase the vividness of the dreams you already recall, and help you recall longer portions of the dreams.