Thread: Lucid dreaming a bit scary?...

to DV, tommy79

I think I can understand your fear. That lucid feeling can be a bit weird. I feel it especially when I am talking with a dream character who I supposedly know in real life. It is very strange to talk with someone knowing that they are not real.

The whole point of doing reality checks is to keep your awareness up so you can tell the difference between reality and a dream. Without this awareness and ability to become lucid, you are already confusing dreams with reality. By definition, non-lucid dreams are those where you are convinced the dream is real. That is a scary place to be, especially if it is a nightmare.

The more you increase your awarneness and lucidity, the easier it is to tell the difference between reality and dreams. It will also make you more comfortable with the dream state, so they start to feel less weird.

Welcome to DV!

I've definitely experienced that twilight zone feeling, usually when I'm waking up and falling asleep several times in one night. I've found that reality checks, such as counting your fingers, are just as good for checking to make sure you're awake as they are for seeing if you're dreaming...so if you've just had a false awakening and things still seem too weird/scary, you can know that you're still dreaming and wake yourself up for real (and then know for sure that you're awake by doing another reality check).

I've also experienced those lucid dreams where I felt "close" to my physical body, as though I were in a lighter sleep. I usually try to get "further" by either going through the floor or falling asleep (and WILDing) within the dream.

yeah i understand exactly what you're saying, a few times while i was lucid i thought i never want to do it again because of the weird feeling. now, i feel completely comfortable and i started taking melatonin as well (5mg), but i don't take it every night, just when i feel like i need help sleeping. i haven't had a lucid dream in over a month now because a lot has been going on, and stress, but i just started doing reality checks again so hopefully i'll have one soon. also reality checks like looking at my hand or looking at my surroundings doesn't work for me, my hand looks normal in a dream because i expect it to be, and the same goes for my surroundings, so i have to come up with a new one.

welcome to dreamviews where someone seems to have an answer....in one way or another

Ya I definitely had that sort of real not real sort of feeling.
When I was just starting to get in to lucid dreaming I had a really vivid dream that was close to reality I started to question the world when I knew I was awake.

It was A very strange moment when I thought I was a little nuts. But I got over it and now I am much better with differentiating dream reality and the waking world.