Hello Dreamers

[Saturnine]

Hi everyone! I'm Roe, I'm 23 years old...and I'm totally sleep deprived at the moment. I CANT SLEEP! lol But I'm glad cause my boredom brought me HERE! I havn't really explored the site yet, but I'm already intrigued. I've been interested in Lucid Dreaming for a while, and have had some strange experiences myself. I recently bought a book about Lucid Dreaming because I went over a month without remembering a single dream, and it was getting depressing. I was a VERY good lucid dreamer as a child! I really miss being able to have really long, vivid, fantasy like LUCID dreams. They were almost worth the occasional crazy night terror(don't even wanna think about those). It seems like I don't have any NON scary dreams at all anymore, probably because I'm always stressed out and suffer from a major anxiety disorder! I don't know what's worse...not dreaming at all, or having nightmares lol I'm hoping to learn how to get back to my childhood dream states. I also experience sleep paralysis every once and a while, with hallucinations. I swear I thought I was being pulled out of my body a few times during these episodes. I HATE when this happens to me! Anyway, the main reason why I want to learn more about being lucid is because whenever it happens to me NOW, I freak out and wake up only seconds into the dream!!! Yes I am scared of them : ( I tend to have a lot more nightmares than good dreams, and I absolutely dread a nightmare or a nightmarish hallucination! Since I started reading this book I had one lucid dream that lasted about 10 seconds...there was nothing scary about it *I was actually floating up towards the ceiling over our lit christmas tree!* but I still got freaked out and woke up *I think because I thought I was dead*. I had no body in the dream. I'm just frustrated! Hopefully I'll find some answers/advice from you guys because I want to turn these bad experiences into good ones! Sorry if I rambled, it's almost 4am and I can't think strait haha.

[ninja9578]

Lucid dreaming is a good way to get rid of nightmares. If you know that what you are seeing isn't real, then it's not scary. Also try changing your dieet and maybe listen to calming music before bed.

[Thorim]

First of all welcome to dreamviews. Is there a reason for your sleep sleep deprivation, or is it your fear of nightmares? I do also think that lucid dreaming will help you to conquer your nightmares, and maybe it will also help you to get more sleep again. Good luck Thorim

[Saturnine]

I just have a lot of anxiety, sleeping is very hard! I'm also scared of lucid nightmares...Scary things happen while I know I'm lucid, cause I tend to lose CONTROL the dreams. Just hope I can have good LD's again soon! Thanks