Thread: Feeling depressed or anxious in a lucid dream.

That's what happened to me when I tried lucid dreaming for the first time months ago. I stayed still most of the time and felt that my breathing was getting heavy, but shorter, and my heart just started to augment in beating. Images of swirly lines appeared at the back of my eyes, but I wasn't sure of this experience.

I guess you probably panicked a little bit because your dream was already reaching its end. It's nothing too abnormal, because Lucid dreams are apparent and more vivid during REM cycles, your eyes were moving very fast, which means your heart rate was going up as well.

But that's what I think, try looking for similar topics on the forum relating to heartbeat and being uncomfortable.

Oh, ok! Thanks that mostly does make sense.

No problem Good luck on more lucid dreaming. I've seen some threads where some people used depression as an aid to help them forget that they are away from their physical body. Who knows, maybe you could practice making a negative into a positive!

When you get better and better at it, you'll feel so energetic and happy, at least I do whenever I know I was dreaming . I seem like a hypocrite when I declare this, I have been practicing lucid dreaming, but I'm still a newbie compared to other experienced LDers that have epic dreams that last for hours.

I guess that's what makes LDing a challenge for self-enlightenment, even though there are many techniques to practice, there are certain ones, or variations of many that work for a person, and each contributes to that person having certain effects from it, like how you were feeling negative in the dream.