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I wake up, it is 2PM. I am supposed to be meeting Kirsty at 3! I am going to be completely late. I ring her up and re arrange to meet up at 5. I apologise. I realise that when the clock suddenly says 9PM, I am screwed. I text her, apologising deeply. I look at the clock again to realise I read it wrong, it is in fact 7PM. Still too late, however. I am with my mum in the living room, I notice that the clock has too many numbers; HH:MM:SS, rather than the standard; HH:MM. I think to myself, this must be a dream.
I pinch my nose and cannot breath. I think to myself, surely it is, but why can’t I breath through my nose. I try again and succeed in breathing ever so slightly through my nose whilst pinching it. I had a cold in reality so it was just generally hard to breathe through my nose at all. I decide, now that I’m in an LD, I tell my mum that it is an LD and she just walks off. I decide that I should turn on the light, I always love the way you can turn on a light, see that it does switch on, yet nothing gets brighter. Still not sure of what to do, I shout as loud as I can, I always get worried about shouting in LDs, because I wonder If I am going to shout in my sleep in reality.
I realise that I have never left my area of having an LD before, so I decide to leave my house for the first time. It’s thundering extremely bad, the lightning, it seems, is only a few feet in the air. I am actually scared. Even thought it was an LD, I felt I had no control over this. I was scared immensely. The lightning strikes me, I fall down. I feel pain. Danny A’s Dad comes over and tells me to get away. He tells me that I have been dead since I was 8 years old, struck by lightening and forced to live on, dead.
The lightning engulfs me, giving me powers I do not want. I accidentally shock my friends Dad. He runs, shouting at me. I come inside, shaken and disturbed, realising my LD had gotten out of hand. Inside, my mum comes to me and starts to say that it isn’t an LD anymore! This is now just another normal dream! Not an LD! This is now just your second dream of the night! Not an LD! I felt as though I’d been punished, as though maybe I wasn’t supposed to realise it was a dream, that I was supposed to have had a normal dream to receive a message, but it wasn’t my fault. I hadn’t purposely induced one, I had just realised it was a dream mid way through.
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the funny thing is, getting struck by lightning in a LD was one of the old lucid tasks. thats funny.
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Our subconscious loves to troll with us :content:
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Your subconscious can instantly hook on to any feelings that you might have about LD'ing not being natural somehow, or that you're 'corrupting' a real dream. Also, people often have doubts to whether LD'ing is harmful in any way. All of this can cause doubt whether LD'ing is right or not, and while the conscious can surpress such feelings, the subconscious may instead dwell on them. That may be what happened to you.
I'd advise you to sort of ignore this whole event. You'll gain more control over time, and as LD'ing becomes more natural to you, your dream will probably stop reacting so strongly. However, if you are afraid to LD again, the dream might again turn into a nightmare because of your fear. So simply approach LD'ing with confidence, like nothing happened, and you should be fine next time. :)
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Thanks for the replies. I do have a decent amount of control, that was the first time I'd ever faced something completely uncontrolable in an LD before, I think Leo's post somewhere about LDs being harmful lol, i admit, it did freak me out a bit, but I am still continuing with lucidity, I am attempting this months lucid task lol ^_^
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having no control is ok. It can be overcome if you really want to. Just dont go along with the dream and just use your power. lol, I can compare that to the "dark side of the force" :D Definitely more powerful, but not working together with the dream. I stumbled upon that by accident and I dont advocate the use of this method.
As for punishment for LDing - I think it may all be random, and even if there's some part of your mind that punishes you, there's another part that helps you.
