Ever since I started attempting LD, I have been having strange dreams, mostly unpleasant. The first Night I started keeping a journal, I had physical pain (not in real life but in the dream) for unknown reason. Dream recall was very very good though, which I understand is a good sign (remebered three dreams with great detail in one night) The enxt night I again had some unpleasantness. I decided to give up and stopped experimenting, but since then I have had terrifying sleep paralysis, bad dreams, ans on very bad experience where I was trapped in an edless loop of false awakenings (about ten). This felt so real that it took five minutes of full wakefullness before I was sure that it wasn't another dream. I am actually afraid that I might lose sense of reality in real life and go insane. Please advise.

Is it normal to have unpleasantness when forst learning. I did have one dream where I was very lucid and even had partial control of events (gave orders to DCs and some of them were obeyed. Also did some "Star Wars" type of levitation tricks, but it was more scarey than fun.

I am really scared right now that I will be stuck in this cycle of dream problems. I'm afraid to go back to sleep. I haven't had a normal night of sleep in days.