Lucid Dream Nightmare?

Ok, so I've been practicing lucid dreaming and have had a lot of success with WILD (wake initiated lucid dreaming). For the most part its a lot of fun but there have been a couple times where it has gone very wrong. MY last episode was definately the most terrified I have EVER been. I layed down on my bed and closed my eyes, entered dream world. I knew I was dreaming just as soon as I got there, but something was wrong, i couldnt move, my body wasnt responding? Now i was paralyzed and this black shadow figure (demon?) was zippin across my room, this is when i get really scared. This thing zips toward me and enters my soul. My body then starts to shake violantly and uncontrollably, Im screaming at the top of my lungs "THIS IS A DREAM! THIS ISN'T REAL! THIS IS A DREAM!." But my body is still shaking with what feels like enough force to throw me across the room. I suddenly woke up in a puddle of sweat.

Am I alone on this one?

This actually reminds me abit about some of my experiences with waking up in SP. I woke up being completely paralyzed in a kind of half-awake state. Unlike you however I was in my own room, even beeing able to hear what was going on in the background. I also saw a lot of strange stuff which really freaked me out.

If you actually were in a state of sleep paralysis you weren't able to get out of, I think it's not uncommon to have some kind of dreamlike halluscinations while in this state. And it's also common to think that something evil is close by, or maybe even being able to see it. (think I read this on wikipedia).

Either way your nightmare sure sounds terrifying. Dreams are not always easy to control, even when lucid in my experience.

Very interesting. Your nightmare seems so intense. I had once a lucid dream (WILD) but instead that I could control everything, some etnity was controling myself. I was flying above the ground, but I couldn't decide to where. But I was so sure that it was a dream. But lucidity and control of dream isn't the same. Maybye you had some slight disbelief about your dream control, or that demon could be something from you subconcious, who knows? Or it could be as Crumbs right said some dreamlike hallucination, I Also had one, in wich I was controled by some dream character (dark mage) and he didn't allowed me to move during the SP.

You guys do know that every character in your dreams is basically a personification of your own thoughts and emotions. Simply don't fear in dreams and it doesn't have to be a nightmare.

What do you just call it when you enter the dream-state and become instantly aware?

The demon is you. Realise that, and you might just become it.

Yes i read about sleep paralysis on wikipedia also and related my body shakin to that of the seizure that i also did research that can occur with night terrors. What makes these dreams even scarier is how real it feels.

Sigh, i think u are absolutely right, im still new to this and have mixed emotions when i enter the dream world, that day im sure that i felt fear when i was in the state of sleep paralysis, and then the fear just kept intensifying, causing night terrors and a seizure to boot. Ill keep what you said in mind and next time ill welcome the demon, instead of nearly crappin in my pants.

Thanks for your replies, they helped me see things from a different perspective.

Almost all of my nightmares have been lucid (it has been months if not years since my last nightmare). Once I try to control the soundings the dream disentegrates, which is not a bad thing in a nightmare. I am new to the lucid thing, so other than that I have made no real attempts to become lucid yet... if I find myself in your situational I will take your advice and welcome the demon.

It was Freddy Kruger :evil:

Spin, if you are paralyzed like you said that you were then close your eyes and envision a new place.

Night Terrors man, I get em all the time, its tricksy to get out of them, but if you figure it out once they never bother you again, I had a recurring one, where I was driving down the road and my car started to speed up and my brakes wouldnt work, and I kept going faster and faster until I hit a wall, and I dont care what anybody says, you can feel some sort of sensation, not exactly pain, but very very close, I wake up after these dreams and every muscle in my body feels sore and stiff, meh

Same here. WILD. The problem here is that its SO REAL. It's can't be called a dream, because its very unlike the dreamworld. What i'm talking about here of course is where you find yourself emerge after you see the nets (transition stage between waking and sleeping). Once body paralysis sets in, then you enter it. It's really different than any lucid dreaming or real dreaming that I've ever done. Everything is black and then things simply materialize out of that blackness. It's like you're confronting your own psyche. In my case the two that I can reminder have been highly disconcerting.

Ex 1: Before I learned lucid dreaming I entered this stage. And the goat's head hand sign (sign of satan) was leaning in on me. The hand sign itself was all that could be seen, and it was like an extension of some greater entity that was crushing me into submission with this great evil presence. Of course I woke up sweating and didn't go back to sleep for some time.

Ex 2: This one was an actual WILD. I passed the transition phase and immediately a face appeared on my left. After a second or so it looked down on my acknowledging my presence. It felt like there was some great power behind this face (basically an outline of a bald black man). It was almost demonic. And whenever I looked into this beings eyes (engaging it), there was this great rushing in my brain and in my ears. This being was quickly replaced with a white woman's face with black hair and a pony tail centered on the right. The woman was just as bad as the man.
So basically when I would engage these beings I would get the rushing, and when I ignored them by looking down or away from their eyes, the rushing would subside. Needless to say this entire time I was commanding myself to wake up (I knew where I was). I woke up with my face contorted and my jaw was convulsing like a jack hammer.

Personally, I don't have nightmares. Haven't had one in at least a decade. These sorts of experiences, attempted possessions, and other spirits or whatever trying hard to make their presence known are the only thing anywhere near a nightmare that I've had. I'm not afraid of anything, it felt, very convincingly, that everything was coming from these beings, and not from myself. So I strike a fancy that this sort of experience is definatelly worth talking about and investigating, rather than being some sort of freudian deception that isn't worth discussing.

Yeh i get the same thing. I realise my body is paralysed and just to make things worse there is black demon figure walking bac and for across my room. I try really hard to snap out of it but it is really hard, and when i do snap out of it i am sweating like f**k. I read on this website that it is common in sp that yu see a black figure standing over you and in some cases attacking you which i experienced once, it was pressing my head into the wall.

He was lucky i was paralysed.