I've always avidly defended lucid dreaming and claimed that it cannot harm a person in any way. I though anyone who said otherwise was just freaking out for nothing, maybe ethnocentric and just close-minded.

However this morning I have an odd case from my own experience with lucid dreaming. I wrote it down in my 'dream journal' with as much detail as I thought was reasonable.

Has anyone else ever had this problem? I've been controlling my dreams since I was 3 or 4 and I have felt 'odd' before after a lucid dream but not to this extent.
I'd also like to note that I do a lot of meditating and that I meditated myself to sleep as well as a second time when I woke up for a few moments in the middle of the night; it's automatic with me.
The point? I'm in the habit of allowing my mind to express itself and therefore hence the title!

In any case, there isn't anyone else I can discuss this with except you guys and I thought that I'd post it to the research section so as to help understand what the problem is and whether or not this is just a unique case.

Title: Could it be that the minds' incapability to create nightmares is a bad thing!?!

I never have any nightmares or bad dreams anymore -- because every time they begin, I stop them and turn them into my playground.

I did that with intense excitement and fun this morning and now I feel weird. As I explained to Jeff I wasn&#39;t just fighting the Russian pirates (yeah, Cold War Russian pirates..=P) but also for the power to stay in control (for example, in the beginning when I &#39;woke up&#39; to the fact that it was all just a dream I levitated up and down the stairs with immense pleasure in striking fear in my &#39;enemy&#39; <--(perhaps a negative attitude to have towards ones&#39; own dream character as they&#39;re &#39;a part&#39; of me, of who I am). By the end however, I could only jump great bounds but not glide... =S
And so I had a small headache at first (until I stretched like mad) -- but now I just feel odd as well as a strange feeling in my heart as if my blood pressure and heart rate was up just a little bit. It could also be the philosophical thoughts that were going through my head last night about love, life, hatred and death...
...although I&#39;m not in the habit of getting headaches from philosophy at all&#33;&#33;&#33;

Hmm...
In the end it feels like my brain&#39;s a muscle that wasn&#39;t stretched before exercise (it feels like both hemispheres of the cortex were pulling away from each other but not along the corpus callosum; just 2/3 is &#39;for&#39; the right hesmiphere and the rest is &#39;for&#39; the left hemisphere -- I don&#39;t get these &#39;brain feelings&#39; at all&#33. Too much imagination running through my head between philosophy, a would-be nightmare (or just a bad dream?) and lucid dreaming..
I feel like there&#39;s something wrong in my mind -- that old &#39;splinter in your mind&#39; feeling right in the center of it all (actual &#39;biological positioning&#39;..? Right on the left hemisphere in front of the motor strip instead of the usual center and sometimes at the top of the frontal lobe..).
Maybe it was just too much anime (I got Elfen Lied from Erik and I watched all the episodes in one day; a lot for me&#33.