Thread: If you have anxiety in the real world, will you have it in the dream world?

If you have anxiety in the real world, will you have it in the dream world?

Well you can. But you may not. You aren't always the same in dreams. I for one don't get easily scared in dreams but I will get sad easier in dreams. So you may or may not have anxiety in dreams if you do in real life. Really in some dreams you may and not in others.

My feelings and trepidations are transferred into my dream, sometimes magnified. It can be a good and bad thing since when im lucid and can do what ever i want

I never did. But then again, I agree with what NatDug said.. but then again, when i get lucid from a dream plot, i kinda lose all connections to whoever was in the dream.
My anxiety had never shown itself within my dreams.

I wouldn't think so.

But regarding your anxiety, I think it's something that everyone goes through. The more and more people I talk to the more people I realize are going through the same things as me. It's a stage we go through when we're younger. Anxiety sucks!

If you aren't already, start exercising. Work out, improve yourself. It helps me.

Good luck to you, shoot me a PM if you want to talk more

You need balance and peace in both dream and reality.

If you feel stressed out and that you have little control in real life, then in dreams you will have less control. You need to be balanced in both life and the dream to have true control.

I don't know what it's like for lucid dreams, but for dreams in general, I'm usually made aware of deep seated anxieties and emotions through my dreams before I'm consciously aware of them (*Whew* that was a mouthful lol)

My anxiety dreams include drowning; losing control of my car (and usually sliding off a road or hillside into water); losing control while flying; forgetting to go to work; forgetting my school schedule and failing.
For me, the out of control dreams signify just that: I feel my life is out of control and I'm drowning in my troubles.

As for the last 2 themes, I'm 37 years old and I dropped out of school in the 11th grade. I've never really had a "real" job- so those last 2 always confuse me. I don't know what my subconscious is trying to tell me. Maybe that I need more direction.

Once I learn the message of the dreams, they stop until I need to slow down and reflect once again. My dreams will recur with annoying persistence until I figure out what my subconscious is trying to tell me.
(Recently, it's been dead bodies in a basement)

Anxiety can persist in lucid dreams depending on how conscious you are in them; if you're close to waking-life awareness you might feel some; if you're less aware you'll probably feel less. This anxiety may be amplified slightly because dreams tend to magnify our emotions and place them right in front of us. However, it may also be negated by the fact that you're dreaming. You have endless opportunities to do things like flying, and this might make you totally forget about your anxieties. Who knows!

You've all been so much help. THANK YOU!

I get anxiety/trepidation and observe social constraints in the dreamworld but not in the lucid dreamworld.

My anxiety never appears in my dreams, but i imagine that it really just depends from person to person. Even in normal dreams i have always that feeling like nothing can hurt me, not sure if i'm the only one with this? But i am a introverted person in my dreams though!