Thread: The thought of lucid dreaming gives me chills

Hi everyone, I'm a guy who's occasionally busy trying to achieve lucid dreaming for a few years now. Sometimes I try almost every day, sometimes I forget it for several weeks. Despite this, the thought of lucid dreaming creeps me out every now and then. When I'm actually lucid dreaming, I'm pretty calm and a little bit excited. But when I'm awake, thinking of lucid dreaming gives me the feeling that I can never trust the world to be real and that my scared thoughts may become reality if I lose focus.

My first lucid experience caused a terrible nightmare to happen, but I've also had several amazing, positive lucid experiences. I now know how to handle sleep paralysis without much trouble. Still, I literally get goosebumps from the thought of lucid dreaming, how is this possible?

Maybe you've found something you really enjoy in life and you should pursue it.

Originally Posted by n00bf0rlyf3

Maybe you've found something you really enjoy in life and you should pursue it.

Love your Spoiler man, seems as though only a few really believe it is possible though. To me it is key, and I really feel that it is a game changer.

For Stramanova, keep at it man, you might even have your first Lucid Dream tonight. Other than that I have to agree with n00bf0rlyf3. Check out his spoiler if you havent already dude.

Originally Posted by OneUpBoy71

Love your Spoiler man, seems as though only a few really believe it is possible though. To me it is key, and I really feel that it is a game changer.

For Stramanova, keep at it man, you might even have your first Lucid Dream tonight. Other than that I have to agree with n00bf0rlyf3. Check out his spoiler if you havent already dude.

I've had several lucid dreams in the past years. It's just been some months since I've been busy with lucid dreaming now.

It's normal that you experience ups and downs in motivation, it happens to most, if not all, of us. But I don't think you should be scared of it. Lucid dreaming should be everything but scary. Just think of what you can do with it: control nightmares, get to know your fears, solve problems, learn skills even. Having super vivid lucid dreams will not change the nature of waking reality, don't fear that. The worst thing that can happen is that you get what some call "false memories", which are dreams so vivid you can confuse them with memories. I don't have any of such memories though. But well, overall, don't be afraid of lucid dreaming, it can't hurt

I guess I'm afraid to lose control over my dream once I summon stuff that I fear. But I'm going to try lucid dreaming again anyway.

It's normal that you experience ups and downs in motivation, it happens to most, if not all, of us. But I don't think you should be scared of it. Lucid dreaming should be everything but scary. Just think of what you can do with it: control nightmares, get to know your fears, solve problems, learn skills even. Having super vivid lucid dreams will not change the nature of waking reality, don't fear that. The worst thing that can happen is that you get what some call "false memories", which are dreams so vivid you can confuse them with memories. I don't have any of such memories though. But well, overall, don't be afraid of lucid dreaming, it can't hurt

Hm, I think I know what you mean. I had similar feelings when I first started lucid dreaming - I think it was because at the time the entire idea was so new, so alien to me, and finding myself present in such vivid, realistic dreams for the first time made me tend to questions things in real life more as well. The loss of control while actually in the dream is also a big part; perhaps it's thinking about how absolutely anything can happen now, not trusting oneself not to think of negative things, not trusting the dream itself, etc. For a while it gave me chills also.

Like all the others, I'd certainly say that you should keep at it ^^ Initial lucid experiences can at times be as scary as they are exciting, but once you get used to it, especially if you lucid dream regularly, you'll likely become a lot calmer (knowing what to expect, having accepted the weirdness of it all) and trust it more, which in turn leads to more positive experiences and fewer nightmares.