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Creepy pasta?

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Creepy pasta?

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All creepy pasta aside (what a world, BTW), doesn't using nightmares as a RC set kind of a negative tone for the LD, should you manage to escape the nightmare by remembering that it's not real?

Not exactly the yellow brick road to lucidity, I think...

Probably good for those who are plagued by nightmares and need to get lucid to get out of them maybe? I'm no shrink, but I agree with Sageous on this one. Fear induced anything seems like a bad road in general.

Lucid dreaming is not something you should be banging out with a hammer by force.

It should be a beautiful experience from start to finish. From the morning, when you set your intent to have a lucid that night and butterflies in your stomach from the wonders you will surely experience. Through the evening, when you fill your mind with happy thoughts and all the way through the morning, when you wake up happy from a LD or some cool related experience, or just a good feeling, that you did your best and you are one step closer to your goal.

Happy and excited, my friend, happy and excited.

Good luck, and if you need any help, check out dreamviews recommended tutorials Induction Methods and Techniques.

Thanks you guys for the replies, just had an idea. But as you said OpheliaBlue it would be good for people who have consistent nightmares.

Already tried that, they don't give you nightmares, but one the contrary, pleasant dreams with nothing to do with them.

Hmm, this thread made me wonder ...

While I am not plagued by nightmares, but I know that guilt is a major motivator for me, so if I can only figure out how to feel really guilty over not having lucid dreams, then I could get lucid with a GILD technique? It has the downside of also being a negative emotions type induction method, but guilt really works for me to get me motivated a lot of times like for changing the water in the aquariums, ...

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Already tried that, they don't give you nightmares, but one the contrary, pleasant dreams with nothing to do with them.

I'm not surprised -- sort of reverse-psychology for the dreaming mind, I think!

Originally Posted by JoannaB

Hmm, this thread made me wonder ...

While I am not plagued by nightmares, but I know that guilt is a major motivator for me, so if I can only figure out how to feel really guilty over not having lucid dreams, then I could get lucid with a GILD technique? It has the downside of also being a negative emotions type induction method, but guilt really works for me to get me motivated a lot of times like for changing the water in the aquariums, ...

I'm not a psychologist either JoannaB, but, aside form deep Catholic taproots shouting, "Excellent idea!" from the
bedrock of my soul, I can't help but imagine that using guilt might be more negative a tone to set than nightmares.

Nightmares, after all, are visceral surface-scrapers that might scare you (and yes, may draw from major trauma or fears for source material), but guilt can dig very deep into your very being, your personality. I'm not sure you would want to add that sort of incursion into your dream retinue.

Or were you just kidding?

Originally Posted by gab

Lucid dreaming is not something you should be banging out with a hammer by force.

That bit should be a permanent banner across all forums, I think...

Originally Posted by Sageous

I'm not a psychologist either JoannaB, but, aside form deep Catholic taproots shouting, "Excellent idea!" from the
bedrock of my soul, I can't help but imagine that using guilt might be more negative a tone to set than nightmares.

Nightmares, after all, are visceral surface-scrapers that might scare you (and yes, may draw from major trauma or fears for source material), but guilt can dig very deep into your very being, your personality. I'm not sure you would want to add that sort of incursion into your dream retinue.

Or were you just kidding?

I was half kidding, and half former Roman Catholic serious. But yes, I agree that the negatives would probably outway the positives, which is a shame because guilt is a major incentive. As I like to say, once a Catholic, always guilty.

Originally Posted by JoannaB

As I like to say, once a Catholic, always guilty.

That holds even for Protestants who went to Catholic school during their impressionable years (me)... I swallowed it all.

This thread is getting so funky.

I hope the OP responds. Kinda curious about what he has to say to all this.