Thread: Lucid dream, the most horrible experience in my life. HELP!

Originally Posted by Insikt

Is there any way to force myself to wake up while having a lucid dream?

If I want to wake up I usually ignore my dream body and try to roll around and move my physical body. Another method is to kill yourself in a dream, but it's not always pleasant. You really have nothing to fear though because your physical body is always with you, so you never have to search for it.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

Wait - I'm not sure I understand. Do you believe that when you're dreaming you actually leave your physical body? If that is true (which I do not believe) then wouldn't you run exactly the same risk every time you dream? Why would lucid dreams be any more dangerous?

No… that’s not what I meant. It’s so hard to explain..
Of course I don’t leave my physical body. I’m still laying there in my bed all the time. But I do enter a different world while dreaming, a world created by my brain, right? And in this world, I do stuff like running and jumping, which my physical body is not doing. So in a way, I do leave my physical body, but only inside my brain. (I’m so glad that no one knows who I am right now haha)
And the world I enter is defiantly not this world, because I’m quite sure I can’t fly here. While I dream, lucid or not, my brainworld is as real to me as as this world. So basically what I worry about is being trapped inside my brainworld, to somehow not be able to get back. I mean I tried – so hard, but still I was trapped there. Scary.
No, I don’t think that lucid dreams are more dangerous than normal dreams. I don’t think that dreams are dangerous, not really – I’m just…worried.
But when I’m lucid I know that I’m dreaming. I am aware of that I’m inside my brain and that’s what freaks me out. I feel like I’m not supposed to be there. In normal dreams I’m also in my brainworld, of course, only I’m blissfully unaware of it. I realize that I was dreaming when I wake up, but then there is no reason to panic because I know that I did get back.

Originally Posted by Insikt

No... that's not what I meant. It's so hard to explain..
Of course I don't leave my physical body...

Ah - thank you for explaining. Now I understand. And I also understand your being afraid after that terrifying experience you described in your 1st post above. Anyone would be scared after that!!

By any chance have you seen Inception? A lot of people have learned some very wrong things from that movie. It deals with lucid dreaming - in a way, but it's also just a fictional movie and it takes great liberties with the truth. There's no such thing as a dream within a dream, and there's no way to ever be trapped within a dream.

Heh - that movie was the introduction to lucid dreaming for a lot of people, which is a good thing, but then when they do an internet search and start discovering that lucid dreaming is real, unfortunately they begin to think these horrible things from the movie are also real. We have to talk a lot of them down from this.

Originally Posted by Duncan

It is true that people die in their sleep, but it is generally due to a heart attack, blood clot or something similar, people don't just die - especially at a young age. I guess what Im trying to say is, if you are healthy you have absolutely nothing to worry about. be confident in your waking life and that wil transfer to your dreams. Happy dreaming!

Thank you, I’ll keep that in mind. Are there any statistics of witch state of sleep people are most likely to die in?

Originally Posted by Oreoboy1996

If I want to wake up I usually ignore my dream body and try to roll around and move my physical body. Another method is to kill yourself in a dream, but it's not always pleasant. You really have nothing to fear though because your physical body is always with you, so you never have to search for it.

How can you controll your real body while sleeping? That would be good to know, then I could just slap myself and wake up. What's unpleasant about killing yourself in dreams, does it hurt?