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

**Darkmatters** · 12-05-2011 07:23 PM

Lol ok, I understand!!

For me and for most people keeping the doors locked and having a smoke detector is enough, but I know irrational fears aren't so easy to lay to rest. If you WOULD talk to a therapist about it I doubt they would even recommend drugs or consider you at all crazy - they'd just talk to you.

But if you just want to not have lucid dreams then that's one way to solve the problem!

Normally people don't have lucid dreams unless they try to - most of us have to try for a long time before we can make it happen (no - I'm not jealous - really!

well ok maybe a little). I don't remember if you tried to have a lucid dream or if it just happened spontaneously - but in any event you did say you were talking to someone about Inception recently, and sometimes that's all it takes to cause someone;s first lucid is to hear about it or talk about it.

I'd say the best thing you can do to prevent lucid dreams now is to just not try to have any.

Just sleep like normal. Don't think about your dreams much - one of the key steps to becoming lucid is to increase your dream recall, which we do by keeping a dream journal - which helps us to remember dreams and keeps them forefront in the mind. So if you stop thinking about dreams that should hep too. (Lol though that's kind of like telling somebody "Quick! Don't think about elephants!".. )

**Insikt** · 12-05-2011 07:58 PM

Lol this whole situation is so ironical I can't help myself from laughing. I'm having a huge Catch-22 moment right now..

I haven’t tried do have LDs (how can you even “try” to dream, that doesn’t make any sense) but I’ve read about it and kept a dreamjurnal. I'll definatly stop that right away. It’s not like I’m some kind of superdreamer, I’ve just had one LD haha.