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

I mean no offense to the OP, but this thread is just an eye opener how some people will continue to choose ignorance over awareness because of fear. In other words, for some, it's true that ignorance is bliss. It's a little surprising to those of us who seek more awareness in or waking and dreaming worlds, but to each his or her own. It feels strange saying this...but I wish you luck in continuing to remain unaware that you are asleep.

Originally Posted by nina

I mean no offense to the OP, but this thread is just an eye opener how some people will continue to choose ignorance over awareness because of fear. In other words, for some, it's true that ignorance is bliss. It's a little surprising to those of us who seek more awareness in or waking and dreaming worlds, but to each his or her own. It feels strange saying this...but I wish you luck in continuing to remain unaware that you are asleep.

Non taken.

Awareness of what? I did seek awareness, I had a lucid dream and I came back with fear and knowledge of that lucid dreaming is nothing I like. What is there to gain for me in trying to lucid again? What can I find - what can I learn about myself that is so impossible to learn during the day?
I’m sure you’ve all learned a lot from your dreams, gotten to know yourselves better. But dreaming is not magic, answers don’t just appear from nowhere. You already had all the answers your dream gave you, they were there all the time, only you couldn’t make the connection. That is what dreams do, they help you put the pieces that you already have together so that you can understand them. But that could just as well been done from thinking.

I think a lot. Once a year I go to my summerhouse in the country all alone. I spend a week there, just thinking and writing and looking out over the lake. My friends and family think I’m crazy. Why would I want to be all alone in a cottage for a week, missing all the great parties? I tell them that I miss them a lot and it gets a bit boring but I have to do it to get rid of all my stress. But in fact, I value this week alone more than all the parties in the world.

Dreaming may be the most effective way for you to find your answers. But that doesn’t mean it’s the only way - or even the most effective way for all of us. There are many ways to seek wisdom, non better than the other. It is easy to assume that your way is the best, just because it works for you. But in the end, all seeking has the same purpose and should therefore be valued the same.
For me, trying to have more lucids wouldn’t be seeking. It would be self-destructive.
I guess I’m a thinker- not a dreamer.