Hello dream views!
I am just going to introduce myself, and to explain how I got to this site
As of late, I have been experiencing issues with dreaming. I have always had an excellent recall ability with dreams, and they have always facinated me- but due to my overactive imagination I am often partial to nightmares, and on a weekly basis I recall dream events and accidentally mistake them for reality. I've also woken up before and carried on with a dreaming mindframe: e.g. I was someone else. As well as this, I experience false awakening daily. In all honesty though, that has not really troubled me and I was not completely aware that not everyone was like that. This last week though, I experienced a natural lucid dream, and I experienced SP- which terrified me. I fell asleep with the knowledge I was sleeping, and then upon remembering my friend told me about the apparent negative effects of mirrors, I went to where I knew a mirror was.Though I woke up at the exact moment I reached the mirror, the entire experience was terrifying, and throughout it I felt like my real body was being watched. I woke up unable to move with lots of sounds that were not actually real, and it terrified me so much that within an hour of waking I began researching 'lucid dreams', and ended up here- which will hopefully be a place that I can learn to control my dreams positively, and avoid such a terrible experience occuring again (sorry my introduction is so long)