Hello, new here.

I'm fascinated by dreams and have had a few semi-lucid ones, especially since taking melatonin (3mg), which I currently take every night.

My feeling is that when I become lucid things feel a bit "wrong". I'm sort of in my own brain, and I'm aware my real body is somewhere else, and it's all a bit frightening. So I choose to surface out of my dream pretty quickly. (NB One thing that interests me is why when I was younger I wasn't able to escape from nightmare situations so reliably...when I'm in a nightmare now I just choose to escape and wake up, occasionally falsely but I always do get out).

That said, I have had a couple of wonderful lucid dreams, especially flying dreams.

I dunno...the whole thing just feels a bit strange. I worry about blurring it with reality, when I'm awake. I'm sure many people here have seen Rosemary's Baby, in particular the terrifying scene which is shot like a dream sequence but may not be; it's powerful because on some level dreams ARE frightening phenomena. The more lucid and vivid I get (now that I take melatonin) the more I feel I'm in some sort of twilight zone between reality and dreaming. If I start trying some of the techniques suggested here, i.e. questioning things when I'm clearly awake in order to bring that into my dreams, I feel like I'm going to go a bit crazy.

Anyone else know what I mean?