Quote Originally Posted by J.D. View Post
I beg to differ! Here's my first. 100% lucid the whole time. (The scary part at least)
Couldn't escape this scary one. Luckily I was able to wake myself up from it, unlike the last.
Most recent. This time I was able to overcome my fears. Which isn't always as easy as you suggest!
I guess it gets easier with experience.
Well, you do make a great point (great dream entries btw) but I still disagree I am by no means an "experienced" lucid dreamer. Yes, I have had lucids all my life (before I knew what they were) and yes I've WILDed about 5times but I'm no pro. However, when I do get lucid, the amount of clarity I experience is overwhelming. Nothing, I mean NOTHING could scare me when I'm in that state. If I saw something completely horrifying I would simply laugh at what my mind produced. Because that is just it, you are IN YOUR MIND and becoming lucid is realizing that right now at this moment you are sleeping in bed and awake in your HEAD!

I do get scared during sleep paralysis because even though I know it is not real, I can't move, so when a creepy goblin child like thing comes and sits on my chest and I begin to suffocate its hard to ignore to say the least. However, I usually WILD from that state so in the end its worth it.

I'm curious why you've had these nightmarish experiences but still knew you were dreaming, I really think you were only semi-lucid because in a full blown lucid I believe you should have total control or atleast be able to face whatever fake thing that is scaring you...