My Lucid Nightmares - A Danger of Lucid Dreaming (Lucid Dreaming Stories)
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Please note that my terrifying experiences with lucid dreaming as a child were surely due to my already anxious personality and the fact that at such a young age I was ill-equipped to encounter the subconscious in so direct a manner. I believe that, if caution is exercised, lucid dreaming can be put to many good uses, and can potentially benefit humanity in many ways. I do not, therefore, intend for the terrifying experiences that I am about to describe to discourage people from practicing lucid dreaming, but rather, to caution people to do so for the right reasons, and to be cautious when delving into these layers of the mind.
Lucid dreaming is getting more and more attention these days, it seems. If you're reading this, I'm assuming you know something about it, but just in case you don't: lucid dreaming involves learning how to regularly come to the realization, while you are dreaming, that you are dreaming. Upon coming to such a realization during a dream, you may then learn to control every aspect of the dream, creating your world however you like.
I can personally attest that the power of lucid dreaming is indeed amazing, and that the experience itself can be more enjoyable than many things (particularly if you are the type of person who would enjoy flying like a bird or having sex with whomever you wish, or having sex with whomever you wish while in the process of flying like superman/superwoman). However, having also experienced a different, darker side of lucid dreaming, I feel it my duty to offer a word of warning.
The world of dreams is a doorway into your subconscious mind (and perhaps, some would say, into the spiritual realm itself). The thing about your subconscious that you will do well to remember is that it is rather alien territory to you conscious mind, and may well contain things that will confuse or terrify your conscious mind.
Here's my story. When I was about ten or eleven years old, I thought up the notion of learning to lucid dream. I'd experienced a few naturally occurring lucid dreams, as many people have, and I thought, "What if I could learn to do that all the time?" I had never yet heard the term "lucid dream" or read anything on the subject. t was just an idea that popped into a child's head. Well, I was a child who had a voracious appetite for knowledge, and who's favorite hangout spot was the public library. So I did my research, and discovered that I wasn't the first person to think of learning how to control my dreams. I obtained a book on how to lucid dream, and immediately began to practice its techniques with a vengeance.
I quickly developed the ability to lucid dream every night. At first, lucid dreaming was a dream come true. Every night, I would float up out of my body, up through my bedroom ceiling (looking down on sleeping body), and then I would fly out over my neighborhood, through my town, and then anywhere in the world I wanted to go. I could change my entire landscape in the blink of an eye, or manifest any object or person I thought of.
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At this point, I want my reader to do one thing for me: do not think of a red monkey. If
you are like me, chances are you just thought of a red monkey. That's how
the mind works. Now if you had been dreaming, and had thought of that
same red monkey, that monkey would have become a real part of your dream.
And if instead of thinking of a monkey, you think of, say, a demon...
well, you have the makings of a lucid nightmare.
Once a lucid nightmare begins, it can become impossible to bring under control.
When
I was a child, I learned to lucid dream. After about a week of doing
this regularly, my mind began to unwillingly go to dark places while I
was in lucid dreams. After the first time this happened, with fearful
results, I couldn't stop it from continuing to happen... for the simple
reason that I would go to sleep afraid that it might happen again, and
this very fear planted all the seed-thoughts needed to make the
experience repeat itself. What is more, I was unable to stop lucid
dreaming. I no longer had to try to lucid dream, or practice any
techniques to make it happen. It happened naturally, although I no
longer wanted it to. I would fall asleep, begin to dream, and
immediately know that I was dreaming. Everything would go fine for a
while, then something would happen. The sky would turn red, and Christ
was returning to condemn me to hell eternally for my sins. Demons
appeared at my back, in close pursuit. Terrified, I would wake up, in my
bedroom, in a cold sweat. Relieved. It was only a dream. This time, I'm
sure that I'm awake.
But then my bedroom window smashes inwards, sending in a rain of shattered glass. Someone is coming in through the window with a long knife. He wastes no time in rushing over to where I lie, paralyzed, helpless. As I begin to feel the very real pain of him stabbing me over and over, I scream and try to shake free, and close my eyes tightly. And then...
Link: Enter the Nightmare
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Wow, great hub! When I was a teenager living in Hawaii there were many myths about the islands. I think I had a great fear that some may be true. I think that's where my fear seed was planted that caused my repeated nightmares just like you described. I would have control and everything would be fine then like you said all of the sudden things would turn ugly and dark.. I would tell myself to wake up and think I was awake looking at my room just as it was..but in my experience there would be a dark figure that would appear over me and let me know I was still dreaming I would yell but I had no voice I would try to move and like you would lie there paralyzed. It would try to suffocate me and I felt like I couldn't breath, I remember I would tell myself to wake up this is only a dream. Just as I was about to die I would wake up and really felt like I had a hard time breathing. It was so real and scary! That dream happened so often too! I hated that reoccurring nightmare.
I wonder if others have experienced the same. I've only recently began researching lucid dreams and it is a very interesting topic.
It's funny how lately I have had dreams where I know I'm dreaming and try to take control of them but always seam to end up losing control after a few mins. I've told my gf about it and she seams to think I'm weird lol I would like to b able to control my dreams but after reading your article I'm not so sure
when you said something about floating out of your body and looking down. wouldnt that just be you having a out of body experiance
We have a true talent at lucid dreaming here!
Great story, loved reading it.
Makes me think..
I can make a point here.
There is a difference between knowing you're dreaming and controlling your lucid dream and/or nightmares..
Practice makes it very possible to control an Aware dream and overcome nightmares.
It could be extremely difficult to people suffering anxiety disorders and OCD, these people find it hard to not think about disturbed or fearful things..
I often read about these people having nightmares.
I'm not saying you have those kinds of difficulty's but you wrote you had an anxious personality.
what you described about lucid dreaming, for example "leaving your body and been able to see it" it's sounds more like astral projection. you may not have the answer but I will ask anyway, can your lucid dream change into an astral projection?
Yes, lucid dreaming is one way to transition into an out-of-body experience. However, I don't consider those lucid dreaming experiences I described to be actual OOBEs. I have had many real out-of-body experiences, and they feel much different. In an OOBE, I am much more conscious, and the feeling is much more physical. There is a powerful, full-body vibration, like my whole body is a tuning fork vibrating at a high pitch. Furthermore, there is always a physical struggle to distance myself from my body during a real OOBE. It's as if my body is a powerful magnet pulling me back into it, and I have to struggle with considerable mental energy to pull myself away from it. These elements--the loud vibration and the straining to distance from the body--are missing from the lucid dreaming experiences I've mentioned, and so I don't consider them to be real OOBEs.
Woah this Kinda scared me.. im JUST learning to lucid dream and i can controll it for like two seconds then it turns back into a normal dream where i cant do anything. I only want to lucid dream to make up beautiful places, and experience things i couldnt normally. I only taught myself for fun, and excitement... Should i keep doing it?
I think I had a lucid nightmare too! But I never have lucid dreams I tried to have them but they never happen. I rarly have dreams. And I Havnt had a nightmare sense I was 6 or 7. I'm 17 and I just had this horrific dream.
First it was me looking at myself and I was staring back at me( it was kind of like looking in a mirror ) and the girl looking at me which was me keeping saying "I am not affrad to die" with confidence. But in the dream there was an eerie feeling like spooky. And next thing I was laying on my back looking up into a bright tube like thing and it was sucking me up. I actually felt me moving up fast and heard shaking and vibrating on the sides of my ear. I felt like I was being abducted by aliens, but then I realized I was dreaming and I opened my eyes as hard as I could and I awoke in absult fear. I believe it was a lucid dream because it was so clear. I have anxiety sometimes and this dream left me shaking for about an hour. What do you think about my dream?
I think if you buy the full lucid dreams fast track edition books it does say that they will teach you how to turn ur lucid nightmares into lucid dreams so that should help and as i want to learn how to lucid dream soon this story has now got the idea of hell and devils in my head now i am gonna probly think about as i dream as i wasnt going 2 before so this story could be a good thing or a bad thing I dont no!
I've had about 3 Lucid dreams. My First was a NightMare. I was in the middle of the Ocean, ( I knew I was sleeping an I wanted to go to the ocean) suddenly I started thinking of Dorothy an the witch. Suddenly the sky turned dark, an there was a house floating in the ocean. I was drawn to it. Suddenly the ugliest human grabbed me an put me in the washing machine. I Couldn't breathe an felt like suffocateing. I begged myself to wake up!! But I didn't. Suddenly I was in my neighborhood. Frozen to the road. HELP, I tryed to yell but my voice was cracky.suddenly I turned my head, a person in a petsmart uniform was there. He kept throwing things at me. Then his eyes turned Green an I was sucked into them. Then I woke myself up. I've learned to Become Unlucid now, I just sleep an hav random dreams.
I think fear is the killer. As soon as you feel it, your connection to your dream, or projection is broken (or worse - nightmare). I am still trying to get past it myself, but understanding the block, is a good start. I've had some breakthroughs by reminding myself of this prior to sleep.
Funny... i didn't know anything about Lucid dreams until I talk about my nightmares to one of my friends.. i'm kind of trap in those every night. I know i'm dreaming, still, everything is so realistic and what's more I know that once I'll be awake, I'll remember everything. Problem is, what I fear happen in front of me... Like someone I truly cherish having a car accident etc... And knowing it's a dream doesn't help me at all because all I want is just to avoid seeing those awful things, I don't care if it's real or not, I just don't want to see them. I think I never had normal dreams (unless I'm really exhausted and confused and sleep because I can't stand anymore not because it is time to). when I was young I had those in which I could fly and visit my school and my town from the sky... But I think everything turned bad when I was about 8 or 9... Since then I'm having trouble to control my fears. This year it's even worse because I just turned 18 and I'm leaving on my own, I just can't sleep anymore, I'm too afraid to see my boyfriend being smashed by a car or my parents having a plane crash or whatever. Do someone know how to stop lucid dreaming? I really don't want to play with my subconscious.. It's painful and I'm afraid of the results.
I believe what you have experienced is sleep paralysis where ur body lock itself in a position where to protect ur body from doing anything that u do in ur dreams. And u are in the state of sleeping in ur physical body and awake in ur mental mind. i heard all u have to do is to clench ur fist if possible.
I didn't know about sleep paralysis, but I don't think that is my problem because I have no trouble to move during my nightmares... I can even cry or usually I assume the foetal position, I guess it's because I feel more secure... i know I could just wake up, but when I'll be awake, I'll still remember everything so I'm still in anguish...
or maybe Ethan, you weren't talking to me but someone else (I didn't read all the comments hehe, my bad ^^') but thanks for the note though, I didn't know something like sleep paralysis existed... Must be very nerve-racking.
Thanks now Im scared tolucid dream
Sorry I can't respond to everyone individually. I think it is important to note a few things about my experiences: 1. I was very young (11-12 years old). The mind is still at a very formative stage this early in adolescence, and is thus likely to be more volatile, 2. I have a very anxious-type personality, 3. I was raised in an EXTREMELY religious environment, which would explain the appearance of demons and so forth in my dreams, 4. I DID overcome the cycle of nightmares and false awakenings after a week or two of sincerely wanting to stop lucid dreaming (and praying that I would stop), 5. In my early adulthood (19 years old - 28 years old) I have experimented with lucid dreaming off and on, and have NEVER again experienced the sort of horrific things I experienced with it as a child. As an adult, I've always managed to keep my lucid dreams more or less under control (granted, I still don't dabble in it very often, out of a caution born from my early experiences).
Thanks to u guys im not gonna mess with that lol
i have only ever had lucid dreams on accident some scary others were good. I too was raised in a religous home and with the one time i had an out of body experience i was pushed out only to be shown that my kitchen was over run by demons. At this time my brother got out of bed (we shared a room with a bunk bed and he was on the top bunk)and went to the bathroom and came back and looked down at me and i told him to get in bed and he did not answer I knew he heard me cause i was at the edge of the bed and we were face to face. He back into bed. I then was pulled back down into my body with the ability to still see a demon only now it was hovering over me. I was a teenager at the time so i knew the theory for casting demons out so i said in the name of "jesus you must leave" the demon then went flying out the window as if it were sucked out of the house.I snapped back to and layed awake a few minutes praying and rebuking what had just happend. the next morning i asked my brother if he heard me tell him to lay down, he told me no and said that when he went to the bath room i was laying down on my back in bed with my eyes wide open. that is why i personally am against forcing yourself into that realm. i belive it opens you up to be possessed and it can be very difficult to get back in after that happens. so word to the wise is not to force it if it happens it is for a reason kinda like a warning. I want to hear peoples opinions after reading this. please heed my warning and dont force it.
Once you become fully lucid in your dreams, you know your nightmare is not real, it is just a dream. A nightmare can not be a lucid dream.
hello, im maricris. i think im a lucid dreamer. im just 14 years old but i experience such thing since i was 13. i always dream the same thing, but i know what's happening to me that i even can control myself. when i was 13, i dream everyday and i know that it is happening to me.. my dream was always like this,, i will wake up between 2 to 4 p.m (im really awake on those times) ofcourse after you woke up, you'll go and return to your sleep right? then this is where my lucid dream come starts.ill return to my sleep. i 'm already sleeping but in my dreams, i will hear a girl, shouting. my position in my dreams was the last position and what the last thing i did before i return to my sleep. when i hear this girl shouting, my body will be paralized, i think she is a ghost in my dreams, then i will feel like she's trying to get me in a way that a wind was like trying to swallow me.. then i'll pray, I know what i'll pray, then i'll wake up after that, very tired, sweat comes out of my body.. my last position in my dreams will be the position when i wake up.. i dont want to be a lucid dreamer because of this and i have fear of sleeping because of this :(((
I want to lucid dream but I'm scared i might have a lucid nightmare
Hey guys, there is no such thing called lucid nightmare.
Because if are lucid, you know that you are dreaming. So why should someone be afraid when they know for sure it is just a dream. All you need to do is just wake up or better yet why not face the charater or the situation?
okay, so lets say you're having a lucid nightmare, can't you just think about a happy place, wouldn't your dream turn into a park? Because I remember at age 12 I had many nightmares, like my grandmother head on the side of my bed. I also had one dream where I was a ghost, not sure if it was lucid or dream, but I know it was scary. I was floating and I was backyard, then I saw the mirror we had backyard. I looked into it and saw my own reflection, except not my body, but a ghost. I woke up after that. SO was that a OOBE or just a dream? I'm not sure. Nevertheless, I can always think of a power ranger coming to my rescue and saving me. Now I'm 17 I learn more about these lucid dream. I want to control them, but of course reading your article. I'm having second thoughts.
Ive had very similar experiences and they also began at a very young age. I do not have a lucid dream and I have never read about any such training; however I can can usually control lucid nightmares. It is possible to think of anything evil and still become unharmed. I can either close my eyes and eliminate the thought, my body will then relax. The other option being; create a new, basic environment, close your eyes and instantly open your eyes to the new, safe place. I often choose a place with endless space, theres nothing there, but white emptiness. The first time I went there, was not out of choice. I was slipping into a lucid nightmare and somebody took me to this blank place and lectured me. The only time however I cannot control a lucid nightmare is when the devil enters my dream. Perhaps this is due to the Hierachy I have in my subconscious, the devil being the ruler of the underworld. Astral projection though is something I struggle with, I have no element of control and I have genuinely experienced it 600/700 throughout my life. The pain is real, but no matter how much of my flesh is eaten, burnt, cut away, how much blood I loose, how much I struggle for breath.. I cannot die. I have no element of control whatsoever in the astral plane, yet I plan to. I believe the trauma from when I used to experience it as a young child prevents me from enjoying the experience. I know when I'm there and I prepare myself for whoever it outside my door
WTF short poems, i came here looking for answers, this is happening to me and i want it to stop
hi I lucid dream all the time and I think I was lead, I didn't realise that they could be so scary all I heard was that you would have fun. I started learning about lucid dreaming and in about a week I had my first lucid dream, after a while I could have lucid dreams when I wanted, all of a sudden they started to turn, I would get a feeling of lieing in bed and could feel my body but I was trapped in the dream, another thing is false awakengins I am cringing just thinking about it, I was lieing in bed after a lucid dream and my body was covered in eyeballs, it was so scary, I no longer get lucid dreams and I am much happier and don't mind going to sleep anymore. before I would be scared knwoing that I would get a lucid dream, but now I can still have lucid dreams but they are less scary. Good hub
AlyzaLewis 13 months ago
Strange, I've never had any such experience as yourself. Of course, whenever I think of anything in a lucid dream, even in an attempt to control... it always seems that either the exact opposite or nothing at all happens. I've never had a lucid nightmare.