(FILD) Fear induced Lucid Dreams

[IndigoGhost]

So many ILD's, so little reason why.

[Pantomime]

I remember when I was younger, about six to eight, I would have nightmares most nights, to the point where I would become afraid to go to sleep. I would remember nightmares vividly (don't most people?). I think the mechanism of fight-or-flight can help facilitate lucidity, it's a sudden shift in awareness, detaching the dreamer from much of the dream.

That general fear of dreams I had, I think led me to become lucid many nights as a child, though I think it could be hard to replicate that fear now I'm older.

[BigFan]

hmm, interesting that you mention this. In some of my LDs, I'll become lucid due to fear as in I'll trip and fall from the roof of a building, then somehow I'm lucid and standing on my feet near the building. I always thought of fear as one of my dreamsigns, however, I don't have many times IRL where I experience fear thus it becomes difficult to try to induce LDing using it. Also, I'm not exactly sure I would want to try and induce a dream where I experience fear all for the purpose of LDing because dreams affect one mentally and going to bed thinking of frighting things isn't my idea of fun

[Kar]

Ohhey, this is how I learned to LD. It's not fun and it wasn't intentional but it sure is motivating.