 Alright guys, I'm going to do a video about Lucid Nightmares, and I'm really surprised I haven't done this already. In fact, I'm pretty sure I had done this video, for some reason I can't find it on my channel, so maybe I must have forgotten. So a Lucid Nightmare, a Lucid Nightmare is a really scary experience that you can have, where you're partially aware that it's a dream, but you're not quite in control, and this means that scary things can happen. You're hyper aware of what's happening, but because you're not actually fully lucid, you can't control anything, and you can't negate the negative effects of the nightmare. And this can obviously be very scary, because if you're having a nightmare, the last thing you want to do is to not be in control of anything in that nightmare. So I've spoken in other videos about how you can use Lucid Dreaming to overcome nightmares and stop having them, but when you're only partially lucid, and this is a problem that loads of beginners have, where they just aren't lucid enough to take control of the nightmare and actually overcome it. And so what they actually end up doing is just becoming more aware of the fact that they're having a nightmare, and that obviously makes it more scary, it makes it more vivid and harder to deal with. It can feel really scary, I've had a few lucid nightmares where I've been so sure that I was lucid, and I really thought I was in control. And then the next thing you know, something happens, like a giant flaming dog comes and bites my leg off, or there's like pins in the floor, or the whole world starts to turn into a sauna and it just keeps getting hotter and hotter. You know, there's loads of stuff, like you can have nightmares about almost anything. But it's especially scary and annoying when you think you're lucid, but you're not actually lucid, or you're not in control fully, and you end up just being more hyper aware and vigilant and aware of the nightmare that's happening. Which means that pain ends up being more amplified, you know, you feel the pain more when you're having a lucid nightmare, you feel a deeper sense of being trapped in the dream and a sense that you can't escape. And you also feel like it's hopeless, you feel really terrified and you feel there's nothing you can do. You know it's a dream, but you just can't escape. That is a lucid nightmare in a nutshell. It's very scary, it happens to pretty much everyone at some point, you know, you'll have at least one lucid nightmare during your lucid dreaming experience or, you know, your timeline. It shouldn't dissuade you from wanting to learn how to lucid dream, because there are actually a few ways of overcoming this. The first one is obviously to just wait to wake up and then spend the rest of the day crying. I've never actually done that, but lots of people find it really distressing. The second way is you could close your eyes. Now we know we've spoken before that when you close your eyes in a lucid dream, if you keep them closed, it's pretty likely you're going to wake up because you, when you're in a lucid dream, I've found that you need constant visual stimulus in order to keep yourself engaged and aware in the dream. Without that, you just end up waking up. And this is what I've found, at least, and I would highly recommend you to try this for yourself and see how you get on and see what happens for you. I've found that if I hold my eyes closed, I wake up almost instantly. At the very least, I wake up within 30 seconds and this is a very easy way of escaping a nightmare. It's also a very easy way of just making sure that you're only having the dreams that you want to have. If you're having a really bad dream or if you start to lose lucidity and you feel like it's slipping towards being just a nightmare, then just close your eyes. You'll wake up and then if you want to, you can re-enter the lucid dream by doing a wake back to bed. Or you could just wake up and enjoy your day. Or you could just go back to sleep and have no dreams, or no lucid dreams at least, obviously. We all have dreams every night. OK, so we're taking a slight narrative turn here and I'm just going to tell you about dreams in general. Loads of people think they have no dreams when in fact everybody dreams every single night. Now, this is a really common occurrence where people will leave a comment or they'll say things like, I don't have any dreams, so how can I possibly be lucid? Well, that's not the truth. What's actually happening is you are dreaming every single night. It's just a question of whether you're aware of them and whether you remember them. So the real question is not why am I not having any dreams. It's why am I not remembering any dreams. And to do that, take vitamin B6, write your dreams in dream journal, meditate every day, and just keep on trying to remember as many details as you can. OK, back to the original story. So, yes, lucid nightmares can be scary. They can be overcome by just holding your eyes closed or by doing additional reality checks and constantly reaffirming to yourself the fact that you're lucid and you're in control. So it's easy to forget that you're actually in control because when you're experiencing a dream, it feels very real. It feels like the whole thing is a new experience and it's all a new world. Well, remember what's actually happening here, guys, you're dreaming, you're laying there asleep and your mind is creating this dream world. So you are experiencing it and creating it at the same time. Well, that means is you just need to remind yourself that this is all you. The whole nightmare you're experiencing is you're creating that nightmare subconsciously. So you just need to remind yourself that this is all in your control. You're creating this. So if you want to change it, all you have to do is just remind yourself that you have that control. Tell yourself this is my dream. I am lucid. I can do whatever I want. And then in that moment, you should sort of snap back into lucidity and be able to take control of things. At the very least, you should be able to turn it from a nightmare into a normal lucid dream. Thanks for watching guys. This video and this channel was supported by my Patreon followers who are updated in the description of every video at the time of uploading. Please consider giving just a dollar a month to support this channel or just click the links in the description. You'll find links to various lucid dream products, articles, techniques and tutorials. 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