 In this video I'm going to tell you three things to never do in lucid nightmares and if you stick around for this whole video I will tell you the most kind of important warning or the thing that you should never do at the end. So you've got to bear in mind that lucid nightmares don't happen that often but they do affect a significant amount of people so let's just get right into it. The first thing you should never try and do in a lucid nightmare is to try too hard to regain control. So what happens when you have a lucid nightmare is that you lose control of the dream you're often lucid to begin with maybe you do a reality check you spin around and you stabilize the dream to some degree but then what happens is something will happen in the dream that will cause you to lose control maybe it's something entering the dream scene a dream character something happens to you or maybe it's even a sleep disturbance in real life that translates into the dream and this has happened to me many times especially if you're traveling or in a noisy room if you're in a noisy room or if there's a sudden burst of light or something right maybe somebody starts a car at 2am and the headlamps shine through into your room it doesn't quite wake you up but it can distract you enough or interrupt your sleep enough that you will lose lucidity and so you need to make sure that you don't try too hard to regain control of that dream and the reason for that is that when you try too hard there's a subconscious kind of pushing back that happens where your subconscious mind almost persists your intention to try and regain control and it makes it even harder to gain control it's almost like trying to catch something that's constantly flying away in order to catch it you need to kind of relax and let it come to you this is very much true with lucidity and it's a really good analogy so don't try too hard to regain control of the dream step number two is don't become scared or wonder what's going to happen next like i've explained in many other videos your lucid dreams and your dreams in general are made up of your subconscious so if you lose control of the dream but you're still lucid what a lot of people contend to do and i've done this a few times when i was starting out is i would lucidly wonder what's going to happen next i'm lucid enough to have that thought but i'm not lucid enough to have control over the dream and so what happens is your subconscious mind ends up surprising you and that surprise can be either good or bad but usually when it's left to your subconscious mind to decide what's going to happen it might not always be a good thing and that's what can make lucid nightmares so scary is that you don't know what's going to happen next and when something does happen if it's not something you want or like it can be a scary experience because you're going to feel like you're trapped in the dream that's the definition of a lucid nightmare you're almost feeling like you're trapped in the dream and no matter what you do you can't escape that dream so really try and focus hard when you lose control of the dream but you still have lucidity focus a lot on making sure that you don't wonder what's going to happen next try and decide what's going to happen next and expect it to happen instead of wondering you know i wonder what other scary things are going to come around the corner that's a recipe for disaster before we get on to the last one which is probably the most important one just try and subscribe to the channel right now turn on notifications because i post videos one to two times a week about lucid dreaming and also make sure to scroll down and leave a comment letting me know what your scariest lucid nightmare was and also i'm actually really curious about something so settle this debate in my head that i've been having going on what is better a normal nightmare or a lucid nightmare and why leave a comment down below okay so the last and probably the most important thing you should never do in a lucid nightmare is to try and wake yourself up and you might be thinking surely if it's a nightmare the the best thing you can do is to try and wake yourself up to end the nightmare absolutely not and i say this was very high degree of confidence because whether the nightmare is lucid or whether it's a normal nightmare nightmares and bad dreams are often the most important dreams in terms of messaging and your what your subconscious mind is trying to tell you so if you wake yourself up you're completely wasting the opportunity to learn more about the dream learn the message behind it and what your subconscious mind is really trying to tell you so the last thing you should do is try and wake yourself up instead try and regain control or regain lucidity to the point where you truly know and believe that nothing bad can happen nothing can harm you and at that point it doesn't matter if you wake up or if something bad happens because you know it's a dream so and i've had many lucid dreams or lucid nightmares like this where i've been aware so deeply that it's a lucid dream but i've not necessarily had control over the dream and what that means is i can just allow myself to watch what happens without any attachment to it it's a very interesting way of understanding your dreams and of getting like a deeper meaning from them so please if you didn't do it before make sure to subscribe to the channel and leave a comment telling me whether you think it's better to have a lucid nightmare or just a normal nightmare or maybe even no nightmare at all and let me know why