I have been Lucid Dreaming on and off for several years and recently have come across another hurdle. At first, I labeled it as fear, but then as I thought about it some more apprehension or trepidation seemed to fit better. I think this feeling surfaced when I learned exactly how important your thinking is when it comes to Lucid Dreaming. Whatever I am thinking manifests itself. Good and bad. So for some reason when a situation arises where I feel as though I'm not in control, my thoughts wander into dark places. For example, say I'm swimming on the ocean floor and it gets a bit dark (as expected). This small annoying voice in the back of my mind says "Oh sh*t, what if a giant crustacean appears and tries to snap me in half." And poof it happens. My paranoid mind always tries to picture the worst thing that happens. Even if I were to take a walk in a park, an image of a bear racing towards me from behind the trees would probably flash in my mind.
No matter how hard I try to move through these thoughts and brush them aside, they always end up manifesting. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Because of this, this feeling that I'm not in control of my own thoughts, I've lost my original vigor to lucid dream. I used to think about it as a journey of exploring all the great places I wanted to go in my imagination, but now it's become more about avoiding bad thoughts.
No matter how hard I try to move through these thoughts and brush them aside, they always end up manifesting. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Because of this, this feeling that I'm not in control of my own thoughts, I've lost my original vigor to lucid dream. I used to think about it as a journey of exploring all the great places I wanted to go in my imagination, but now it's become more about avoiding bad thoughts.
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