Talk:Warning About Lucid Dreaming/@comment-26394749-20171108202005/@comment-25458443-20180418204507

I hate lucid dreaming, but not for the existentially terrifying reasons here. I've gotten to a point where I lucid dream regularly and it's just boring more than anything. It's pretty exciting at first to heed your every whim but then you realize you're kinda stuck there for 9 hours until your meat-sack wakes up...and it's boring.

On the other hand, in real life, lucid dreams actually can be scary, and frequently become nightmares. You might think that's a contradiction. "How can dreams be scary if you have control over them?" But that's just the thing. Your brain is an asshole. You walk out of your room and go

''Gee! Sure am glad this hallway isnt super long and dark.''

Hallway becomes super long and dark.

''Oh shoot, that's unsettling. Only way this would be more unsettling is if I noticed a white face off in the distance.''

Face appears off in the distance

''Wow terrifying! Sure hope they don't start wildly running at me''

Face starts wildly running at you

AH!