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Hi- I’m Sophia. I live in California. I have been interested in lucid dreaming for many years but have only done it maybe 20 times.
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded Andrew’s ten steps to lucid dreaming and started trying them out. I was repeating to myself that I was going to have many dreams, remember them, and become aware that I was dreaming. I definitely started to have more dreams right away. I had one dream which seems very spiritual to me. But over the course of a few days, I also started to have many bad dreams, for example where people were coming in my house and killing my loved ones. That scared me. I interpret it as being a warning. I backed off and stopped doing that technique of setting an intention to have many dreams and remember them. I want to have lucid dreams but I don’t want to have nightmares every night/unleash anything that will be harmful to me. Any thoughts?