From: laura@nospam.me   
      
   "Pampalini"  wrote in message   
   news:1107726116.385626.228080@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
   > I haven't had any good lucid dreams in a long time, but the times that   
   > i realize i'm dreaming and start to try and control it, i'm really   
   > scared. Usually followed by the dream changing into some terrible   
   > screwed up crap, mostly a really annoying loud tone accompanied by my   
   > body feeling like it's being torn apart violently. I wake up a couple   
   > of seconds after that starts always, to my relief. What is the deal   
   > with all that do you think?   
      
   I think it sounds like a variation on the theme of sleep paralysis. There's   
   no avoiding the fear. You have to face it and go through it. Then you   
   realize that the big mistake is the initial fear, and the rest is just the   
   same fear spiraling completely out of control into full blown panic. Once   
   you've relaxed and just allowed things to happen once, you will be free. It   
   is perfectly normal to feel that you are in imminent danger, or that you're   
   seconds away from an attack by some horrible lurking creature of nightmares,   
   or simply that you're having a seizure or heart attack and are about to die.   
   None of it is true. None of it.   
   Ignore the fear. Disbelieve it. Relax. It is telling you nothing but lies.   
   On the other side of it is wonder.   
      
   I suggest you read up on the condition in the link enclosed below. It helped   
   me by affirming that I had nothing real to fear from it.   
   It may not all apply to you, since you aren't getting to that state from   
   being awake, but you should recognize enough of it to make it relevant and   
   helpful. At least I hope so :-)   
      
   http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/S_P.html   
      
   Good luck :-)   
      
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