Thread:Doggygirl10/@comment-26480522-20141215190934/@comment-5679384-20150130051222

I'm so glad you asked that! It's very interesting, really. Lucid dreams are dreams where you are able to control what you do! So, basically, you fall asleep and you are dreaming, right? Yeah, well, if you can achieve lucidity (there are ways to do it. It's not like a gift you're born with, haha) then you can control the dream. It's VERY interesting and amazing to me. But it can also be scary because if you think ANY negative thoughts, it will turn intoa lucid nightmare. The scariest thing that comes with lucid dreaming is something called sleep paralysis, in which you are caught in between sleep and being awake. Your body is paralyized. Most people have no idea what's happening so they panic, causing a sleep paralysis nightmare. A sleep paralysis nightmare usually features a dream character coming into your room, but not a friendly dream character. This dream character is terrifying to you because, well, when you dream, you're using your mind (basically). And in your mind lies your fears. So basically this dream character will be your own personal nightmare. If you do not freak out during sleep paralysis, you can just close your eyes and imagine you are climbing a rope or leaving your room through your window. And then you are free; basically a ghost! Of course, you can wake up from lucid dreams; you're not stuck in them forever. XD

But yeah. That's basically it in a nutshell. There's way more to it than what I just typed, but I wanted to keep it short (it's not really short but oh well). If you want to know more, then try looking it up. :)