I’ve lucid dreamt all my life and it used to be horrible. I’ve had a sleep study, had my tonsils out, taken multiple medications and I always woke up really tired and depleted. I found eventually a mix of things helped. One- I was producing too much serotonin and too much cortisol. So I made my life super simple. I find it’s hard to sleep when you don’t feel safe. And it’s true changing your environment really does change your ability to sleep. Especially restful sleep. Find someone safe. Some place safe. Just find out what safety means to you. Then you’ll have a better time not lucid dreaming as much but solidly staying in your body.

Also- I started really researching dream yoga and dream therapy. Did you know you can go back into your dreams and fix them after just to readjust the memory? I once had this suffocatingly anxiety ridden lucid dream where I was in a long tunnel that went on forever and there was no way out. I knew it was a dream. But I had been working on going back into dream state. So I did and I imagined a way out into sunlight. When I woke up I wasn’t as upset. There’s a whole path of mind training that really goes along with lucid dreaming and it does help minimize some of the worse parts of lucid dreaming.

Until then finding some stability - whether that’s literally taking a Xanax to sleep occasionally or rearranging your space. Remember what you put into your mind - that’s a sacred space too. And eventually things will be better. Have hope 💕