a weird experience?

Quest for Lucidity
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ive only had maybe 2 lucid dreams in the year of so of trying, and today was one of those times. so ive never been able to become lucid in normal ways.

instead, sometimes when i try to sleep when im rested i will sleep, but im just in a dark area.

so bored today i decide well. i guess ill try to lucid dream.

but ive tried before in this state and never can. ive been doing this dark room thing since i was maybe… 6? im 20 now,

so im sitting in this dark room saying to myself. lucid dream, or trying to make light. or space. nothing.

==so my first qustion is…opinions on how to activate lucidity from this point?===

today some how though i did. i was angry and said “im sleep and i know im sleep. im not dreaming so what the hell” and i saw myself get out of my bed.

then took a first person perspective. it was cool. i phased through my wall and then jumped to the room of my house.

its actually amazing how much memory and detail your brain can store.
but i had problems. everything was slightly in slow motion and it wouldnt speed up when i asked.

also around the end i couldnt breathe and i tried to make a fire ball and it didnt make. after telling it too for…2 minutes?

and i wasnt shocked or scared or nervous or anything. i was actually pretty calm.

opinions?

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rofl

i don’t think this was a lucid dream… sounds more like an astral projection from one of the early stages of sleep. During the first few stages of sleep we have a deep dreamless sleep, where a lot of time can pass in what feels like an instant of just a moment of blank nothingness. What you described there sounds like an astral projection because you where in your room seeing yourself from 1st perspective, and one of the things that people find when having an AP is slow movement. The stages of sleep where you actually dream are the last stages of sleep, in particular the REM stage. Many people think they don’t have dreams but this is completely untrue, everybody dreams its just that most people don’t remember them at all which is where using techniques to improve dream recall come in.