Good evening people.
I’m glad (and not surprised) to find this website since I have some stuff I want to discuss but everytime I ask any friend of mine about this topic (I can count the amounts with one hand) the conversation tends to be a short one. I have some lucid dreams too, but rarerly and although I enjoy them, I never did any attempt to get them intentionally yet. When I was a kid, I had them more often and although it would be nice to experience it more frequently, that is not the reason I’m typing this now here. I have some questions you might know how to answer. (yea, this is another post like that…)
I early got an ability to quickly get out of dreams without any kind of method, simply at will. I never developed this on purpose, since I treasure dreams so much that I almost never want to get out of them even if they tend to be too random or nightmarish. These too can be quite interesting and exciting not to mention that whatever event I saw these occasions, they tend to be harmless to me and I was usually just a bystander. But even on the time when I needed to do combat it was no problem;) The dreams that made me quit are usually eiher featured a sudden instant scare that was so powerful that I aborted everything by reflex, or the ones that were not just grose but boring too and I didn’t even want to see where they were going.
But nowdays I can get out of dreams a bit too easily to say the least… Even that much that I don’t even have the chance to make up my mind about it. What I mean is that most times, the moment I get a hunch of awareness in dreams, the danger of waking up suddeny rises way too high it usually results in a quick awakening even if the dream I’m having is heavenly. The moment when I realize that I can not just perform well, but even take control of the events is unstoppably leading me to wake up to reality in a few seconds. And that bothers me, since I want to dream on, to stay there even if it’s not too grand or even pointless. I would rather stay especially when I achieved lucidity. Sometimes it is so crisp how reality creeps in as I’m starting to shift out. (well actually it’s the opposite, my vision usually goes blurry and my hearing gradually leaves me as the things within my hands become weightless…) And to make things worse, it usually tends to be at a great part or just when I’m about to do something awesome. It’s so irritating especially knowing that I won’t be going back to continue whatever good stuff I was about to do.
Do you know anything to solve this problem and somehow stop the seemingly irreversible course forcing me out of my dream?
Another thing that might not be that common thank god, but can be just as irritating: When the dream is getting good, and again something cool is about to happen, I can get sidetracked by something that is totally irrevelant and what I wouldn’t even bother with in reality especially in a situation like that.
Like when I stop to go with people and start walking back for stupid reasons for example because I suddenly remember that I left my meaningless something… like my mobile phone at home (which sometimes I intentionally don’t even take with me when I don’t have too much space in my pockets IRL). Even if I was about to go out for like 5 min, I go back and start searching the place for an item that might not even be there or even exist in the dream… But I search for long minutes and the dream turns into a dull boring search until it’s simply over (I never find the item).
A lot of things can ignite this from random people asking me a favor to help them retrieve whatever they need to, or me getting the bright idea to give others something… etc. And when I wake up, I ask myself why the hell did I do that? Instead of starting to do a sometimes hellofa fun activity, or something seemingly very important, I can completely waste my dream with getting into a loop of irrevelant activities like that.
Now, I don’t expect anything, but if some of you experienced the same or have anything to say that came to his/her mind they are most certainly welcome.