Alright, i am going to make this quick b/c it is 2:18 am and i am tired. I wanted to ask the experts out there if i am close to lucidity and what might be causing it so i can focus on it more. I was recently on a short vacation to visit the family and why i was dreaming i had one of my longest dreams i can ever remember, but after it was finished i went into another dream or instead i believe it was a FA (False Awakening) b/c after the first dream happened and this FA was starting i just walked down a hallway of the house i was staying in. Instead though, it was just a straight path down with nothing but a mirror. I walked over to the mirror thinking that i just got out of bed, even though i hadn’t experienced that, and i straightened my hair real fast b/c i was a guest.(It was weird b/c the mirror was acting fine) Then i thought back to the dream which i was telling myself that it was the longest dream ever and that it was a whole 5 days. I then thought that now i couldn’t be dreaming there was no way and i convinced myself now i wasn’t dreaming. My long dream was i believe 5 scenes that were all very blurry and i can only barley remember very blurry and faded fragments of all but one day. The other day i was in my school gym with one of my friends and we were told we were going to play like 500 ball dodge ball where all the balls were stacked in a pyramid, blah blah blah. These sort of false awakenings have been happening to where i start to question whether i am dreaming and then wake up or force myself to believe i am not dreaming. Also i have had about i think it is 3 dreams now where i realize i am dreaming but can’t do anything about it, like i know i am forced out of my body and then forced to watch myself go through the dream like a story which i can’t control or even experience but just watch, sorta like reading a book but being there. Another question also, yesterday on the plane i was relaxing and was drifting off the sleep, and then i started to see myself in first person (which i never do when i am imaging something) and was sinking into a submarine piece that at the end of it turned into a black pit. I started getting my 1st person 3rd person feeling i get when i am in a dream and i was wondering if it was HI or something close. I started wondering if it was HI while it was happening as well then i woke up and it was one of those naps that felt like a second, but was really a hour.
Again sorry if it was really un neat and messy and well just out of order (not in paragraphs) I also am sorry for all the run ons i have probably created, as i said before it is 2:30 and i can’t put my head on straight.
You are very close to lucidity! Thinking about a dream while still dreaming is a very good sign, that’s the way I got my first LD.
It seems to me like your real problem is that you don’t really question whether you are dreaming or not. If you are not sure whether or not you’re dreaming, do a RC! The chance, that you are in fact dreaming when you even start to wonder about it, is very high. So every time you’re having the slightest doubt about being awake or dreaming, question it properly. Even if you could swear that you’re 100% awake, do a RC/AC! Don’t convince yourself that you’re not dreaming, do the opposite instead. Right now, I ask you to question: Are you dreaming? Why? Why not? How can you be sure? If your RC showed that you’re awake, how can you be sure that it wasn’t just a coincidence that it failed?
It seems like you’re having a lot of FA’s, a simple way to take advantage of them is to do a RC every time you wake up.
About your LD’s in 3rd person view, are you watching a lot of TV or playing a lot of video games? I read about people who do and their dreams were also in 3rd person. Have you tried “forcing” yourself back into your body, or controlling your body like a puppet or floating around and trying to get a new body? Just a few random thoughts, hope they’re a bit helpful for you.
Yes, like Leijona said your problem is in RC. You need to do them confidently and always do double RC just to be sure.
Few night ago I had a dream and I was like: nah, this is not a dream for sure but I will do RC just to see and to be sure… And guess what? I was lucid from that point on. That’s the level of awareness you want to have.
Also FA are very good way to gain lucidity, again follow Leijona’s advice and do RC as first thing when you wake up and if you have something like routine when you wake up[for example: I always check my phone to see what time is and sometimes I plug headphones and I listen music and sometimes when I have FA usually there is a phone that I had before] check if everything is like it’s supposed to be…
Just a quick note to add about RC’s. They are usually more effective when you make sure to actually question reality when you do them. Don’t just perform them mindlessly without any thought. It obviously depends on the person, but in general this method seems to work better.
If you perform an RC every time you wake up, once it becomes habit it should definitely help you out.
Thanks for the advice, yeah i have tried to get myself to do RC on a bases but i always forget to and never remember to, specially in dreams. I do watch TV and play a lot of Video games so that is probably it, but the problem is that i will realize i am dreaming but i won’t be me. It’s hard to explain, but it’s like i am just a little me is in my dreams that i am watching and he is the one to realize that i am dreaming, but i am not. I still don’t realize it when i am in this 3rd person view, i always see myself in 3rd person as well when i am fantasizing myself to sleep and have been able to force myself back into my body once or twice and just realized how to do it right before you posted so i hope that will help and thanks for the advice can’t wait to have my first Lucid Dream . Also i will have dreams where i am not actually controlling my body (like when i am watching it) it’s still like its another me and i am watching everything from his eyes. Then this ‘other me’ will realize that i am dreaming and i will still be in his perspective watching from his eyes feeling what he is doing, but i have no control and/or don’t realize it myself. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Try to do your RC’s whenever something happens which is typical for your dreams, like DS. Or when something unexpected, unusual occurs. This way is more effective than random RC’ing and it’s harder to forget about it.
I can’t say that I ever experienced anything similar to what you described…So it’s like…you are a DO, watching a DC who represents your body, and this “you-DC” realizes that he’s dreaming, while you don’t? And in other dreams, you are you, but still it’s like your body is split into yourself and this “you-DC”, and you’re only observing everything what happens and what your body does?
The first part is character. It’s like i am watching a DC that is me and i can’t control him
The second part is close. It’s like i am in the body of the me DC and experiencing everything he is, except he is controlling my body no matter what i tell it to do and also the me DC that is controlling me has a mind also that i can hear what ever he is thinking as well, but i can’t control and he can’t hear me. I know it’s confusing.
or instead i believe it was a FA (False Awakening) b/c after the first dream happened and this FA was starting i just walked down a hallway of the house i was staying in. Instead though, it was just a straight path down with nothing but a mirror. I walked over to the mirror thinking that i just got out of bed, even though i hadn’t experienced that, and i straightened my hair real fast b/c i was a guest.(It was weird b/c the mirror was acting fine) Then i thought back to the dream which i was telling myself that it was the longest dream ever and that it was a whole 5 days. I then thought that now i couldn’t be dreaming there was no way and i convinced myself now i wasn’t dreaming. My long dream was i believe 5 scenes that were all very blurry and i can only barley remember very blurry and faded fragments of all but one day. The other day i was in my school gym with one of my friends and we were told we were going to play like 500 ball dodge ball where all the balls were stacked in a pyramid, blah blah blah. These sort of false awakenings have been happening to where i start to question whether i am dreaming and then wake up or force myself to believe i am not dreaming. Also i have had about i think it is 3 dreams now where i realize i am dreaming but can’t do anything about it, like i know i am forced out of my body and then forced to watch myself go through the dream like a story which i can’t control or even experience but just watch, sorta like reading a book but being there. Another question also, yesterday on the plane i was relaxing and was drifting off the sleep, and then i started to see myself in first person (which i never do when i am imaging something) and was sinking into a submarine piece that at the end of it turned into a black pit. I started getting my 1st person 3rd person feeling i get when i am in a dream and i was wondering if it was HI or something close. I started wondering if it was HI while it was happening as well then i woke up and it was one of those naps that felt like a second, but was really a hour.
. Also i will have dreams where i am not actually controlling my body (like when i am watching it) it’s still like its another me and i am watching everything from his eyes. Then this ‘other me’ will realize that i am dreaming and i will still be in his perspective watching from his eyes feeling what he is doing, but i have no control and/or don’t realize it myself. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.