First a short explanation: I’m a newbie who had 2 LDs so far (quite some time ago) and I decided about 2 months ago that training the ability to LD must be one of the most worthwhile things i.e. have been doing RCing in a proper mode for the last 3 weeks.
Now, what happened today was sort of strange: for a few minutes I had the feeling that I was dreaming somehow and about half hour later I had thoughts or rather feelings (while looking at my environment) like “wow, how weird (unnatural) all these things made by humans are” - sorry I can’t explain it any differently. Everything just seemed so ‘unreal’, but not exactly 100% dream-like. I had the feeling of being somehow detached from the external (but only to a slight degree) - a really weird feeling, but definitely not unpleasant
Can anybody relate to this (perhaps in connection with Lucid Living)?
I hope this experience means something good for me (in connection with LDing)
it sounds like you might have had an OBE rather than a LD, it’s also possible that you dreamt of a LD like experience, be interesting to see what the others think.
Either way i would say you are close to your goal.
That happens to me all the time. I think it’s just about perception. The way I see it is that the waking reality isn’t any more “real” than the dreamworld (or the dreamworld isn’t anymore fake than the waking world, either way you want to look at it…). Everyone just has it in their heads that this is “real” and everything else really isn’t, so that’s the way it appears them. Sounds to me like you’re just beginning to see things from a broader view.
Your are right, it really sounds pretty much like lucid living.You can also try to do this on purpose.I can´t really tell you how to do it, but some things that help me:
-Be very calm, move slowly and not aprubt, breath deep
-Take a look around, than look for details, you might discover things you never saw before
-Think about how strange and unreal all this is, imagine you were in a dream, or perhaps a visiter from outer space who sees this world the first time
-Say/Whisper to yourself: “I am dreaming” “Nothing I see is real”
-I found it easier to do it outside, I walk through the forest is a perfect location.However, you can do it whereever you want
-Try it after you watched one of those confusing films (Virtual Nightmare is perfect)
-Try it after having an sensation you aren´t really used too.When it is cold in the kitchen and I drink a hot tee in the morning I concentrate on the spicy taste (yogi tea ) , and especially on the strange feeling of hot water running down my body into my stomach.I almost can´t stay away from LL while doing this
Sometimes that happens to me too. I can’t make it happen when I want it to, though. It usually happens when it is quiet, and there’s no one else around to be a distraction. I agree that this state of mind comes about from realizing that the world we live in isn’t as real as it usually seems to us.
Happens to me as well. Often I become quite lucid in waking life and think “all these colours I see around me are nothing!”. Sometimes this happens when someone is speaking to me and I start laughing over how trivial what they are deeply emotionally concerned with is.
I had the feeling of being somehow detached from the external (but only to a slight degree) - a really weird feeling, but definitely not unpleasant
) , and especially on the strange feeling of hot water running down my body into my stomach.I almost can´t stay away from LL while doing this