I have had a period (6 months or so) of almost no LDing.
But as of late I had two of them and they were somewhat strange.
In the first dream I became lucid and I felt happy since it had been a while since the last one. Anyway I felt some strange “calmness” and I thought “Perhaps I should lay down and try to fall asleep”. As I laid down I almost immediately fell asleep. Everything became pitch black. And then I woke up in a new dream. This new dream seemed extremely strange and my senses (at least eyesight) was greatly enhanced. The leaves on the trees wavered very fast and very unnaturally and it seemed as if time worked differently or something. I had this extreme feeling of strangeness during the entire dream. Anyway I moved around and came inside a bus filled with people. After a while I felt a great hostility from the people in the bus and I forced myself to wake up.
The day after the dream I had a headache and was very tired, almost exhausted.
The second dream was not so strange (not that feeling) but I nonetheless fell asleep in the dream. While I was falling asleep in the dream I felt like I sunk through a black layer and ended up in a new dream. And I woke up with a headache and tired.
Have anyone tried this? Or read about it in a book or something? Please let me know.
You expected it to be weirder. You could have made it seem just as normal (by expecting it be normal), but lets face it - that wouldn’t have been as interessting .
I have many similar experiences although I don’t decide "I’ll go to sleep. It’s more like a blacking out or passing out before entering another dream (sometimes more vivid, sometimes not. I’ve learned to begin the previous dreams right where I left off in the last dream by increasing my breathing rate (to get more oxygen to the brain? ).
I have had this happen quite a few times while in non-lucid dreaming. I have never had it happen while lucid though. Its been awhile since I have done it, so I don’t remember if it made me tired or not. Althought, I am tired a lot so it wouldn’t be something that strange for me.
In a few of my dreams I have had over the past six months, I have been doing one thing or another and then had a thought about lucid dreaming, and then I lay down and think to myself that I want to have a lucid dream (little do I know that I am dreaming at the time of thinking this). Every time I have layed down and closed my eyes, I either enter a new dream, wake up, or my current dream becomes stronger. The reason for this is because it has the same effect as spinning in your dreams. If you have ever done it, spinning makes everything blur a lot, and even can become black if you spin enough. And when you stop, you will either be lucid still and in the same scene, possibly lucid in a new scene, you might be non-lucid in a new scene, or you might just wake up. I don’t know about being tired, might just be a coincidence.
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