I’ve a quick question for which i hesitate to open a new thread. I’m not sure what happened, so i’ll just explain the whole thing.
Yesterday afternoon, i was having a normal dream. It went on as they go, i was in a big plaza, with friends and lots of people around. I got to the point where i considered asking “am i dreaming?”. So i asked. Immediately, without even a second to realize what the response is, the dream just froze. It didn’t disappear, i didn’t wake up, i stayed right there in the dream, very aware of myself being in a dream. Standard LD enter moment you’d think. What confuses me is why the dream went all dead on me. Nothing was going on anymore, people were just standing, lifeless, everything went from animated to inanimate. It became exactly like daydreams i often conjure up when trying to fall asleep. Detailed and complex enough, but without any momentum of it’s own, everything that changes has to be directly intentioned by myself, or nothing ever happens. Lifeless in other words. I just left it after a few seconds.
Should i just have stuck in it, keeping to the knowledge that i’m (or was) dreaming, hoping for it to “restart”?
If i tried to change anything, i’m fairly certain it would behave just like a daydream. Responding, but completely predictable, without the unexpected magic of night dreams.
Er, not really sure what your asking here, but I find things work best when you raise your lucidity (Palm rubbing, re-affirmations), and begin to explore. Don’t worry about the dream freezing like that, you’ll eventually enter a “Free-flowing” dream area that doesn’t feel “empty” like that. I know what you mean about the day dreaming thing…I get that sometimes; it can be really frustrating, and I always feel if I don’t let my lucidity go, I will wake up. Usually, it’s pure nonsense, and if I keep my lucidity, I have a FA.
Personally, I would love it if my dreams froze as soon as I became lucid. My stupid dream characters wont shut the heck up, and here I am, trying to become fully lucid, and their yelling things like “HEY! HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DREAMING? WHAT?” In my ear.
Cost me lucidity the other day. Didn’t help that the DC was actually a real life person. Was glaring at him all day.
I say it’s subconscious fear making your dream drop dead on you, much as one would subconsciously fear messing up their first LD. Just push on through. Once you have the knowledge that you’re lucid, do something with it. And just in case, practice outside of bed at improving your imagination, because you’ll need a good one to keep your dreams alive and vivid.
