brief history of myself I’ve been a psychonaut for a while, I’ve had a few lucid dreams in my life but they were always short lived. I never really put too much thought into them until I saw the movie Waking Life. About a week later I was dreaming, in a car, I hit a light, it didn’t work, I realized I was dreaming (it also made me think of Waking Life). I got really excited and then woke up (this isn’t what the post is about). It blew my psychonaut mind and I went to this web-site. A friend had given it to me a while back but I just bookmarked it and kind of shrugged it off. I studied everything I could to become lucid and I’m even keeping a dream journal.
Well last night I was dreaming a yet odd dream, and, I kind of half way became lucid. It’s like I couldn’t become fully lucid, it was a struggle. It’s like my dream mind was sucking me away from my lucidity, I also started seeing the type of visuals you see when you rub your eyes when they’re closed. I kept battling, I started trying to spin really fast and rub my hands together, but it wasn’t making me lucid. In my struggles I decided I was going to try and fly and do these things at the same time (Don’t ask). I actually started to levitate, and struggled even controlling myself all while not being able to get that vibrant, fluid, calming energetic lucidity I got like my previous lucid dreams and the one a couple weeks earlier that I became too excited in. Does anybody know what I’m talking about? Next time I may try verbalizing commands but I didn’t think of it at the time. It was as if it was very stable, a fight for lucidity I didn’t gain!
This time I was extremely frightened, then realized it was foolish to feel that way and I was in a dream. Then it just felt like I was underwater. It wasn’t full lucidity, but I didn’t stress to try and atain it. I actually thought of your post on relaxing, and that’s what I did. Then everything started fading, and it went completely black. As it was fading I kind of saw blotches of those eye visuals you get when rubbing your eyes. I was suspended in this darkness floating around, weightless, and it felt like I bumped into part of my house but I couldn’t see it. It just stayed black so long I eventually woke myself up, it was just too much darkness for too long! (Though next time I may just try and outlast it)
I also used verbal commands (to increase lucidity), but those didn’t work either.
I became lucid again twice last night and they all have the same results. It’s as if it’s half lucidity, and I can never get full blown. I didn’t battle for it like I did on the original post either. It’s like I become lucid but not quite lucid, it’s all heavy and drodgey. I tell myself to stay calm, breathe, I do reality checks (that work and make me realize i’m dreaming), but it still seems like the dream tries to dominate, like I just can’t gain that full lucidity. I’ve tried verbalize commands and spinning but they don’t quite seem to be working.
Any suggestions on what I do? (I become lucid and then I just start to fade to black or just become distracted and lose course)
The times I tried it they didn’t really work. I’m going to try it again next time, because it seems each time I become half lucid I only remember one set of measures to try by. The times I spun around and rubbed hands, that’s all i could think to do and the dream faded, not thinking about verbal commands, then a few days later I said j ust verbal commands, 2 different times and the dreams both faded into blackness. I’m not going to give up, I’m just seeking advice of things to do! And thank you for those who even posted
I became lucid a couple times last night! Once, I had a tooth fall out in the dream, and I knew it was impossible because I had all my teeth, and I remember getting excited but staying calm enough to try and go through a mirror, i touched the mirror but it was solid, but all the sudden i heard a zapping in my ear and it teleported me to a dark version of my room that faded and turned into a viewpoint that looked at an amazing volcano from a good distance, the sky was all purple, no blue at all, i was there with a friend, and was thinking it’d be crazy to see that volcano explode, and it exploded. i had many dreams after that, and i had another brief lucidity dream too… But I wake back to bed’d MANY MANY times, I slept like 14 hours (trust me, I needed every hour), and woke up MANY MANY times only to fall back asleep right after waking up (I don’t have to stay up for 10 minutes or anything, as long as I become conscious, I can fall back asleep and have vivid dreams that have higher chances of lucidity). I had probably 11 dreams going on last night! I’m becoming lucid more often now, mainly after keeping my dream log!
Dream logging is really the main key it seems (unless you’re a lucky natural!)
Yeah me too, I had a night - back in the holidays - in which I had 10 dreams. I writed them down in 4 pages of a homework book.
On average, I have 4-5 dreams per night (during the holidays because I sleep 12 hours every night/morning).
I had another lucid dream last night, but it was very shortly lived… after being in detention in High School with Snoop Dogg … hiding under the desks with him and smoking blunts… and escaping teachers and hiding behind doors like a spy movie to escape, i found myself running home to a home with no power, sister was there, she was saying something annoying, i hoped the power would go back on and it went on, (but wasnt lucid yet), then I woke up. Was about 8:36pm (I work graveyard, starts at 10pm), then immediately fall asleep and it feels like I’m continuing the dream but I’m in the shower because i’m cold outside. I question my dreaming and my reality check was to see if I had the ability to move my pointer finger all the way back to the wrist by itself, and it did. I decided to floating around, and after almost floating out the window. I decided to try and go through the mirror, and it was solid. But I heard weird sound FX and everything started turning with a hint of blue…then I woke up!
