Okay, so three nights ago, (i haven’t been near a computer since then) I thought I had a dream, but now I’m not so sure. I was laying in bed, after an hour of staying awake for WBTB, and I kept repeating within my head: “What ever happens next is not real.” I eventually found myself standing in a room that kind of looked like it was on a space ship in Star Wars. I had no control over myself whatsoever, but I could feel what I touched and what happened to me. The strange part is that I could also, at the same time, feel myself lying in bed.
But, anyway, I looked around and saw a dagger on a table (to give you an image, it was a steel dagger from Skyrim). I grabbed the dagger, then exited the room, swinging it around. As i was passing through the doorway, I felt the dagger hit something solid with its tip. The object was behind me, at about my forehead’s height. I stepped out into the hallway and saw a man pass through the doorway after me, holding his forehead and giving me a death stare. I studied his face before he turned to walk away, and at that moment, I realized that this man wasn’t inside the room, as I had noticed no people earlier. I thought to myself: “Wait a second!.. You’re. Not. Real!” For some reason, I wanted to kill the man with the dagger. (probably because, since he wasn’t real, murder wouldn’t matter) As I tried to dash after the man (My first action that would actually have been under my control), it seemed like invisible barriers closed in on all sides, and no matter how fast I was running, I was suspended in place. My entire body started to tingle violently and I next found myself laying in bed, staring at the ceiling.
What I’m trying to ask is: Was that a LD situation that I didn’t stabilize, or was it HH that I shouldn’t have involved myself in?
That sounds like an unstable LD to me. Usually HH doesn’t get anywhere near as detailed. You might see the images, but generally you’d have a harder time feeling things. Also, when it comes to HH you would have probably snapped out of it by jumping in quite so soon. It actually sounds like you didn’t quite start lucid, but got it near the end. Taking control without stabilization is most likely what made you lose it.
HH are things that your senses can catch up, but they may be unrelated to each other. You may hear a noise, see some images, fell the touching of something and etc.
But you aren’t really inside there when you get a HH, I think you had a real dream there, however the lucidity part of it seems to be really short or maybe false or half lucid… For me, when we do things like “For some reason, I wanted to kill the man with the dagger.” it seems an “unlucid” reaction for me…
Still, you could learn to chain the dream after you woke up, it’s not hard and very useful. And I don’t think you screwed the LD up, every experience is welcome, and you will be more used to how to deal with the dreaming state.
I’m not sure I’d call it normal but it certainly isn’t uncommon. I notice it most either when I’m at the beginning of an unstable dream like during WILD attempts or when I’m beginning to lose a dream.
I had similar experience but I was deep in a lucid dream when this happened and it was because I fell asleep in very bad position and by right arm started to hurt and I could felt that in a dream, somehow I shared that pain with one of the DC and in that moment I didn’t felt pain but then DC said to me that I’m hurting him and I stopped and the pain was back. After few seconds I woke up and I didn’t feel my right arm for few minutes because I was lying on it…