I had 13 LD's in a row... and it was horrible.

So I’ve been lurking in this forum for a while, but I’ve never posted anything until now. This just felt like one of those things you’d share with people, you know?

So tonight I go to bed with few thoughts about LD’s, it maybe crossed my mind once or twice among all the other crap I was thinking about. I fall asleep, and wake up several hours later, ofcourse forgetting to check the clock on the microwave in the kitchen, which is usually the first thing I’d do. I’m compelled to do a RC for some reason, and discover I’m dreaming! I tried making things happen, but I couldn’t. I’d open door and expect a specific person to be on the other side, but it never worked. Soon the dream faded, and I found myself back in my bed. Did another RC and bam, another LD. This one lasted the longest out of all of them, and was the only one in which I was able to get out of my neighborhood.

The process repeated itself over and over again… each time I’d awake in bed, do a reality check, and walk out into the living room to see a DC version of my father sitting at his computer. I’d walk out the door while he objected, try and get down the street, and find myself in bed before I could even get to the crossroad. In each dream, I had little to no control at all. I even tried breaking the window next to my bed to get out of my room quicker, and something came up resembling a computer screen saying something along the lines of “Entry not permitted”. I tried taking a gun out of a DC’s hand (he was a policeman who had stopped me for some reason) and shooting back at him, but the gun wouldn’t even fire. I told the DC version of my dad that it was a dream, and he laughed and said that was impossible. I tried crawling through the mirror in the bathroom, and even though I got through, I was still in the same place on the other side.

Pretty much the only thing I got out of the entire experience was a scary-as-hell old hag experience around LD six. I couldn’t move at all, and I tried to force myself up, and the bed would rattle around. As soon as I stopped, something from under me would push rock the bed back and forth, all the while distorted ice cream truck music was playing.

During the 13th LD, as soon as I discovered I was dreaming I stood up and screamed “I WANT TO SLEEP GODDAMNIT!” and woke up almost immediatlely afterward.

I’ve had LD’s before, but never like this. Preceeding tonight, my record was three LD’s in a single night, and none of them even resembled the LD’s from tonight, despite them all starting in my room, and still having little control over them.

Am I doing something wrong? I know people say you need practice with creation of objects and DC’s, and even dreamscapes, but I’ve had atleast 30 LD’s now, maybe even more, and I’ve never been able to control anything. Though I’ve been able to prolong lucidity using various techniques found in this forum, I think the most I’ve ever done was fly. And even that was pretty pathetic, I had to run like 40 ft. beforehand.

I apologize for the incredibly long post, especially as my first one.

I didn’t have as many LD s as you and never had opne at will, but alwais had some control about them when I find out I’m dreaming… I’d suggest you read the lucid cola topic… the only problem is how you can summon it without the ability to summon… have you tried asking your lucidity to increase?

Yes, I can increase my lucidity, and prolong the dream etc., but I can’t summon objects or DC’s or anything really. Even in incredibly vivid LD’s, where I’m fully conscious and aware of what I’m doing.

Hey CF, welcome to LD4All. :smile:

I have been able to summon DCs, fly, manifest objects.

But recently I had an LD where I was trapped in a room. Every time I left the room, I re-appeared back where I started. I went through a mirror and ended up back at the starting point.

Just because you have one LD like that, doesn’t mean others will be the same. Vividness, control, and lucidity can all fluctuate from dream to dream.

One aspect that is tricky about LDs is beliefs. If you believe you can’t fly, you wont.

I found passing through objects very hard to learn because I kept believing solids are solid. Rather than understanding that everything in a dream is a dream. :smile:

Find some dream skill that you think is easy and repeat it. You can then gain confidence.

Also when I first started LDing, I had a few experiences where I felt frightened. But nothing was actually happening. It was just fear of a new experience. I’m sure this will pass for you.

13 LDs in one night must be some kind of record!

Yeah, it’s all about you

Most things in life can’t be solved by the old “I believe in you!” speech

Great thing is, LDing CAN!

…actually, that’s frieken awesome

Just believe in yourself!

Also, you probably had a lot of low level lucidity. I get this, where i am kinda making choices, but i don’t make good ones >.<

Free your mind! *jumps across rooftops
lol or:
You do not force it to bend because you cannot. You allow it to bend and it complies. (okay it’s been awhile but you get the gist)
believe…in your…dream
…wow Matrix-y! shaw!
edit:13 lds? that doesn’t sound too bad… even if you lost control and it was horrific lol

Thanks for all the tips everyone, I’ll definetly keep them in mind. I wasn’t actually scaredi the LD’s, it was just being there and knowing it was an LD, yet having no control whatsoever was what was so horrible.

I want to post an advise, but I’ll just repeat the things from the earlier posts.
Anyway, I think you should try to implement the advises in your LD’s.
One more thing, If you’re using autosuggestion(telling yourself that you’ll have a LD tonight), try telling yourself that you’ll control your LD tonight as well.

Maybe you are just obsessing about the powers too much. I know you just wanna get going and do all the cool things you wanna do. But being really eager doesn’t really do much but cause discouragement if you happen to fail. You see yourself as in a state of not being able to do it. You take it into every attempt, thinking about how you’ve never been able to do it before. It’s difficult to not do that. But when you do you gotta try to not mind it and jut go ahead, Don’t think “am I doing it right?”, everything is worth a shot.