I think I had a real lusic drem just now.

[WolfSpirit]

I just woke up. I want to know… did I just lucid dream? Or, because I’m thinking about it so much, it was false lucidity. Though I think I was actually the first, though a very small dream.

It’s currently 1pmish. I had around 5 hours of sleep last night and woke up at 6am this morning. So I’m exhausted. I decided to take a nap.

Now, one thing I’ve noticed happens to me is when I’m very very tired or just woke up and am falling back to sleep. I think it might be SP… Or something similar? My whole body gets tingly and I hear similar to how your head sounds when it’s under pressure (Plug your nose, hold your breath and pretend like you’re popping your ears to know what I mean) on occasion I’ll hear other things like noises. But I will continue to see black and be very aware of my body. I feel I might be able to move during this time. Sometimes I can easily and it breaks it. Sometimes it’s harder to. Usually I can open my eyes and break it but it is extremely hard to keep them open unless I literally force myself up. I’ll test being able to move next time it happens.
I want to note that I can seem to aid myself into this state if I focus in it.

Anyway… So this started happening. So I’m as usual (to prevent panic in case of noticing I can’t move as well as aid my quest) I told myself that “It’s a lucid dream” I told myself this a couple times.
It felt like, after time, I was rotating or rolling. It seemed like I moved from my side to my back but more upside down as if you are picked up or were floating. I kind of focused on this, since I had no site or real sound to use to allow a lucid dream to take over. I still kind of felt like I was on the edge of sleep. If I wasn’t careful I could wake up (and it didn’t cross my mind at the time but in retrospect if I didn’t wake up I might have lost lucidity at least)
I seemed to be able to move my hands or body barely. Though I couldn’t see. Slowly I moved them, as if testing the waters, and rubbed my hands together slowly, both to see if I could and also because, again, I know it helps with holding onto lucidity.i seemed to be worried about moving my real body rather than my dream self, so I was still well aware of things I’ve learned on here (That there is a dream body and your real body and that some people mix them up hen falling into lucidity)

I tried to open. I know you need to open dream eyes, not your physical eyes. I tried opening them at first but it seemed to be resistance. If my eyes were closed. That reeled more solid than the rest so could even be my real eyes? Or my subconscious making a resistance since I was knocking on the exit door doing it in the fashion I was (terrible explanation but I’m sure you get what I mean). I didn’t try to force them open.
Soon I seemed to barely be able to move around. And sure enough I soon gained sight, barely. I could seeny hands in front of me but it was like in the dark as if I was in a dark room.
I could crawl over to the edge of what I guess was like the edge of my bed and I felt the edges of the ground.
For the most part the floor was solid and black.

Soon I started thinking of the creepypasta I read recently, Godzilla NES, the bad guy in that, Red, is creepy and overall that story is amazing and indeed creepy. And I’m nightmare prone. I starting thinking about if that showed up. But then I actively reminded myself “No, this is a dream. That’s not real.”
I was planning on gaining more site - (like if I making the room brighter) or changing something I could see. but I woke up.

Immediately I scribbled this down nearly illegibly into the dream journal I haven’t touched in 6 months. Then came here for your takes on it.

And I also just edited this since I had made SO many typos as the title of this can probably show haha

[dB_FTS]

Well it’s really hard to say if it was a LD or not. Your saying in this is most important. If you feel you did have one then you did.

Ok, now few things… This tingly sensation, buzzing in your ears, floating, rolling over they are like yellow light on the traffic light just before green which in our story is LD. I have to say you are lucky to recognize the pattern and to be aware of it.

Now what you need to do is use it properly of course. Many people don’t have this signs or don’t recognize them and they struggle all night and nothing happens.

So I have the exact same sensations as you do. Depending on the feeling what is to do best I would usually do 2 things once I start to experience those things:

1. • if I got the sensation of rolling over or lifting up or sinking down I would usually go with it. So if I’m “rolling over” I would intensify this feeling and imagine myself rolling over in dream bed and waking up in a dream. Next thing I usually do is getting up and doing RC. If it’s a dream it’s a dream if not - more luck next time!

2. when I don’t get this active sensations when there is more like buzzing or tingly sensations I would usually get some kind of rushing sensation and in that moment I would let myself fall asleep with intention of waking up in a dream…

I hope this helps even a little bit. You are on the good track, good luck and stay positive!

[WolfSpirit]

@dB_FTS

Well it’s really hard to say if it was a LD or not. Your saying in this is most important. If you feel you did have one then you did.

Ok, now few things… This tingly sensation, buzzing in your ears, floating, rolling over they are like yellow light on the traffic light just before green which in our story is LD. I have to say you are lucky to recognize the pattern and to be aware of it.

Now what you need to do is use it properly of course. Many people don’t have this signs or don’t recognize them and they struggle all night and nothing happens.

So I have the exact same sensations as you do. Depending on the feeling what is to do best I would usually do 2 things once I start to experience those things:

1. • if I got the sensation of rolling over or lifting up or sinking down I would usually go with it. So if I’m “rolling over” I would intensify this feeling and imagine myself rolling over in dream bed and waking up in a dream. Next thing I usually do is getting up and doing RC. If it’s a dream it’s a dream if not - more luck next time!

2. when I don’t get this active sensations when there is more like buzzing or tingly sensations I would usually get some kind of rushing sensation and in that moment I would let myself fall asleep with intention of waking up in a dream…

I hope this helps even a little bit. You are on the good track, good luck and stay positive!

Thanks for the response!

Yea… I feel like it was a lucid dream. But since lucid dreaming is a by singular experience I don’t have any way to experience it in any way but going on head first. I never like doing that in things I do, so I feel very wary about actually calling something lucidity unless it’s very very strong and thst usually comes with time.

Ithink this was the first time I had the lifting feeling. I actively focused on it and allowed it to happen which seemed to make it stronger and when the head… Sound thing stopped.

Problem with your method for number one is I seem to be able to actually force my body into doing things. I’ve actually full on forced my eyes open in the middle of a dream and looked around before… Was interesting… (long before I was interested in LDs)
I feel there’s a good possibility of me actually moving for real. Or waking up to move lol

But I will definitely keep those in mind and try them. I tend to get that heavy, tingly, buzzy thing on a regular enough basis.

[dB_FTS]

Don’t worry about moving your physical body, I assure you that 99.99% of the time it’s just a feeling that you will move your body but you will not, it’s all a hallucination! Of course if you do it to early then you will move your physical body, so just experiment with that and don’t be sad if you don’t succeed in one night or if you actually move you physical body.

Every night you sleep and dream, every night you have a new chance of achieving lucidity!

Good luck!

[WolfSpirit]

@dB_FTS

Don’t worry about moving your physical body, I assure you that 99.99% of the time it’s just a feeling that you will move your body but you will not, it’s all a hallucination! Of course if you do it to early then you will move your physical body, so just experiment with that and don’t be sad if you don’t succeed in one night or if you actually move you physical body.

Every night you sleep and dream, every night you have a new chance of achieving lucidity!

Good luck!

Yea I know I can experiment. But the reason I don’t want to generally risk messing it up is because unlike most people here, it seems, I have a LOT less opportunities to try. I get in general 5 hours between sleep and getting up for work and only occasionally can take a nap once I get home. So I would rather not hit or miss when possible.

I’ll try the moving properly thing. Maybe it’ll speed it up and give me something to work with rather than a dark room of nothing. Because like I said - in this post I managed to move in the dream or whatever it was. It felt a little hazy but I managed to move and barely see.

[dB_FTS]

@WolfSpirit

@dB_FTS

Don’t worry about moving your physical body, I assure you that 99.99% of the time it’s just a feeling that you will move your body but you will not, it’s all a hallucination! Of course if you do it to early then you will move your physical body, so just experiment with that and don’t be sad if you don’t succeed in one night or if you actually move you physical body.

Every night you sleep and dream, every night you have a new chance of achieving lucidity!

Good luck!

Yea I know I can experiment. But the reason I don’t want to generally risk messing it up is because unlike most people here, it seems, I have a LOT less opportunities to try. I get in general 5 hours between sleep and getting up for work and only occasionally can take a nap once I get home. So I would rather not hit or miss when possible.

I’ll try the moving properly thing. Maybe it’ll speed it up and give me something to work with rather than a dark room of nothing. Because like I said - in this post I managed to move in the dream or whatever it was. It felt a little hazy but I managed to move and barely see.

Trust me I understand this, when I was student I had much more time to actually experiment but now when I work not so much time on the hand. BUT this got me at the beginning, less time, worse DR, less LDs and this made me very sad and my motivation dropped very much.

When I stopped worrying so much and when I remembered how it’s like to enjoy dreams in general then everything become easier almost as it was…

Only thing I can suggest is to get to bed earlier, well that’s logical but it will help a lot. Also if you get yourself more hours to sleep keep to that schedule because your body needs to become accustomed to that…

Once you get the hang of it everything will become easier, just remember - don’t worry so much!

[WolfSpirit]

@dB_FTS

Trust me I understand this, when I was student I had much more time to actually experiment but now when I work not so much time on the hand. BUT this got me at the beginning, less time, worse DR, less LDs and this made me very sad and my motivation dropped very much.

When I stopped worrying so much and when I remembered how it’s like to enjoy dreams in general then everything become easier almost as it was…

Only thing I can suggest is to get to bed earlier, well that’s logical but it will help a lot. Also if you get yourself more hours to sleep keep to that schedule because your body needs to become accustomed to that…

Once you get the hang of it everything will become easier, just remember - don’t worry so much!

I don’t enjoy my dreams. It’s why I want to lucid dream. I’m tired of the unsettling and bad dreams. =P

If I could go to bed earlier I would… but I can’t. Hence the hours I do sleep. No option on that one.

Ill get to it eventually. I’ve not been focusing on trying too much recently since I’m more busy with work and home junk than to worry about trying to LD. So this was a surprise and encouragement thst there might be hope eventually.