OK so last night, I dont have a very clear recollection of the events, but i have been studying up on lucid dreaming the past few weeks, writing down dreams, thinking of reality tests during the day, and hoping to encounter a “lucid dream,” which in the first place, im not sure is even a scientifically proven thing, and i dont really understand it very well, but i want to do it.
So last night i was waking up periodically through the night, and im not sure if i was dreaming waking up, because i was extremely tired, but at one point i remember thinking about lucid dreams, and i told myself that if i started to dream again, i would question whether or not i was dreaming.
so then I fell asleep, and it seemed like in an instant, i was in a dream with my parents and I where we were basically sitting or walking or SOMETHING in a city or building, i dont remember at all because of what happened next, but we were talking about dreams, and all of a sudden, another voice, sortof my brain talking i guess, said “THIS IS A DREAM” sort of suprisedly, and everything got really fuzzy.
I remember that i was trying to organize what was going on but it seemed to fade away and drift into splotches of color or something. i remember my whole body seemed to be stiff and sort of felt like it was twitching or like, fizzing or something. the feeling you get when you sit on your hand for too long and its all tingley.
so can someone tell me what this means for me?
First of all, lucid dreaming has been scientifically proven a long time ago.
The first evidence was given in 1978 by Dr Keith Hearne and Alan Worsley at Hull University in England. Here is his Dr Keith Hearne’s PhD Thesis about this experiment:
https://www.european-college.co.uk/thesis.htm
Utilizing a sleep lab at England’s Hull University, Worsley had an assistant attach REM monitoring equipment to him before sleeping. To signal when he had a lucid dream, Worsley was supposed to move his eyes side to side a specified number of times at the onset of a lucid dream. He did reach lucidity, and gave the aforementioned signal. The EEG confirmed that, though Worsley was fully asleep, he gave the signal as he had been instructed.
Two years later, Pr Stephen LaBerge of Stanford University conducted practically the same experiment, unaware of Worsley’s previous venture. He gathered several lucid dreamers, including himself; the signal was the same as previous, using specific eye movement to relate a lucid dream. They, too, were successful.
Since the 80’s, Pr Laberge has leaded several experiments on this subject and you can find the reports on his Lucidity Institute website.
Concerning your experience, you had a very short lucid dream when you realized you were dreaming. Generally beginners wake up immediatly, but it seems you didn’t woke up completely and you stayed in an advanced hypnagogic state. In this state, you often don’t know if you’re awake or if you’re dreaming. A lot of people are sure they are awake, because their mind is fonctionning like in the waking state. On the other hand, they experience sensations which are very near to dreams. Splotches of colors are called phosphenes. The strange feelings you had with your body are hypnagogic hallucinations.
This state is more commonly experienced while practicing WILD techniques.