You guys may remember me from a while back. Life has been hectic and I’ve been going to sleep at like 4 every night. Anyway, trying to get back into lucid dreaming with limited success.
Last night, I went to sleep while listening to the curseluciddreams2 files playing. Note, I don’t listen to it for its hypnotic effects, but because this is the one thing that gets me out cold. Seriously, I usually lie awake for a while. In this case I get knocked out with gusto!
Anyway, I had a dream that I remember. It took place outside of my house, a little ways up the block. I was walking around with my girlfriend when I looked at my hand and saw that it was… well inconsistant. Then as usual upon attaining lucidity, I am thrust into the air. So I am convinced that I’m dreaming and I fly around and such. But my stupid brain tries to convince me that I’m having a shared dream, so I spend all this time trying ot convince my girlfriend that she is dreaming as well. I guide her through a few RCs and try to get her to fly, but this nets me limited success.
Suddenly, I get the sneaking suspicion that she is just a dream character. (Most of her RCs fail) I realize I’m wasting my time. So I start yelling Increase Lucidity Now! and such. Then I tell myself When I open my eyes! All dream characters will be gone! But nothing happens. I then scream stuff about increasing lucidity but none of my powers don’t work. Even waking up doesn’t work. My girlfriend feels like an anchor on my soul. Anyway, I drift away into unconciousness and eventually wake up. I call my girlfriend and she has no recollection.
You’ve perhaps found out a new method to make LD’s last longer… The GFALD (girl friend anchored lucid dream)
Seriously, it’s rather common, IMO. When you’re lucidity is rather high, the dream becomes very solid and you cannot modify it easily. Sometimes, you can’t fly, you can’t go through walls and mirrors, etc. The only method to regain control on your dream is to lessen your lucidity.
From my experience, I don’t agree. Increasinbg lucidity helps me gain more control, because when I fully realise I am in a dream, and when I am close to “daytime-consicousness”, my awareness of the fact that everything in a dream can be controlled, is biggest. But perhaps you define “high lucidity” different (as, a visually clear and solid dream?)…
I think he means that I was lucid in the sense that I was so close to my waking state that feats of amazement seemed impossible.
Actually, my lucidity could have stood some improvement. I felt that it was the DC version of my girlfriend’s presence that was holding me back. I can’t explain it. It could have something to do with the fact that we have had problems as of late. The kind of problems that cause you to forfeit your respective titles. Maybe my brain kept me from going completly lucid and mad with power so that I that I wouldn’t miss the meaning behind it.
I’ve had a few dreams in which I was thinking very clearly, like IRL, and the background was vivid and solid. It was more difficult to fly, perform successfully a RC, change things, etc. I don’t know if dream realism and high lucidity are related, cause I’ve not a lot of experience of high lucid states.
I find that the higher my lucidity the better my control over the dreams.
If A dream was so vivid and real that a person started to doubt weather they are in fact dreaming then that could lead to a loss of lucidity and dream control I suppose. In such a case it might be helpful to remind yourself that you are dreaming throughout the dream. Don’t just say it. Believe it. When you are in a dream even the slightest doubt can throw your dreams off.
The last vivid dream I had, I was climbing some stairs when BAM! It hit me…This is a dream. From there on out I ran around trying to convince everyone I seen that they were all dreaming (they looked at me like I was crazy of course). I tried to fly…but couldn’t. I tried to walk on water(from final fantasy X)…couldn’t.
But this girl I was with could. I knew I was dreaming, had control over myself (for the most part) but I had no control over my enviroment or the DC in it. Would this count as my first LD? I would say yes. What does everyone else think and how could I take better control next time?
