So I had this dream a week or two ago… I can’t forget what went down, so I thought I’d post it, just because it was a very “what was that!?” kind of moment. I’ve been trying to get into LDing on and off for years now, and have had some very sparse moments of success, mainly due to being extremely lazy about it. I do seem to have some natural ability, though, as my first LD experiences happened spontaneously long before I ever starting putting effort into making them happen.
Anyway, I stumbled upon this forum a while ago, haven’t really posted, but have absorbed a lot of really good stuff (I’m going somewhere with this, bear with me). One of the things I picked up was the “pinch your nose and breathe” RC (PYNAB?). I’ve been doing it regularly for a while, and finally, one night while dreaming, I questioned whether I was dreaming or not and did the PYNAB RC. Air shot into my nose like a vacuum. Blew my mind. Couldn’t believe it worked. Never had I been so sure I was dreaming. I proceeded to do it repeatedly, because it was just so weird.
So I’ve totally put my faith in that method as of late, hoping to eventually reap the rewards of running the risk of having people in RL seeing me pinch my nose like a freak all the time. So, as I said before I went into my monologue, a week or two ago I had this dream… I had been dreaming for a long time, and at some point I decided to do a RC. But the funny thing is that right before I pinched my nose, my dream started to fade away. Seconds later, I was awake, staring at the backs of my eyelids, definitely not dreaming. BUT… my dream-self had already decided to pinch its nose and to the RC… and this actually happened, but not until the dream had already faded away. Does that make sense? It seems kind of hard to explain now that I’m trying to do it.
In other words, what happened was, I was no longer in a dream, but my dream body was pinching it’s nose. And I FELT MYSELF pinching my nose, and when I did so, I breathed in. But I was awake! So, if I was awake, and I was pinching my nose… what hands were pinching my nose shut!? My real arms were by my side. I know this because right after this freak occurrence, I sat up and got out of bed.
Don’t know what I’m trying to get back from sharing this, but definitely thought someone here might find it interesting.
It stinks though that you were so close and lost the dream.