Hi all,
I believe to have had a lucid dream, but I am posting on here by using your experiences I hope to understand my experience.
Firstly, a little background information. I’m a 21 year old male studying at university, but currently on a placement with a company for a year. I started to read about lucid dreaming about a month ago and it took my interest straight away as I recall having a dream when I was very young that I believed I could control it.
However, I have been “scared” to lucid dream as I am currently living by myself and I have been reading all the “horror” stories of WILD induced lucidity with regards to his hallucinations and looking into mirrors, seeing horrible things. I was worried to lucid dream because I did not want to see this. Childish yeah, I don’t believe in paranormal stuff, but I 100% believe in the mind and the power it has to potentially make you go mad.
Anyway; here is my story, including the process I used to go to sleep, what I experienced (as best as I can describe) and what happened after.
The one night I got confidence to attempt to lucid dream (after reading and researching for a month every day at work) was after a very long weekend with my friends drinking from Friday through to Sunday evening. That Monday I was shattered and I came home from work and went straight to sleep, normally, at 6:30. I haven’t had recall of my dreams for the past couple of weeks, and I put this down to my irregular sleeping hours.
However, this night, I had a very vivid dream; however, I was not lucid. I was able to recall points in the dream that happened when I awoke abruptly at 9:30. I was very groggy and I thought I was in a state of sleep paralysis… so in my dreamy like mind, I thought it would be best to try WILD. I lay there dead still and closed my eyes but I can’t remember what I thought of as it all happened so quickly, it felt like a couple of seconds. The outside ambiance noises (the computer being on in my room) suddenly faded away and I started to hear a loud but VERY quick “woosh” sound, I really can’t describe it as I was half asleep and it felt like it happened so quickly.
After this woosh sound came it felt like I was being fast forwarded in a DVD and the dreamscape just appeared from a little dot in front of my eyes and it grew larger and larger in front of me. But it is so hard to explain, it was like it just appeared in front of me and it was all so very quick from the sound that I heard.
I somehow remember thinking to myself that, this experience was very weird and I needed to check if I was dreaming… I looked at my hands (which I have been practicing as my reality check for almost a month now) and I looked down and saw that my hands were very fuzzy and not focused, like if you were to have poor vision and not wear your glasses (I don’t wear glasses, but I presume this is what it would be like). But this was not all, on my left hand, my middle finger seemed to mould into my index finger and it looked very weird, creating four fingers (or 3 fingers, one thumb!)
After this reality check somehow I became so enlightened and I said I am in a dream! I instantly got shivers down my spine, It was weird it wasn’t fully vivid, I saw it was all wispy and wavy; I can’t explain it, like a ghost realm. I knew I was dreaming but I was also cautious. I peered up to see a door. I’ve never seen it before, but I knew that my friend Rich was behind it. As I walked through the door, there he was, sitting in his dark room, he did not look happy. As I went to speak to him and tell him that I was a in a dream, I felt a big rush of excitement and fear, when I spoke to him, it came out as a whisper, in a very croaky voice… but this did not deter him from hearing me, and he said “you can’t be in a dream, are you ok?”
I replied, but this time I did not move my mouth, I was communicating through some sort of telekinesis; and he understood me! I said that “I am dreaming, I can show you, I can fly”.
And with that I jumped in the air, but I felt very weak and not in control fully (the dream felt very fuzzy thinking about it) and I merely stayed in the air for a couple of seconds, before returning to the ground). But this was enough for Rich and he finally accepted that he was in a dream.
Suddenly my friend Brooker comes in and says that I am asleep in my bed, so how am I standing here. I got freaked out by this, but I kept my cool and I said that I was dreaming, and I can show him. He didn’t believe me so I said I can show you. So I did, I made a commandment to fold him up into a brick shape and fly through the glass. And he did, he folded up individually into a small brick shape and then I moved him back and forth through the big gothic windows, with a movement of my hand. I did this four times and smashed four windows.
When I stopped, he got out of his brick shape and he was delighted and he believed I was dreaming. I heard a knock of the door and it shook me. I went to the broken windows and peered down to see who made the knock. It was dark and there were a lot of unknown people just looking up and staring at me. I then commanded to show the person who knocked on my door, but nothing happened.
Frustrated, and without anticipation, I went down the stairs, as I went down the stairs I saw the broken glass I had smashed in the hallway, and three people standing there, staring at me as I walked down. I don’t remember walking past these people then I came against another door. Which somehow I knew my friend Tony was behind there.
Walking into the room, Tony was there and someone random was holding a mirror. I think this was because I don’t want to see a mirror in my dream, as the month of reading “horror” lucid dreams from mirrors – but not surprisingly, as it was in my subconscious, it came through.
I remember the mirror being 3D and I had to climb over it, not looking in the mirror, I climbed over it but then all of a sudden it went 2d again, and was against the wall. I know in my dream I didn’t want to look in it, so I avoided it. But someone compelled me to look in it, so in my dream I looked at my hands to ensure I was in a dream again and nothing could hurt me (I didn’t really consciously do this, my dream just made me do it, and then I thought “ok I’m dreaming”).
My hands still looked fuzzy and the middle finger was joined with the index. I gave in and looked in the mirror. As I looked in I just looked very fuzzy, like how my hands were when I did my reality check. I was smiling and my head was very liquidy. I looked the same; just had longer scruffy hair and I had lots of spots on my chin.
As I looked longer in the mirror, I knew I would start looking for something scary (because I do this in real life, I am curious) and this worried me, so I forced myself to look away. As I was forcing myself to look away I felt my eyes darting around the mirror trying to find something, and I hear a feint rumbling noise in the distance, so I quickly looked away and there was a person right beside me.
He seemed like he had a quite scary face (but I don’t really remember because I think I was coming out of my dream, or losing lucidity). I think he grabbed my shoulders and I said I was dreaming and then all of a sudden I abruptly wake up and have total vision of my ceiling in my room, like my eyes have been awake the whole time.
My mouth was also open, and it felt like I had my eyes open the whole time I was asleep, maybe it was the shock of what just happened and the disbelief that after a month of reading about lucid dreams, the one night I try, I actually think I get one!
I remembered thinking about the experience of the woosh sound when I was awake after the dream and I thought I would have been scared, but I wasn’t I embraced it as I somehow knew I was going into a dream?! This was very weird.
I am just worried that I didn’t have a real lucid dream as because I didn’t have full control over it, but I did manipulate my dream characters, float for a second, but hard to stay floating, and change the shape of my friend and move him back and forth through windows with my hand.
But did my dream give me the illusion I was in control, but I really wasn’t? Was it just another normal dream that I could recall when I woke (however, this dream was very vivid when I woke, but when I was in there it felt like I shouldn’t know I am dreaming and things felt eerie).
What do you guys think of this dream and the experiences I had. Would you say I was lucid? Or would you say that my subconscious was having a normal dream and it was making me feel like I was lucid (if you know what I mean, tricking me, can’t explain it). – or is that was lucidity feels like – I am very curious?
Sorry for the long read, hope you enjoy and get back to me soon!
P.S. this was the most surreal feeling in the world. Realising in my dream that I was awake and controlling certain aspects, but as I got more excited, I was restricted to what I could do. For example, when I spoke, I whispered or could barely talk, I wanted to float, and I did but I lost control. The only thing when I had full control over is when I turned my mate into a brick, I remember doing that without effort at all, and then smashing him through the windows.
Waking up and realising what I have just done was amazing. I am only questioning it, because I don’t know if my mind is playing tricks, as I have been reading up on this a lot, and I remember having a quite clear dream before my “lucid” one that I know I wasn’t conscious in it, but I remember it. Comparing the two, there does seem like a difference, as I had some control, but not full. I was not able to change the dreamscape, as this did not pop into my head at the time.
Cheers Ryan
