Oh brilliant, 3rd LD since finding LD4ALL :D~
But anyways, in the beginning of my dream, I kept waking up, over and over and over, one after the other but felt much more natural then I had imagined. All FAs, at least 3-4 I believe. Each time I did my favourite reality check (which had never failed me up until this point) but it didn’t seem to work…
First FA
Sit up, blink, hold wrist up to nose, breathe, but can’t
‘This is real’
Go back to SLEEP
Second FA
Repeat the first time exactly
Third FA
Do the rc, can breathe a bit
‘Oh, my wrist is off by a bit…’
- Move wrist a TINY bit, try again*
‘Ok.’
Still can’t breathe
‘So this is real.’
SLEEP
Fourth FA
Do the rc, and this time can breathe
‘WHAT? I’m dreaming?’
Do the rc again, very successful
‘Oh boy-- ‘
The dream goes odd for what feels like a few hours…
Ok, so y’know the yelling “Increase lucidity/ lucidity X 1000” technique to gain more control and clarity? To make sure it doesn’t faze out and disappear? I believe that’s what it’s for… Well anyways, on the 25th of November, I had my 3rd DILD, but found a glitch in that little yelling thing.
I’ve always had a bit of anxiety about that, fearing I may actually scream it while I sleep in the real world, and freak my dad out (I’ve been told I spaz occasionally in my sleep and talk often…). But this shouldn’t happen because of sleep paralysis, right?
I won’t go into detail about my dream but basically after having a surreal bunch of scenes after becoming lucid, I dreamt my father walked by and annoyedly woke me up to ask what I wanted to eat. I was still partially lucid, but also very confused.
“I am dreaming, I was dreaming, (I’m STILL dreaming?) Go back to sleep, go back to sleep…” it was very confusing, because of the muddled thoughts.
Was my general thought process, I wanted to go back to my “dream” within my dream because I THINK I might I met my spirit guide within it, I’m not absolutely sure what it is but it was “Spiritual-y” enough to me to be…(as I said, a very, VERY odd dream before this point).
So I start to yell “LUCIDTY X 1000!” And my “father” immediately scolded me from the other room for yelling in the house, my thoughts muddled, it startled me and my dream fazed out…Too back the yelling didn’t help stabilize it…
My questions are, In False awakenings, if the reality check doesn’t work, how can you be sure? The finger-through-the-hand RC never seems to work for me, I did it once before in a dream and it didn’t work there. I did the try-to-float one once, failed as well. And I never seem to have mirrors, words (except once, but I was lucid already) or clocks in my dreams, they always seem to be overlooked and generally missed as colour blobs replacing them… Insignificant and unnoticeable.
So the breathing one always seems to be my only choice…
And for the yelling, should I still try to yell “physically” in my dreams, and just hope I don’t in real life? Or should I try to scream inwardly in my dreams (which didn’t work the first time I tried…) so I don’t run the risk of yelling IRL?
SO SORRY for the long post~…
Much thanks to anyone who is willing to help~!
-Talon.