I’m sure this has been brought up before, but I just have to tell my story… This morning I’ve had the longest lucid dream ever! I’ve never in my life been so long i my lucid dream, awake and fully aware that it’s a dream.
This “morning” I set my clock to at ring 15:35, 1½ hour to sleep and try to get a lucid dream, 1½ hour is just enough for me to start my REM sleep and for my dream to really kick in. Usually I have a lucid dream every second night, I’ve been practicing LD for about 4 years now, power napping almost each day, and usually I recall 2-4 dream every night. Usually I wake up just after 5 minutes or maximum 20 minutes, or MAXIMUM 40 minutes of lucid dreaming. But this time! man, waking up 15:35 and I didn’t set my alarm again, I woke up at precisely 18:58! Over 3 hours of lucid dreaming, this was many hours ago now… but I still recall all of it (95%…)
After I first woke up 15:35, I started the normal routine by going through my script dream (robbing a bank)… maximum 1-3 minutes later I was dreaming again - dreaming lucid in the bank. But quickly changed the location, I’ve NEVER been at this level before, it was like being awake but still lucid. Usually my dream world changes, I usually have a hard time staying in the same place, or not thinking of something else that would trigger a DC to do something else, and screw up my LD. This time I felt in complete control, not having second thoughts - or not believing myself and thoughts flying away in another direction.
I really tried to watch the walls and colors of my dream, but still it really looked like real life - the only thing that really couldn’t lie was timing and my thoughts did change the surroundings and people (and the gravity).
Have any of you been lucid this long? I didn’t even have trouble having sex this time (lol), which I’ll usually wake up in a second. How long have you been lucid? and do any of you have better tricks staying lucid? (I woke up by my flatmate going to the toilet… bastard! )
Oh yeah, I did curse him in my head for a few minutes when I woke up hehe Good thing for him he didn’t enter my room at that point
Had to look up VILD at wikipedia, but yeah it seems like the same method, though I don’t think in words as much, I first walk around in the bank - trying to remember all details around me. Going back to the start again and again, only takes maximum 30 seconds to go through it. I first start up by seeing myself in the corner (from outside), saying to myself “I have a gun in my inner pocket”, then I’m going into myself and check if it’s there, then I walk around in the bank - over and over again.
Trying really hard to concentrate not to have second thoughts, or thoughts that differ from the script. If I do, I try to make my sentences smaller and smaller, like “I’m in the corner, do I have a gun?” then a sound from real world outside is annoying me. “What is that sound?” will be “what is th…” cut. “I’m in the corner…” again, “what i…” “I’m in the corner” like that, all the way through until I hit the stage where you actually can see your dream while half awake, then I stop talking to myself and only try to visualize it.
And those words “do I have a gun” usually triggers the hole LD. hehe I know it’s maybe a horrible thing to make a robbery, but I just don’t care at all when dreaming, this is MY world LOL
Well I have to say, I must have done this 100s of times… since 2002/2003 I’ve used this scripted dream, and a lot of times I forget the dream script when I’m at the stage where you’re half-awake and end up elsewhere - and ending up not figuring out it’s a dream.
But I can clearly figure out when I hit this stage, it feels like the blood in my head goes away, like my head weights nothing - or almost about to pass out. Something just happened, a weird sensation. Or the feeling if you’re in school and really tired, and your head nods and you’re just about to pass out.
But the point is, this is the stage I really have to visualize and keep on track, else it’s not gonna work for me. Maybe it’s easier to start visualizing your dream script at this point, so you don’t have to think or clearing your head before that.
Did you do anything different than your normal routine?
Some other people on forum have also reported LDs longer than 1 hour. There is some debate about if this is possible because the general sleep cycle has been observed to be about 90 minutes in length, an LD that is longer than this would be surprising.
I find it hard to estimate the duration of longer LDs. Short LDs are easier to guestimate.
Thank you it’s was pretty awesome afterwards! Thou boring not having anyone at home knew what I was talking about
But my routine was the same… Usually I first take 1½ hour nap, this usually brings me to the REM stage… and my mobile alarm starts to ring - waking me up. Then I try and fall asleep again as soon as possible with LD (my script dream) in mind.
Though thinking about it, last month I’ve been trying to learn how to astral project, and I did a longer meditation session before my nap (about 40 minutes), I don’t usually do this… but short story is clearing my mind of thought before the nap, and trying to get a falling sensation and later on to astral projection (not very good at this yet, but I’m much better at clearing my mind now).
“Hmm first I thought my dream (if it’s a ~6-8 hour sleep) was one long dream, but apparently you cycle through REM and stages before that, during the night.”
At one point I was LD’ing about robots (I was trying to make objects) and one robot was controlled by my hand and thought, I did for one moment see my table (in the living room, where I sit in my chair and LD) in front of me - this was as I remember, in my LD, but it could possible be stages before REM and half-awake. But the device I used on my hand to control the robot, was on the table. This might be why it was so long?
I noticed my mobile clock, so I knew exactly how long it was.
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like that, all the way through until I hit the stage where you actually can see your dream while half awake, then I stop talking to myself and only try to visualize it.
it’s was pretty awesome afterwards! Thou boring not having anyone at home knew what I was talking about