I’ve just recently started to want to try lucid dreaming. I’n about ten days i’ve written down 20 or more dreams. This night I experienced somthing strange. I think I may have been something halfway into a lucid dream.
I have some really big tests in a week and must wake up early to get more done. I placed my alarm clock on the other side of the room. When it rang i went up and turned it of. My other alarm was right beside me. I “snoozed” maybe half an hour. Then I felt something licking my fingers… I thought that were a bit strange, cause I was still aware of what was happening. When I concentrated on that everything started to vibrate and I heared a loud pulsing sound and some pitching noices. That was scary. I concentrated even more and everything became more intense. I went through that tunnel(yes, it felt like a tunnel) and ended up in a different state. It felt like I was floating in some liquid or in space. Everything was black. I couldn’t see anyting how hard I tried. I knew I was dreaming and stayed there about 20 seconds and woke up. One second later my alarm clock rang, again.
It’s an interesting experience. It was a sort of natural WILD but it may have been induced by your interest for LD’ing.
I’ve had a similar experience years ago, but it was less interesting. Early in the morning, I believed I had awaken; I was still eyes closed, between wake and dream, when I heard a strange repetitive weak noise which I located in the room near my bedroom. When I focused on this curious noise, wondering what it was, it “pounced” on me and I was surrounded by electric vibrations and loud high pitching noise.
As I was trying to experience vibrations for months, I wasn’t very surprised and didn’t try to move, so that I don’t know if it was sleep paralysis. But it just lasted a minute then it disappeared. I didn’t get a LD from it.
It sounds similar. I didn’t either get a LD from it, how hard I tried.
I think I’ve experienced a sleep paralysis. That’s the reason i started to read about lucid dreaming.
I was lying on my bed naked and my girlfriend sat beside me and watched TV. I didn’t notice that I fell asleep and dreamt I was lying there exactly the same way as before. Still conscious. I suddenly heared my roommates coming towards my room. Had I locked the door? I felt EXTREME fear and panic but I couldn’t move at all. The only thing I could do was like moving my hand a little. They opened the door. Then the dream repeated itself about 5 times. During the dream a tried to signal to my girlfriend, with my hands, so she could wake me up. The last repetition of the dream I could suddenly stand up, so I rushed to the door but fell trough the floor. Then I woke up. That was the most frightening experience ever.
I asked my girlfriend if she saw my signals and she did. She just thought I was dreaming.
LOL ! SP is a rather uncommon experience and most of sleep paralyzed people are very afraid of what happens. A friend of mine had such episodes and that’s the reason why I tried to experience it too (as I said in the post above) in order to prove him it was harmless.
Now he has found a way to induce a LD from this state. He does mentally a sort of pressure with his (dream) feet, so that he induces a rocking movement. Most of the LD inducing tricks from SP are based on this method: inducing a mental movement.
Did he have SP all the time? Sounds like that. I’ve only had it once during my lifetime, so it’s pretty odd for me.
By the way, I experienced the vibrations again. I woke upp some hours before the real awakening time. Tried to WILD one and a half hour or so. Nothing happened. Then I fell asleep in the ordinary way. I dreamt about two big black birds in the forest. Due to the hours of trying I tried in the dream to WILD by concentrationg on the birds instead of the HI. Then I realised it was a dream and the vibration and the pulsing sound started. All the images in the dream disappered and I woke up.
The vibrations, they are the step from awaken to REM and the other way… You can only experience the while conscious… Right?
It seems that they appear simultaneously with a specific brain wave (delta?). So when they appear, you’re no more in the waking state. You’re quite dreaming.
