I had a very strange ocurrence in a ld i was having tonight:
I was flying through a cardboard cutout wood (which looked like it had been colored with pencils). Flying only by breathing ^^, i was imagining i was a bird and as long as i breathed regularly i would fly without any other effort (also the first time i conciously breathed in my dreams as far as i can remember)
Then suddenly, there was a weird noise, kinda like a chalkboard scratch or metal ripping, very disconcerting.
And the scenery suddenly flipped to a very real looking trainstation in the countryside.
I decided that i wanted to go back to the cardboard wood so i concentrated and the scenery began flickering back and forth between the two places.
In the end i woke up because it made me dizzy and stuff.
kinda lost lucidity through that.
The noise, yes, probably some outside sound that got incorporated. What I found amusing is how that triggered your dream to re-render. The sound you describe, “metal ripping, very disconcerting,” and the imagery that it triggered, “very real looking train station”: that’s odd. My house is two blocks from a train station, and I think I’ve heard sounds like these going on in there, especially years ago when they had a different, noisy break system. (All cars have been changed over the past five years, so now they’re silent to break and make a funny chromatic-scale-sounding tune when they start running again).
Is it possible that the noise triggered a memory of yours? What I’m thinking here is: dreams don’t re-render that easily into realistic stuff. Dreams often render themselves element by element: you see a door, then you expect it to be in a wall, so you see a door in a wall, then you expect something in that wall, and you see a table against it or a portrait hanging etc. Element by element. Pretty fast but still. For a vivid image to just break into your dream world, complete and detailed, you must have fetched it somewhere. So I’m guessing memory. What d’you say?
In my latest WILD the transition was a little weird. First there was the HI, A complete room with details then black, then flashing again, then faster and faster until i finally stayed in the room. I figure this is a way in which a setting can be produced. By flashing, perhaps adding details every time, or changing.
It sound like you put up a struggle, and it was a battle of wills so to speak. Dreams “want to” change from one thing to another.