Either ive suddenly started doing something right, i’ve had a stroke of luck, or the universe knows its my birthday soon - because in the last couple of weeks ive been blessed with my first lucid dreams! Two of which I had consecuitvely, yesterday night, and the strangest thing last night.
It all started when I began watching Derren Brown programmes on TV immediately before going to sleep last night. Unless you’re British, you may have not heard of Derren - he’s an incredible hypnotist and showman. I went to bed thinking about the show, and thought to myself, perhaps its possible to hypnotise myself into an LD. So I tried. I lay very still, and imagined his voice in my mind. The voice was slow and soothing, and I told myself to release my mind from my body, detatch myself, fall into the blackness and fall asleep.
It was incredible and strange at the same time - my body went numb as I spoke to myself, and started vibrating violently, my eyes shot around in my sockets, and when I told myself to see a dreamworld building itself around me, I think I did. Thats as far as it went for the moment - am I right in thinking you cant successfully enter an LD at the beginning of the night, because you arent yet at the appropriate cycle in your sleeping pattern?
Anyway, I awoke in the middle of the night, as per usual, slightly disheartened, as I couldnt remember any dreams. I decided to try and hypnotise myself again, and agrivatingly I couldnt. So I lay on my back, and for a few minutes simply tried to sleep - then, without warning, my body began to vibrate again. I felt an almighty tugging sensation, and saw my focus being dragged into a dream body, through the darkness behind my eyes. I was standing suddenly in the back of a crowded football stadium. It lasted a few seconds, until it faded and I found myself once again lying in my bed.
This is where it got confusing, because either I was drawn into another dream instantly, on the way out of the stadium, or I fell asleep shortly after and had a false awkening - because I then found myself lying in my bed once more.
It was hard to determin my reality at this point, as I was attempting the same technique as when I was soundly awake. However, I knew in the morning it couldnt have been real, as my technique to intiate LDs was totally bizare - something I didnt pick up in the dream itself. I was in bed, thinking I was doing the hypnotising thing, and then I’d roll out of bed and once on the floor I strangely then I decided I was dreaming. Extatic, I decided to immediately jump out of the window - but as I was falling I realised I hadnt RC’d, and all i’d done was fall out the bed. What justification did I have for being in a dream? I thought for a second I was going to die - thank god I touched down gently.
Then, weirder still, once I hit the floor I found myself transported back into my bed - as if i’d woken up from my LD, when really I was still there. Anyway, I did the falling on the floor again, and again, once on the floor I decided it had worked and I was lucid. This time I did the nose rc, which worked fine. But decided against jumping out the window again! I remembered reading to rub your hands to stablise, and I did, and also remembered you should shout ‘increase lucidity x 1000’ but instead I called ‘increase lucidity x 1000000’ haha! Still, I didnt have much control, because I asked for someone I wanted to appear to appear, and she didnt. Instead I walked through my dark house - which was oh so creepy. I peered into my parents room, they were asleep, I look away for a second, and then suddenly my mum was there. She asks, agrily ‘what are you doing up at this time.’ I tell her im having a lucid dream, and her tone changes to interest. Strangely in the dream I think, why is she so happy its an LD, she’s just discovered shes not real. AHAHA
The weirdest part was that the system continued - I would find myself again back in my bed, which I thought was reality, and would then fall on the floor, only to get up and realise I was dreaming. I only wish I would have known the whole thing was the dream, including the times I was in bed - I wasted a lot of time!
I do wonder wehther it was a dream in a dream though?
God, I woke up so confused. But what a night!
Has anyone else tried hypnotising themselves?
very good!
Just a matter of practice and learning to stay calm though.
but anyway, still beats waking up for good 
