Wake up control???

Quest for Lucidity
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Hello all,
I have just recently discovered lucid dreaming. I have yet to completely explore this entire site, or lucid dreaming. I do know what it is and I have a particular dream that I was hoping some of you could comment on.

About ten years ago, (roughly 16years old) I was staying next door at a friend’s house, as I normally did. We would stay up late playing video games. Regardless of the time we when to bed we would always wake up at a certain time. One particular night I had a most unusual thing happen in a dream. It is as follows…

The dream it’s self I can barley remember, but while in the middle of this dream, (that I had no control over) my dream suddenly stopped. When the dream stopped I was in no particular place, as a matter of fact I wasn’t any ware. But I did have two choices, one was to wake up, and the other was to continue dreaming. While in this state I begin to think about my choices. I thought that I would like to continue dreaming, but I figured also that if I’m being given this choice then it must be about time for my friends to wake up and I didn’t want then to mess with me as I was sleeping if I decided to continue. I struggled with this for a bit and then decided that I wanted to wake up. And so I did. It indeed was nearly the time we normally woke up.

Every since that happened to me I think about it from time to time, I have told many people about my experience, but nobody has heard of such a thing. Then again the people that I have told have had not background in dreaming, besides what they have dreamt about themselves. So I ask all that read this, what are your thoughts? Have you ever been given a choice like that? What does being given that choice mean?

Thank you,
Scribdog

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i’ve had nearly the same thing. dream kind of just ends and i’m about to wake up, but it feels that i can make a decission about waking. it feels that i can still continue that dream. but in that situation, i have no logic thinking, so somehow, i always end up waking up. no matter what i’ve choosed.

but if someone could really think properly, and be logic, i think that in the same “state” you could decide to get lucid. maybe i coud practice it someway…

…i dont know does this make any sense… :grin: …

or maybe it just feels like i can decide on my own. have you really ever continued the dream? of course it would be pretty cool :cool: …

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I’m rather happy to find out that somebody else out there has had the same experience as I have had. I wish that it would happen again so that I might choose to continue as to see what would happen

Thank you for your reply, I hope others may have some insite as to our experience.

Scribdog

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i’ve also kind of wished it would happen again,though it was so strange… maybe i would this time know to act differently and stay calm and everything. would be interesting. :alien:

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I’ve had that experience a few times as well. I think there’s various levels between waking and sleep. It’s not necessarily one or the other. This is kind of a dream-limbo state. Like you said, the next time it happens, you could probably easily slip into a LD.