Hello!
I had 3 LD experiences so far, and they all were pretty strange and make me wonder what’s going on.
In my first LD I was so excited I woke up instantly.
In my second LD I managed to stay in my dream, but my vision was hampered by my arm, on which I had laid my head when sleeping. I could not remove the arm out of my vision no matter what. I did however manage to ask a dream character what he was standing for and got an answer, and I demanded to talk to my dream to ask a question - and I received one. Then I drifted into a normal dream.
My third LD was last night. My first LD had been “waking up in the night, go to toilet, sleep in, recognize it as a continuation of my former dream”, while LD number 2 and 3 resulted as I “woke up into some kind of unstable state, where I felt intense physical phenomenons which made me think it’d be hypnagogic images”, so I just relaxed for a moment, then “rolled out of my body” and was in my dream, where I did a RC immediately and realized I was dreaming.
Now in my third LD, I stood in my room, with the lamp replaced by a lot of glittering big old lamps and diamond-ish stuff on the ground. This time, I felt heavy sleepiness and realized I might not be able to hold out for long, so I demanded to speak to my dream a few times, but no reaction. I then turned, looked out of the window and at the rain - and drifted off into a normal dream.
The phenomenon in the second and third LD are similar - something was keeping me at a distance from my dream and threatened to end it. They were induced by the same method, using a hypnagogic state of mind to enter it.
I not once had that often stated experience of brilliant clarity, intense senses and so on. It always looked and felt like a slightly blurred version of reality, with me being awake in the dream, but pretty powerless, and unable to form anything to my liking or to even get rid of my irritating obstacles.
- What kind of dreams did I really see?
- Why could I not remove the obstacles?
- Is there anything I can do to make “proper” lucid dreams out of such situations?
Thank you!
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