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I experienced lucid dreaming last night

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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I woke up around 5 and was then trying to fall back asleep. I was picturing myself in my childhood home. I was jumping between picturing it in my mind and it springing to life in complete vividness. For example, I was looking out the window at the river and it burst to life, from dark to broad daylight.

What was amazing was that I was fully aware I was interacting with 'falling asleep'.

I wanted to touch things and see if I could feel it. I grabbed the chairs at the dinner table and amazingly I could feel it in my hands. I could feel the smooth wood that I hadn't really thought about since the last time I was there, 8 years ago.

I touched other things and I could feel them as well.

Lucid dreaming is like being God for a few seconds. You're sort of creating the world around you, or wishing it into life.

[–] moviechatterer (15901) 4 years ago

i used to do that ocasionally when i was a teenager, 30 years ago , I found it never lasted long as "thinking about it" or "being awre" seemed to snap you out of it

[–] Gubbio (3893) 4 years ago

What are you smoking, and how much is it a pound? 🤪

[–] Iffy762 (1334) 4 years ago

Sounds like fun. I used to have lucid dreams when I was a teenager. Some of them were very exciting! Occasionally, within the dream, I would think, "I should really write this down so I'll remember it when I wake up." I would then write the dream down on a notepad next to my bed, then wake up and be really sad that I just dreamed writing down my dream.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

And now you just wrote down a dream about writing down your dream.

[–] Iffy762 (1334) 4 years ago

I'm the theme of Inception heheheheheh.

One of them was a really awesome dream about being a pirate. I had some great dreams! Now, I mostly dream about mundane things like doing the laundry and missing dentist's appointments. Sad.

[–] Otter (24464) 4 years ago

I've experienced Lucid Dreaming once and only once:

I used to have recurring nightmares about the zombie apocalypse, and this was long before the entertainment industry took up the subject. I'd be surround by people who were turning into monsters one by one, and by the end of the dream I'd be all alone and doomed. The one night, just as things were getting dire, my dream-self realized "Hey, this is MY dream!", and I began to kick zombie ass all over the place. I never had another zombie dream, that one lucid dream experience had purged whatever it was that causing the dreams from the depths of my brain.

[–] Iffy762 (1334) 4 years ago

That's awesome!

[–] Otter (24464) 4 years ago

Awesome enough that I wish I could do it again!

[–] Keelai (35236) 4 years ago

I had a lucid dream one time. I was having a very pleasant dream and then I was consciously aware that I was dreaming. That's when the scenery and people disappeared. Everything was black around me. I wondered where everything went and began to panic. I tried to will my body awake and heard air rushing sound pass my ears like I was traveling. I has sleep paralysis for a few moments before I was able to wake completely.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Yeah I've had a scary sleep paralysis dream once too. Demonic actually. Not good. I woke up in my room and realised I was still in a dream. So creepy.

[–] Keelai (35236) 4 years ago

"Demonic actually"

A shadowy evil figure over your bed choking you and you couldn't move?

[–] slimone (7996) 4 years ago

That used to happen to me a lot a long time ago. There is a book on lucid dreaming, but I forget the author, but you can look it up on Google.com

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

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[–] CharlotteXavier (2357) 4 years ago

That’s awesome. You can train yourself to do this on a regular basis. There’s a lot of research on it and some really good books.

Reddit has a Lucid Dreaming sub.

[–] Who (5146) 4 years ago

I had one of those too. I blamed it on watching Lovecraft Country just before bedtime.