Thread: went to sleep in a dream and had a lucid dream

I had gone to sleep on my couch when I went into a lucid dream. I fell asleep visualizing the rocks on the ground in my front yard and imagining the feeling of walking and I soon found myself in my front yard walking into the street. I thought, "sweet, I'm dreaming," and I started running down the road. But, it felt too real. I was sure I must have been kicking and punching my blanket off of me. So I thought I would go and look through the window in on my self sleeping to see if I was in fact kicking and punching in my sleep. But then I remembered that that would not make sense at all. It was then I began to feel frightened and I could feel my heart sort of buzzing. I worried that I was so deep in the dream that my soul was moving out of my real body.

I decided the best thing to do was to fall asleep on the ground as to wake up in real life [dream logic]. So running at full speed I dove onto the ground into a sleeping position. It hurt and I could distinctly feel the dead oak leaves on the cement. Luckily, it worked and I woke up. But apparently the going to sleep on the couch was a dream too because I was in my bed.

The reason the dream of running down my street was so vivid was that I had been deeply into REM sleep. And the reason my movements felt so real was that the difference from the wakefulness beforehand was nonexistent seeing as I had not actually been awake.

weird stuff dreaming is...