Originally Posted by
Triad
I had a similar one last night, before bed I simply screamed at myself with my internal monologue "YOU ARE DREAMING","THIS IS A DREAM","PAY ATTENTION", pretty much just yelling at the top of my mental lungs random awareness key phrases/words. I did this mostly because I mess with mantras fairy frequently as it takes me a little bit to get to sleep and it's easy to do, however this time I was going to bed fairly awake and energetic (I don't know why, I was up for like 20 hours, with an 8 hour work shift in the mix) so I aborted the mantra since it was starting to distract me and just went to sleep like normal.
However, I was having a pretty odd dream, even for my usual odd dreams. I was with these people, somewhere, all I can remember are weird angles and a lot of the scenery draped in darkness (wasn't pitch black or lack of lighting or anything, just the world had grim dark syndrome or something), for some reason someone (I think I knew them but I forget their face now) and possibly another person were trying to put something in the back seat of my car (I don't really have a car) but the contents were wet/covered in something nasty and it became my mission to find a container, which in this case, would be for whatever reason a tote (like the plastic tub containers at walmart or wherever) and I had to find one urgently.
I forget most of my adventure but at some point I was running along this road that was pretty odd - it was like layers and layers of rubber webbing and each layer a different drab color and it had some give when walked upon, at this point, I became SO desperate for this tote I started to gain lucidity JUST TO GET THE TOTE, this was so monumental I became lucid so I could yell "GIVE ME A TOTE" and other random commands, but the words came out strained as if I were in sleep paralysis. At this point, I was lucid so I realized I didn't really need the tote anymore and had to make my move and try to salvage this and I started to feel and investigate the webbed surface underneath my feet and unfortunately that's the last thing I remember. I'm not really sure if I got reabsorbed into the dream or if I woke up momentarily, it's completely left my brain.