FadingLD

This was perhaps one of my most interesting experiences yet when trying to lucid dream, and is possibly a sign that I'm getting close. This night was my 9th attempt.

As I was falling asleep, I completely unintentionally slipped into the WILD method. This happened as a result of allowing my thoughts to race, yet keeping myself on the edge of sleep and staying completely mentally aware. Without noting at all what just happened, I saw myself playing a game in my head - Counter Strike: Global Offfensive. I was lucid at this point, despite only being half-asleep, and questioned the future of how humans may later develop technology that allows us to play games in our minds. After getting a few kills, I ran down a hallway in the game with an assault rifle, and held a molotov to throw it out a window, but chose not to and re-equipped my rifle. I was hoping desperately for there to not be an enemy at the end of the hallway, and my mind was already getting petrified and frozen in horror, to something which I had no idea about, and only seconds later did I come to realise it - I was entering sleep paralysis. The visualisation immediately seized, and I felt my body getting paralysed and an intense ringing in both ears that grew overwhelmingly strong, supported by a type of wind-blowing sounds. Even though I knew that this could be turned into a lucid dream, the experience frightened me too much, and I therefore chose to abstain and wake up.

Later at some point after falling asleep again, I started to dream about being in my school at night. I was staring at a truly beautifully, illuminated moon at what seemed to be midnight. Then a few seconds later, I visualised a man swimming in a pool, looking directly at me and discussing the topic of lucid dreaming, making it go over my head without any notice. This was where it concluded for the night.

No dream memories.

The final dream scene that I had before awakening was about counter strike: global offensive. I was playing the arms race game mode on what seemed to be a hybrid between two maps, and I seemed to be quite successful in getting knife kills, to the point that I reached gold knife level and the "counter-terrorists win" announcement showed. I woke up shortly after.

No dream memories for the night.

I recall being invited to some party in my school. I found nothing there, and the scene quickly shifted into a bike ride escape up a mountain from what seemed to be a horde of zombies that was chasing me and a group from miles away. The scene shifted to me being inside a pool, and then eventually I woke up.

I recall a girl from my school standing in a tunnel, looking through an opening. It was day time outside, causing the tunnel to become brightly illuminated by the shining sunlight. She was in her uniform, and I was standing in a corner wondering what she was so mesmerised about. Within seconds, I woke up.