martakartus

I was with a friend of mine at a girl's house, in the garden. I don't remember exactly what we did, but the girl suddenly started chasing after both of us. She had a sort of spray can and threw a gas against us. I feared the gas could be toxic, so I tried my best not to breathe it. As we started running, I noticed it wasn't so hard for me as it normally is in a dream. It's a common dream sign of mine to be chased after and not be able to run because I feel my body is really heavy, and I may even see myself crawling on all fours. This dream sign made me have my last lucid, and in this particular dream, it almost did as well. I thought to myself "it isn't such a struggle for me to run in this dream", but somehow I didn't become fully lucid and the dream just followed as a regular non-lucid. Anyway, it's good that I noticed, at least.

I haven't been paying much attention to my dreams lately because I've been busy, but tonight I've had a nightmare which has randomly turned into a lucid dream.

I was walking down a street when I found this guy staring at me and started harassing me. I got scared and turned to the left, into a very dark street. I couldn't see a thing, but I could hear his motorbike chasing after me. I tried to run, but my body felt very heavy and I was unable to. I have to say I tend to have dreams where someone is chasing after me and trying to hurt me, and every time I find that my body feels too heavy for me to run.

Thing is, I got into a building to hide from him, and while I was waiting, I thought it was strange that I couldn't run and that I had to be dreaming. Once aware, I decided I could turn the situation around to my advantage, that I had to do something to prevent the dream from fading away. When he got into the building, I stood before him and told him to stop chasing after me and trying to hurt me. All of a sudden, he didn't look dangerous anymore. I stopped for a second to think what to do next and I did what first came to my mind I could do with a guy in a lucid dream. I made him sit on a couch, sat on him and got it on with him.

This is the second lucid experience I've had since I got started with all this. I have to admit that this last month and a half I haven't quite done any reality checks or practised anything like ADA, so I wasn't expecting to have a lucid experience again yet. Hopefully, I'll get back to it now.

After a stupid mosquito woke me up this morning I thought I had lost a quite detailed dream. I had it on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't remember a single bit of it. A while afterwards, it came back to me like a bombshell.

In it, I had just been watching a play with my uni friends at a theatre. It was like a circle theatre and we were sitting on one of the upper circles (sorry for my vocabulary, I'm not sure I'm using it the right way, I hope I make myself clear). When the play finished, we went down the stairs and towards the exit. Then, we went past an aisle and into another dark theatre, not in use at that time, and the exit was at the other end of this one.

When we were there, I remembered I didn't have my bag with me and I didn't know what I had done with it. Suddenly, I saw a couple of my other uni classmates making their way back to the first theatre because one of them had forgotten her bag there. I assumed mine would be there too, so I followed them. When we arrived, we found the theatre was being prepared for the next play, there were ushers, who were wearing a funny outfit, showing people to their seats. I went near one of them and asked if I could check if my bag was there, but he told me the theatre had been emptied and there was nothing left. The other girl asked another usher who told her she could have a look, so I did the same. She found her bag quickly, I spent a little while but found it in the end. Finally, I made my way to the exit, where my friends were waiting for me.

Now that I'm working on my dream recall, I found interesting that the surroundings were so vivid and realistic and that they didn't change throughout the dream. I drew a map of the place in my dream journal, but I really wish I knew how to draw properly because it's almost impossible to describe it with words.

I was working for a secret company and played the role of Mr. Cobb in the movie Inception. The surroundings were different than the ones in the film, in my dream it all took place in a house, but every now and then I kept seeing Cobb's children.

Our mission was to plant an idea in a woman's subconscious. To do that, we needed three layers of dreams, and in each layer I had to find the way to "plug" her into that machine and go a layer deeper. In my case, though, there was no dead husband trying to sabotage the mission or anything like that.

During the night, I've woken up in some occasions (or dreamed I woke up, I can't really tell). Almost every time I did I thought I would do some kind of RC to make sure I wasn't dreaming and not lose touch with reality. I also thought I needed to remember as much of the dream as I could to be able to write it down when it finished (though in the end, I haven't been able to recall much detail). After each of these short awakenings, I fell asleep again and the dream continued. At about 5.45 am, I decided I had woken up too many times and maybe the next time I fell asleep I would enter a different dream, so I got my dream journal and wrote this down. It's been a strange night.

PS: yesterday night, I watched Inception right before going to bed, and I was almost sure I would have a dream about it.

This morning, after coming back from a concert, I had a quite curious non-lucid dream.

Thing is, I went to bed at 4.30 am, more or less. I fell asleep and awoke at about 8 am, recalling very little of a dream I'd just had. I thought it was way too early and I still had time to have more dreams and pay attention to remember them. Then, I fell asleep again.

I "woke" a while afterwards. I was on my bed wearing my pyjamas (the same I was actually wearing). I had a look at my watch, it was 10.30 am. "Fair enough", I thought, "but I can still try to sleep more" (Side note: I always have trouble sleeping when I go to bed so late, I keep waking up many times). I looked around me and saw a couple of the friends who I had spent the night with, standing by my bed. One of them had a device which, he told me, was used to monitor the dreams to be able to retain more detail. I only needed to put two suction pads on my chest and just sleep. I thought it was a bit strange, but I followed his instructions.

It was then when I finally woke up. The first image my eyes caught was almost the same as the one I had when the dream started, apart from the fact that my friends weren't there. Again, I looked at my watch and was startled to realise it was 10.29 am. I did a RC to make sure it wasn't another false awakening, but this time I really was awake.

Before I start, let me say this is the first lucid experience I've had since I got started with all this only a month ago, so it's nothing too big, but it's a step forward for me.

I was in a strange place, it looked like a cloud, I could see the cotton-like floor and the blue sky above me. I was holding a piece of paper with both my hands and there was a legible text written on it. I noticed my surroundings were quite weird, so I started thinking that might be a dream. I stared at the piece of paper thinking I'd see the letters moving around, but they didn't. I thought "okay, if I was in a dream these letters wouldn't probably be still, but this place I'm in... I'll try staring at the letters, look away and then look back at them again, as if in a reality check". I did it and, sure enough, the text had changed completely. I then shouted "I'm dreaming!" and as I did I started feeling like a tickling and buzzing coming from inside my chest. This feeling kept growing and I knew I'd wake up if I wasn't able to stabilize the dream. I tried to spin around first but I felt like I couldn't move. I guess it took me a bit too long to react because I started feeling my real body on my bed while the dream hadn't finished completely yet, but anyway, I tried to rub my hands together in the dream to see if I could bring it back. However, it was too late, the dream was fading away.

I'm not entirely sure I woke up because I can't remember it clearly (maybe it was a false awakening). I only remember I tried my hardest to fall asleep again as fast as possible, keeping in mind I had been lucid just a few moments before in order to enter the next dream while still lucid. All of a sudden, I felt like something was taking me away floating and I entered another dream, but I think I wasn't lucid in this one.

I don't remember much of the second dream because I woke up startled in the morning and it went away while I was trying to bring back as many pieces of the lucid experience as I could.

Anyway, brief as it has been, it's been an interesting experience. I'm looking forward to something like this happening again soon and being able to stay in the dream.

Many years ago, as a child, I remember dreaming one night, I thought to myself that what I was seeing was very strange. I don't quite recall what I was dreaming, it's just the feeling I got. I kept thinking and at some point came to the conclusion that I had to be in a dream. When I woke up I told everybody that, while dreaming, I realised it was a dream. My parents told me that was impossible.

Back then I knew nothing about lucid dreaming. It was only just recently that I started reading about it and somewhere I read kids become lucid more easily than adults. That explained a big deal.