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    Getting lucid in a very self-aware way, short lucid and semi-lucid

    by , 10-14-2015 at 08:14 PM (585 Views)
    -Standing in a Tram. i am track the stations subconsciously. after two stations a guy leaves the tram. he makes an handicapped/strange impression. he grins in a strange way. he leaves very very slowly with a lot of holding himself everywhere. after he got out the doors close and we start riding again. i see him thru the window again. he has something creepy. the tram is turning and we ride back because of some roadworks. i look around and examine the people inside. i realize that i wear a watch because it beeps shortly. (i normally don´t but startet this day with every time i look at a digital watch raise awarness) i think about the watch and think that it should be useful for lucid dreaming but i dont notice the actual time... i notice a big woman infront of me and she talks to a guy. they talk about something that they need to climb some stairs and she answers in slang (i cant echo this in English) " stairs? Hell no i will go stairs..." i look at her and think it fits considering her weight. she looks and me and says: "Don´t say anything!" My watch is blinking now. i look at it and push a button so it stops. again i think about the watch... a silent alarm... nice for lucid dreaming for sure... i´m sitting now in a seat and my brother sits right next to me. i try to configure the watch. the display shows complicated functions or tools and i try with pushing some buttons to understand what the functions are there for. i debate with my brother if we need to get out here or some stations earlier. no matter what we will need to go some distance by feet.
    --> damn so close to get lucid with the watch

    WBTB after 6h. Doing mantra with SSILD. I feel medium concentrated but pretty confident. i feel a little to awake. maybe next time an earlier WBTB?

    -I run thru a Street i kind of know. i wear a heavy backpack and have some issues with movement. i look down and see that i am wearing a black bumbag and it is open. i wonder why it is open look insight and see a compass. i wonder whom this is because i know it is not mine... i keep on moving but start getting aware. i decide to put the bumbag in my backpack while keep moving. i have problems to walk... i start questioning what is going on. i cant remember why i wear a backpack or where i coming from or going to i get lucid without any RC. i look up front and see a tree. i change my focus of vision and the leaves of the tree blend with the background in one focal plane with a high contrast like i experienced once while taking LSD. i normalize my sight again by blinking and keep on walking. now everything starts getting slow motion and pulls streaks. i shake my head and everything turns normal again. i get at a crossing with some signboards. i look at one and want to look away and back again to see if the words change or something. i look therefor at another sign where is writen Pharmacy but then i look closer and see Pharamhyzy. from nowhere a woman appears. she is attractive and reminds me of someone. i put out my arms to hug/kiss her but i notice i wearing loose braces that i want to put out. i wonder alot where they come from and wake up.
    --> i really liked the way i got lucid it was so "logical" and not surprising like it is sometimes. i think i became awake because i didnt ground myself. the dream was untypical. it was not like it was low quality like bad sight or something but everything was so muffled without sound and like i was floating?

    -another NLD about a girl i meet at a parade/demonstration we ride a tram and get out want to buy some green tea. meet another girl i kiss. Transition/next dream
    i am in the room next to the room i was in the previous dream. sitting on a couch watching tv about something that either is related to lucid dreaming or the dream before. i recognize the two persons. i have a pillow on both sides of my head and try to fall asleep (my roomates alarm was going on so i put on a pillow on my head to keep on sleeping) a friend is entering the room and lies down on the top of me. i am a little scared if it could hurt because my legs are crossed. i feel that my back needs to click and i relax and take a deep breath and it clicks silently.

    dont know if i really wake up and think to long about writing it down in my dreamjournal or had a direct FA...

    -FA: i lie in my bed and make some notes to the dream with the girl (funny thing as i woke up i didnt remember the dream anymore but i remembered the FA and that i was writing things down. i could remember the notes and so remember the dream ) my phone beeped silently. i turned on the display but it stayed black. i was wondering if it is broken again and i need to restart it but then i saw a little text "10 new messages" i tried to unlock the phone and it hang a bit but after some seconds my homescreen poped up. my mum enters the room and asks me if and how we account the woodthing. i tell her that there is nothing to account because it was for free/a present? i am irritated because i try falling asleep now and have again two pillows around my head. she sits on my bed and i watch a tv series. i can see a big building that might be a prison. it starts morphing around and changing and i smile and think its pretty cool. i like the fact that the series is so dreamrelated... now there is a big camera at the corner of the buidling and i know that it is a prison now. someone escaped. now perspective is changing and i am infront of the prison. it seems that i am the one on the run and i have a dejavu that i know that i was here before. i turn into a corner and now that in some feet i was catched from the police before. i walk carefully but this time there is no policeman. i turn around two corners and see a person but it is no police and he dont recognize me. i see a nice porsche car and go towards it. the engine is running and the door is open. i enter the car and start driving. i can turn right and know this is the way to the freeway but i decide to turn left because the police will be all over the freeway for sure. i accelerate really fast until the road is very thin. i think i should have taken the freeway because it would be more fun and they wouldnt get me anyway. i drive very fast and get concerned that i shouldnt force an accident. i look on my hand to check that i am (still) dreaming. i know that i am dreaming and so nothing can happen. i continue driving very fast. then a traffic junction comes up and the lights are red. i slow down rapidly and wait for green. 2 or 3 tuned cares pass me and ignore the red light. i think i can do that to and fast enough i am for sure and drive after them. there is a lot of traffic on the road but i manage to drive thru it without an accident. they turn left into a ramp but i miss the moment and drive frontal into a wall. nothing big happened and i try to turn and drive up the ramp but i am to slow. my car is now an american taxi. i try again but now my car is a construction truck and way to slow for the ramp. both times i see the car from outside like in a car game. i suddenly stand there and look on my "car" which is now a sponge. my roommate stands next to me end explains, that the one i have in my hand is a fine-pored sponge while the bigger one on the ground is coarse-pored. the coarse-pored is way more rare...



    F: i sit at a table with my roomate and tell him ".... this is still my dream...."
    F: Going in a bath and putting out my braces. i choke a bit and find it disgusting. i spit and examine the braces that consists of two parts?

    --> dont know why i dreamed two times of braces... didnt wear any since at least 20 years...
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    Comments

    1. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      It's exciting that you were paying attention to the watch already, so close! Next time for sure!

      Cool that you got lucid after your WBTB! I sometimes have those LDs where it seems so normal that I don't pay much attention, I'm hoping to work on raising my awareness during them. I think it happens more often when I have more frequent LDs, because I'm not as surprised to find myself in a dream.

      Do you usually do RCs before writing DJs? I've had so many FAs where I write DJs so I always try to RC first now.
      It sounds like you knew in the background that the car chase part wasn't real, like maybe it was a game or virtual reality, if not a dream. You seemed very calm for being pursued by the police!

      Your recall is always so impressive!
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    2. RelaxAndDream's Avatar
      Thank you for your kind words. i always and really appreciate your feedback.
      i had this night again a semi lucid (i write it down here too). like you say everything feels so ordinary and even if you know you´re dreaming there is no reason to do anything about it... even the conversations my friends had felt like typical afternoon conversations on our couch^^
      dont know if the reason is like you say the frequency or the time when one get lucid and is still "hazy". Nevertheless i wont complain about the frequency better like this than one lucid every week or two. and even then its not guaranteed that the quality of this particular one lucid is good.

      i think i dont do normally RC before DJaling. i try to do it after every wake up but i think i will add it to djaling because even if i check that i am awake but until i persuade myself to write something down i might be asleep again do it work for you? do you catch most of the FA with your RC? sometimes i think even if you do it everytime before your write into you DJ when you are asleep you forget it?!

      what do you think of dejavus? do you think you really dreamed something about it earlier that night or maby some nights before or is it just a feeling you get factitious? i didnt use the search but maby you know anything about it
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    3. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Yeah, the RCing has helped me to prolong a few LDs when I thought I'd already woken up. Sometimes I do wake up momentarily but fall back asleep without noticing, and sometimes I just dream of waking up, but either way it's a good practice to check before I spend any time DJing.

      Deja vu is an interesting phenomenon, I'm not sure if anyone really knows why it happens. I have a couple of theories but I'm not sure if they're correct:

      1. It could just be a misfiring of messages in our brain, or a misinterpretation of the order they happen in. For example, imagine a signal is first perceived as an immediate experience, and then moments later it is stored somewhere as a memory. If the memory signal arrives shortly before we consciously experience that moment, it might feel like it's happened before, even though the memory is of the exact same event. So it could just be that our brain took a moment longer to interpret the current moment's information than usual.

      2. There could be a more esoteric explanation. I have had a couple of experiences that I would consider to be premonitions, one particularly strong one where I had a very vivid dream, and then later that day, the exact series of events from my dream took place over the period of an hour or so. It was an unmistakable match, and I had remembered the dream earlier in the day, so it couldn't be a sudden memory that I falsely believed was from a dream. I also felt like I had a choice of whether to follow the story or alter the situation, but there was a very strong pull for me to do the same actions as I did in the dream.
      I think a lot about the non-linear nature of time, and wonder why we always experience it in a linear fashion. If it's true that every event that has happened / will ever happen takes place in a single moment, then maybe it's possible that our linear perception is broken temporarily and we can witness events in the future out of order. That brings up a lot more questions about fate and free will though, and I'm never able to come up with an explanation that fully makes sense to me.
      What do you think?