Venryx

Date: November 17 ||| Time Block: 10:15 AM to 10:50 AM ||| Length: 5 minutes. ||| Lucidity: level 3. ||| Entry Type: DILD ||| Major Methods: WBTB, MILD

Methods: woke up, went downstairs for about two hours, got back in bed, was simply resting on my left side.

Account:

I had another lucid dream this morning, this time accidentally. I had been downstairs for about two hours, playing Settlers of Catan and watching Davey, and I came back up to take a nap. I considered trying to have a lucid dream, but I decided not to, since I was going to be studying afterwards and I wanted to get enough rest. So I lay down, on my left side, and just let my mind wander like I normally do.

At some point within the next 35 minutes, I found myself playing a game on the iPad (Graal Era), and thinking I was awake, or at least not realizing I was dreaming. But then I noticed I could hear a rustling sound from the speakers. And then, faint voices. So I figured it must be an in-game chat system, like some of the other multiplayer games have. I wanted to turn it off, though, so I tried using the iPad's volume buttons. They didn't work, but I remembered I had Guided Access on, so I tried turning it off. I triple-clicked the home button, but, as in real life sometimes, it didn't respond. So I held down the Power and Home buttons, to reset the device and get it working again. And that's when I noticed I was bending it, and realized that I must be in a dream!

At first it was a bit overwhelming, because at that moment the world seemed so real, as real as it does right now. I was very excited; so much so that my vision faded out, and all I could see was grey! Frantically trying to get back into it, I starting rubbing my hand together, and I felt as they tingled and sensed each others' warmth. Having stabilized my dream somewhat, I tried to visualize myself back into a scene, and I remember seeing, as I did this, something like a path in front of me, that was made up of alternating formations of grey lights. I don't remember actually seeing the room as it appeared, but I got back into it somehow. I then started walking, almost running, out of my bedroom, thinking of what I could do next. But then, as I neared the door, I noticed a mirror to my right on the wall.

Now this was very cool, since I don't remember ever seeing a mirror in my dreams before, and I wanted to see if I would have the same general experiences with it as other lucid dreamers have had. At first, I stood in front of it and tried to see myself, but my head in the mirror kept glitching back to the bottom, so that all I could see was my hair! It was like this for a few seconds, but I finally forced my face to appear, and began to look at it very closely. The first thing I noticed was that my face was a little obscure, i.e. bent at a strange angle. I tried to make the image more clear by moving my head, but my face in the mirror only matched my movements partially, and as I continued to watch it, it slowly morphed. I could start to see my teeth, and my mouth kept getting larger, to the point where it made up a third of my whole face. It looked very much like one that's been distorted in an image editor.

I tried looking at my eyes more closely, and they definitely had that look of aliveness to them. I could see my eyebrows and the muscles of my face, and I remember thinking to myself that "it's all there", in that they seemed to match up with how I tried moving them. I could see, for example, the tenseness of my lower eyelid correspond with my sensed facial expression. My last observation before waking up was that, although I could pretty clearly see the area right around my eyes, nose, and mouth, the rest of my face was pretty lifeless, like an artificial skin wrap or something. That's the last I remember before finding myself in bed.

One funny thing about after I woke up is that even though I could feel myself in bed, it felt like I was upside down in it, with my head towards the doorway and my feet towards the window. It was strange, because I felt myself to be in one direction, but I knew that I was in another. This has happened a few times before when I've been resting, but it's neat that it can also come from lucid dreaming.