Thread: Strange experiences when becoming lucid - nability to think about what I want to do

This is very hard to describe. I have had two lucid dreams in the last few weeks. But they were both very strange.

In the first place the regular parts of the dreams, before I became aware that I was dreaming, were very detailed. They were so detailed that there was little difference between them and when I usually gain lucidity. My first lucid dreams had a jump in reality and detail from regular to lucid. Now it's an imperceptible shift that I only notice if I look really close.

Next up I have no conscious thought processes. I can walk in the woods wherever i want to go, I can even keep myself in the dream, but it's almost as if I am still limited in some way, on some sort of track. I can't all of a sudden decide to fly, or return to my body to start an OBE, or summon the fox, my spirit animal/guide/guardian to join me. It seems as though I have a very limited control of my actions.

For example in the first of these two strange lucid dreams a vaguely familiar lady offered me a piece of candy. For anyone who was read my other posts and seen my book recommendations, you know I am highly educated on the subject of dreams. I know to take such a gift. If I was in full control I would have. But by the time I realized that I should have accepted the gift in my dream it was too late. For some reason what I would make a conscious choice to do as I sit here typing this was not the choice I made in the dream, like I was following some script.

I am meditating and trying to keep to a regular exercise and meditation schedule. I am using affirmations - I think they are why I am getting more lucid dreams. So my mindset is right. What else would you recommend I do to get off the rails in my dreams when I become lucid? I want to tear this stupid script up! If I allow a dream to play out the way it wants, I want it to do so as my own conscious choice, remaining conscious while it plays out, able to take the reigns as it were anytime I want.

I appreciate your help!
- DreamBliss