Thread: Quigley's Dream Journal

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My first "modern" lucid experience...

CRAIG AND THE DARK SCHOOL

I laid down for a nap at approximately 4:35pm. I fell asleep almost instantly, and had a waking dream. My best friend at college, Criag, was sitting across the room from me. I realized, the door is locked, so theres no way he could have gotten in. I jumped up, and walked to the doorway where i began flipping the light switches. Nothing happened.

I was so thrilled to have become lucid, that i began thinking in my head, "I finally did it! Im finally lucid!" As soon as i began thinking about it, my dream world began shaking and got really fuzzy. I felt my body being pulled out of the dream. I woke up, determined to fall back asleep and experience another lucid dream.

The approximate time of this LD was less than 20 minutes.

My second one found me inside a strange school. It was basically one huge, long hallway, and there were hardly any lights. It was dark and kind of weird looking. In the dream, I felt as if I was high on marijuana and possibly drunk... I was very euphoric and very clumsy.

I walked into a room and noticed friends from both high school and college sitting at desks in the same room. I messed with the light switches and nothing happened, again. A girl i have hooked up with on many occasions (who was actually in my room right before i fell asleep) was sitting on her desk in the middle of the room. I proceeded to undress her right on the desk. I started touching her, and it was like noone even cared. Noone even seemed to really notice at first, but then I started getting odd looks. Again, i felt really euphoric and strange, so I ran out of the room, scared.

While sprinting down the dark hallway, i ran into - get this - my friend from home who introduced me to lucid dreaming. I told him something like, "Man, I'm freaking out. I think I'm dreaming. I was flipping the lights and nothing happened."

He looked at me like I was insane and said something like, "Dude, you are fucked up. There was a power surge and no lights are working."

I became overcome with fear, and started running again. I kept telling myself, "Wake up! Wake up!" I was convinced that I had actually done these things, and I was about to be in a whole heap of trouble. I cannot recall what happened next, but I woke up in bed at 6:00pm on the dot. The dream felt to be at least 4-6 hours long, if not longer.

I was physically and mentally tired, completely drained, upon awakening.

I am kind of scared by this... I couldnt really try things I had wanted to try because at one point, i felt as if i had lost lucidity and was stuck in "reality" having to face my actions.

Seeing certain people, Craig and Sara I had run into today, but Steve was the strangest. He is all about LDing, and even experiments with OBEs. It was scary to have him be the person to instill the most fear in my actual dream. I suppose that I had a predetermination that if I was to encounter him in a dream, he would continue to help me out and nurture my experience.

Weird is all I can say. Having LD'd is a strange and "eye-opening" experience. I cannot imagine where this may lead me, but it has an almost supernatural feeling. I wasn't even sure that it was possible... like ghosts and time travel and parallel universes... but I know the truth now. I experienced it, firsthand.

-Jeff