Hi everyone,
This is the first post in a potential dream journal.
I experience Sleep Paralysis very often, even when not trying to achieve the state. I'm wanting to progress to lucid dreaming. I've experienced around three lucid dreams recently without trying to actually have them. That has brought me here to learn more about the LD state and how to reach it more often. I'll describe the lucid dreams that I have had.
1) The first lucid dream that I can ever recall having. In the dream I was in my bedroom watching television with my head resting against the back wall with a pillow in between. I then started to play around with my long hair by putting it into a twirl. As I did this I gradually felt that something was wrong and did not make sense. After a few moments I began asking myself questions about it. As I felt the hair in my hand I came to the realization that I had to be dream because I didn't have long hair anymore, as it was now short. At that instant I was fully lucid in my dream. Before that, the lucidity gradually grew as I figured out what was going on. I then immedialtly woke up and was totally freaked out by the incident. I ran to tell my mom, and even wrote what I remembered of it down.
Below is a copy-n-paste of what I wrote down immediately after the first LD.
Saturday, February 28, 2004 @ 11:54 PM
Had a sleep paralysis episode. Pretty sure it occured when waking up from dreaming. I was having a dream where I was on my bed, sitting up a little, and watching tv. Then I put my right hand behind my head and starting playing with my hair. My head only has peach-fuzz, but in the dream my hair was shoulder length. In the dream I thought about putting it in a poney-tail like I USED TO. Then I realized that I did not have long hair, but I COULD FEEL LONG HAIR. I was actually wrapping it around my hand like I used to in real life. I kept feeling the long hair and knowing that I did not have long hair and started to freak out. That is when I become fully lucid. I did that for a few seconds and then woke-up in sleep paralysis. My eyes were shut, and I'm not sure if I could open them because I had the courage, in hindsight, to not try to get myself out of sleep parlysis. I felt the same sensations as always; hearing the buzzing, wave sound; feeling the tingling sensation all over my body; not being able to move (duh!); So, I had my eyes shut and began an attempt to play around with the sleep paralysis. I read that when in sleep paralyis, one can will themselves to move. People can turn sleep paraylsis into a lucid dream or OBE sometimes, and one way is to try to turn and get out of your body. It doesn't make any sense, but I tried to will myself to turn to my left, as if I were really getting up, however, I didn't try to actually move myself. I just thought about doing it. Unfortunately, nothing happended. I just layed in the sleep paralysis state, trying to move myself for a little while. Maybe a minute. Then I was frustrated that nothing was happening and began to fear that I may start to feel the evil presense again. It was a little after that when I began to hear an odd sound coming close by, in front of the bed. I'm not quite sure what it sounded like now, but it didn't seem to me to indicate anything bad, per say, but it was the impetus for me to begin to move my fingers and legs to break the paralysis. I may have been confused at the order, but I think my legs were moving a little before my arms, which is very odd because normally it is my arms after my fingers. I even tried to make sounds also. I heard myself making a whimper sound, but I can't control my voice box, or some other aspect makes me unable to control the sounds, as in speach. Not being able to snap out of the sleep paralysis always scars me for the few seconds when I am trying to get out of it. It must be the loss of control of my own body. Then I sat up and began thinking how crazy I was to let the sleep paralysis go on, since I thought I never would. It happened so fast though. This is my first episode of sleep paralysis where I was fully self-aware in a dream. It may have been only those few seconds when I realized my hair was not long in real life, but it was so surreal. I could FEEL THE LONG HAIR IN MY HAND! omg. It was no less real that real life. I wonder why I couldn't turn out of my body and experience either an OBE or lucid dream? I'll probably read more on how to do it since my sleep paralysis episodes are becoming more frequent. My sleeping pattern is way off, and that is no doubt a trigger for the sleep paralysis episodes I experience. I was up from about 11 PM of the 27th and got drowsy when after watching AMW on the 28th at around 10? I dunno. I may have slept a little between 11 and 10, but I'm not all to entirely sure.
Sunday, February 29, 2004 @ 4:54 AM
I just read all about lucid dreaming at http://www.lucidity.com/ and am going to try to fall asleep in hopes that I can have a lucid dream. Although, for having slept 2 hours in about 36, I am wide awake.
Sunday, February 29, 2004 @ 6:14 AM
IT WORKED!
From trying to go to sleep, I kept nodding off a little and then would know that I had just been falling asleep and could recall the bizarre things I was thinking of at the time, but didn't know about when I was thinking about them. That kept happening and then I finally fell asleep. I don't recall dreaming anything, but all of a sudden I was experiencing sleep paralysis. I said to myself, "Holy shit! It's happening!" I kept my eyes shut because I didn't want to hallucinate anything disturbing. I heard the usual buzzing and wave sound and the tingling of energy all in my body. At the start it was just those feeling and sounds, as always. And I just saw darkness because my eyes were shut. I tried to imagine seeing things, but nothing happened. Then I tried to imagine the sense of spinning around, and after a little bit I actually thought that I was spinning around to the left very rapidly. Then I tried to imagine things, but nothing really happended. Just still the darkness, but for a brief second I thought I saw something tiny that I couldnt focus on because I was spinning. I kept this up for a long time, and I could feel that it was starting to end, so I kept focusing on spinning and it intensified. After what seemed a minute or two of spinning around in darkness, I began to feel a pressure on the upper right side of my torso. If it was as if something, initially, weighing 15-20 lbs were placed there. I began to think that it was the old hag (omg, I just go chills typing that) sitting on my chest. I tried to not let it bother me, and kept focusing on the spinning and trying to see things, but the pressure kept increasing until I started to think I was suffocating. After probably a minute or two of this, the pressure was too much and I was having a hard time breathing, so I started moving my fingers and toes as much as I could, as always, to break free. I don't recall making any sounds because it ended after a few seconds of willing myself to move. Near the end, the pressure would always be there, but increase in waves. So at one moment it would feel very heavy, but bareable, and then the next it would be like a truck was on me and I couldnt get any breath. I did not feel a presence or anything evil. I got scared during this for a second, but reassured myself that nothing bad could happen to me, and the sensations just continued. I imagined that the hag was sitting on my chest (just got chills), but reassured myself it was just another sensation. What if I opened my eyes? I awoke laying my my left side in a fetal position. The area where I felt the weight would be exposed if something wanted to sit there (chills). It is just in my mind, and so I keep telling myself that I can't be harmed, but it totally felt like I was suffocating and I have the fear that I might die if I "die" in this strange state. I read that people have "died" in their dreams, and then woken up, so I should not fear it, but I just have to get used to it. Oh ya, the entire time when I was trying to fall asleep I kept saying to myself, in my head, "Am I dreaming? Am I dreaming? ..." It looked like it helped out! Do my eyes need to be open for me to have a lucid dream, or what? I don't want to open them because the sensations get pretty intense and I might imagine something disturbing.
2) Another lucid dream I had took place with my walking around the basement of a former home I lived in. I was looking around at all the things laying around and how odd some of them seemed to be. The basement was not finished, and so I could see though the walls, as there were only the support beams in place. I walked to where the stairs should be so that I could leave the basement, but when I got there, the stairs were missing! I could clearly see the shut door, but no stairs. Then I looked to my right and saw the flight of stairs in another room, going from the floor to the ceiling. I just knew that the stairs, along with the other strange objects, did not make any sense. After which I knew that I was dreaming. I then became very excited and ran around the basement looking for a clock to see if the apparent time would change after each time I looked. I couldn't find one at all. I then panicked that I wouldn't be able to get out of the basement. I just knew that there was nothing outside of it, even if the flight of stairs were present and I could walk up them. So, I yelled like a baby after which I woke up in my real bed. It was the best lucid dream I've ever had. I totally felt that I was walking around my old basement. I even could feel the things I was touching!
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