A dream that changed my life

[Howarthm]

I was laying with my girlfriend, comfortable happy, most ever happy. She snores when she sleeps but it's nice not loud I enjoy it so much it helps me sleep. ( this is when the dream starts) I'm laying listening I am unaware that I am asleep, as I'm laying with her, I get a funny feeling I get up quickly turn and puke hard all over the bed I still hear the tv and her snoring I hit the ground beside my bed head first, I am just thinking her I try to call her name I try to call for help, I felt like I was dieing say nothing do nothing I see white, with my last thoughts of her and being happy I accept my death, at that moment I wake up, hands all balmy, feeling myself, makeing sure I am there, breathing hard, she asks what is wrong, I say give me a sec as a I catch my breath, I kiss her hard neve before, it makes me tear because I thought I lost her, I tear a little as I do. I tell her of the dream she says she never fell asleep but just felt my head get heavy on her. The dream started in the first stage of sleep. Because it started on the first stage of sleep it felt so real that for awhile I question if I had actually died or not. I have never have had a dream like this before. This dream came on so fast and strong that it felt to real, I am not asking for a interpitation I am just wondering if anyone has had a dream where it started right as they closed there eyes and did not realize they were asleep but were in the same suroundings and situation right before they slept. I hope this has made sense

[Darkmatters]

Congratulations! You've done a successful WILD!! It's pretty rare to do that when first going to sleep.. usually it happens later in the night when you're in the longer REM periods, but it can happen right when you first go to sleep, especially if you're sick or feverish, or if you didn't get good sleep the night before (REM rebound). Some people apparently can do it even under normal conditions (no fever or REM rebound). Check the tutorial about it to help you understand what happened: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...splay.php?f=25 The link goes to the Tutorials page... the WILD tut is at the very bottom. You might also want to look at the DV Dictionary to understand what all the abbreviations (like WILD for instance) mean.

[Novise]

Yes that is a WILD. Maybe your feelings of love for her and joy of being with her. If you were feeling it, could have taken the place of hypnagonic imagery and kept your mind running straight into sleep. Instead of sounds and visualizations, you had feelings that acted in this capacity. Anyway I'll leave it at that. Too bad the experience was bad, but that is beautiful that this happened to you. Actually I guess it's a WID. It's not lucid.

[Darkmatters]

Yes, I was coming back to say the same thing... like a WILD only not lucid. ... Maybe we should call it a WIDE (Wake Induced Dream Experience)?

[Howarthm]

Well thank you both for your input I always love learning something new, it had happened to me again though, except I had gone up stairs to get a drink come back down close my eyes, then open them to put in my head phones and I look at the time, close my eyes again, I realize the time is off. I open them again my head phones aren't in my eat my iPod isn't even close to me and the time was off by an hour and I had a very funny feeling about me, I did get the drink though so I believed it started the first time I closed my eyes, should I be worryed that this has happened to me twice or would this even count as the samething?

[Darkmatters]

Ok wait... not sure I understand this time. So, were you definitely awake when you went up and got a drink? And you believe you immediately went into REM and started dreaming? So... it's been 5 days since your last post... is there anything that's causing you not to get enough sleep the night before these experiences? If you don't get enough sleep then you could be experiencing REM rebound the next night... the mind/body catching up on sleep it missed the night before. That would explain it.

[Lucidness]

Yes, well done mate.

[Howarthm]

Well I was sleeping then woke up for the drink if that helps anything I am use to sleeping in all the time like10-12 hour sleeps but I have been getting much less lately like 6-8 which is still good. I also have the habit of haveing a lucid dream basically every night I sleep I enjoy them alot.

[waving on oceans]

Thats interesting, I just read another post in someone's dream journal about a dream so intense they puked after...crazy intense dream man. I can tell you really love that girl.

[aarenlainey]

Before some six or seven months at one night one dream come to my mind. In which I got the solution of the biggest problem related to my project. After getting up from my bed, when I acted upon it, it gives miracle. I finished my project successfully and got good scholarship from one firm to do further study and changed my life.