Thread: Frustrating night, a very short LD and some doubts. Please read!

Out-of-body experiences are rare unless they're purposefully induced.
On the topic of your dreams, it seems like it's just one of those nights where your dreams are very dark and fuzzy. It happens to me sometimes. Or, it could be leftover effects from when you were drinking the night before, but I don't really have a right to say if that's true or not.

Here's something about the color red that I pulled off the internet.

Love and War:
Red is hot. It's a strong color that conjures up a range of seemingly conflicting emotions from passionate love to violence and warfare. Red is Cupid and the Devil.
Nature of Red:
A stimulant, red is the hottest of the warm colors. Studies show that red can have a physical effect, increasing the rate of respiration and raising blood pressure.

The expression seeing red indicates anger and may stem not only from the stimulus of the color but from the natural flush (redness) of the cheeks, a physical reaction to anger, increased blood pressure, or physical exertion.

Maybe something's really upsetting you, or you're angry about something. Or it could just be a coincidence that lots of your dreams have red in them; sometimes I dream about the same person or animal for a few nights in a row.

Originally Posted by Puffin

Out-of-body experiences are rare unless they're purposefully induced.
On the topic of your dreams, it seems like it's just one of those nights where your dreams are very dark and fuzzy. It happens to me sometimes. Or, it could be leftover effects from when you were drinking the night before, but I don't really have a right to say if that's true or not.

Here's something about the color red that I pulled off the internet.



Maybe something's really upsetting you, or you're angry about something. Or it could just be a coincidence that lots of your dreams have red in them; sometimes I dream about the same person or animal for a few nights in a row.

Thanks Puffin! And what about my short LD? What could I have done differently?

Do you think I was trying to hard and that made my night uneasy?

You could try stabilizing to keep yourself in the dream more (spinning slowly around in a circle to see all of what's around you, or feeling dream objects), but sometimes the dream still just ends. I'm sure that trying too hard has something to do with having LDs, but then again it can also motivate you more. It's hard to tell which it does for you.

Sounds like you are just too excited and over-thinking things. Your nervousness could be putting you in a very light sleep state. This light sleep can be good for lucid dreaming, but your unsettled state of mind is making you wake up fully too often and putting you into this sort of feverish state.

You might want to try relaxing a bit and just start off with writing down what you remember in the morning. You won't remember as many dreams, but you will get used to the idea and not be so worked up about it. Then you can work toward writing stuff down several times during the night.

Also, OBEs (or LDs that start off from your bed) are nothing to worry about. They are fun as long as you remember nothing can hurt you.

Originally Posted by stjimmy

Last night marked my second night of my deciding to consciously be aware of my dreams in hopes of one day learning to become lucid on demand.

Two whole days? You are doing fantastic for such a short amount of practice. Keep it up and be patient. Many of us have been at this for months or years, and still have dryspells of recall and or lucidity.

Originally Posted by Perlinfalcon

Sounds like you are just too excited and over-thinking things. Your nervousness could be putting you in a very light sleep state. This light sleep can be good for lucid dreaming, but your unsettled state of mind is making you wake up fully too often and putting you into this sort of feverish state.

You might want to try relaxing a bit and just start off with writing down what you remember in the morning. You won't remember as many dreams, but you will get used to the idea and not be so worked up about it. Then you can work toward writing stuff down several times during the night.

Also, OBEs (or LDs that start off from your bed) are nothing to worry about. They are fun as long as you remember nothing can hurt you.

Thank you, I'll try to be calmer and perhaps I'll put off trying to let mi mind to do stuff and just go to sleep as normal and write what I remember in the morning. Maybe this way I'll give myself more time to get used to all of this.

I know OBE's are harmless, but they creep me out, probably because when I was a child I had a dream in which I woke up and tried to wake up my mom (we were sharing the bed that night), and she wouldn't wake up, and then I started looking around and saw myself sleeping beside her and I then woke up for real and was scared shitless. I know I'll get over it someday, but I'm not quite ready to experience something like this again.

Anyway, thanks!

Originally Posted by zhineTech

Two whole days? You are doing fantastic for such a short amount of practice. Keep it up and be patient. Many of us have been at this for months or years, and still have dryspells of recall and or lucidity.

Thanks, I needed that boost of optimism! =)

I don't see how you can call this frustrating at all! You had an eventful night and a (brief) Lucid Dream. And you'e only been trying to do it for a few days. I'm going on a month now with no sign of progress, outside of bettering my dream recall. I would gladly trade your frustration for mine.

Seriously, man. You're doing incredibly well for the amount of time you've put into it.

Also, the "limbo" state is something that you need to embrace and explore. One mustn't be afraid to explore one's mind.

One lives there, after all.

Originally Posted by bbbblaahhh

Seriously, man. You're doing incredibly well for the amount of time you've put into it.

Also, the "limbo" state is something that you need to embrace and explore. One mustn't be afraid to explore one's mind.

One lives there, after all.

One fears the unknown, am I right?

Originally Posted by jasonresno

I don't see how you can call this frustrating at all! You had an eventful night and a (brief) Lucid Dream. And you'e only been trying to do it for a few days. I'm going on a month now with no sign of progress, outside of bettering my dream recall. I would gladly trade your frustration for mine.

Ah, my frustration was not from my night being uneventful, it was because I kept floating in and out of consciousness and that was a frustrating sensation. No proper dreams and no rest. Like Perlinfalcon put it, it's like a feverish state, not being sure about what you see and hear and feel. It was rough night. But thanks, I'll quit bitching about it now =)

I would say that maybe you were getting to the end of a cycle in your sleep phase, if its not over excitement or shock of realizing you are asleep (the shock still gets me now ).
I've noticed after about 3 to 5 dreams, short or long, the lucids become really fragmented and short and I wake up a lot. Sometimes its best to have nice long blocks of dreaming, rather than bits and pieces. Maybe you just need more dense dreaming, if that makes sense.

For me, its as if I have 5 strikes or I'm out.

i looked up what red could mean in a dream and this is what i got

Red is an indication of raw energy, force, vigor, intense passion, aggression, power, courage, impulsiveness and passion.�The color red has deep emotional and spiritual connotations. Consider the phrase "seeing red" to denote anger. Alternatively, the color red in your dream indicates a lack of energy. You are feeling tired or lethargic.
Red is also the color of danger, violence, blood, shame, rejection, sexual impulses and urges.�Perhaps you need to stop and think about your actions.

hope this helps

Maybe it was because you were so anxious and stuff about it

I wouldn't read too much into a dreams meaning. The message is either blatantly obvious (I'm scared of such-and-such) or it's just your mind wandering. Things like "the color red means" are just abstract generalizations and likely mean nothing. Often time dream interpretations lingers on mysticism or are just plain fiction.