Thread: long lucid! it feels nothing like a regular dream.

This is a copypaste from my dream journal. I've talked more about this long lucid experience in the general notes section. I edited out the place names.

Long Lucid About ----
7.4.2012

Type: Lucid

Dream text:

I was in ----, my old childhood home. I obtained lucidity almost immediately. I have already forgot most of the dream, but these are some fractions from it. I looked around myself,I was in the livingroom of my old childhood home. Everything looked as real as they could be. I had no problems walking around because this time it was somewhat automated.. I didn't have to relearn how to walk (for most of the time). I did the nose test over and over again because it just feels so funny to breath trough blocked nostrils. I kept walking around the building, and then remembered to anchor myself in the dream. I rubbed my hands together and looked at them, I also looked at my body. I had something like dark pants and a white shirt. I looked at my legs, joints and my torso. Only after that I had some difficulty walking for a short moment, because I were aware of my dream body. Somehow I couldn't walk without thinking how my legs and joints worked together to obtain the movement. I got over it soon and walked normally soon after. I went to the backyard. Man! It was summer, the sun felt warm against my face and the grass looked so real, the trees waved because of the minor wind.. I realized that this is the reason why we don't notice when we are dreaming, everything is real... Everything looked so real that I couldn't believe it was just a dream. It's somehow pieced together from a huge "unconscious object library", maybe that's why it looks as real as life itself, because it's a collection of "mirrors" from waking life. I took a breath and smelled trough my nose.. that's odd. The awesome summer weather smells like a dusty indoor blanket when I put my mind into it. Smelling the indoor air outside felt as surreal/psychedelic as breathing through ones blocked nose. It was funny. I just kept on walking around and tried to familiarize myself with this new reality.. I had not much dream control. But that didn't bother me. The new reality felt enough for me to keep myself in awe. I decided to go for a car drive, I expected/created my own crappy Renault to be parked in the front yard (lol, I didn't know to think bigger). So there were dozens of cars. I couldn't go to my own car because all the other cars were blocking the way out. (I had a moment of dream stupidity) I realized that I can fly and glide in a dream, so I ran trough the back door to the backyard and managed to jump without hesitation into the air, I didn't actually fly, but more like leaped huge jumps into the air. It was awesome! sometime while jumping, I had a false awakening and lost lucidity. Damn!

General notes:

Ahhhhh that feeling! I can do anything I want. I'm no longer "watching a dream movie" I can look wherever I want and walk everywhere I wish. I'm no longer the observer of my dream...I live it like the real life. My first long lucid! And YES! I managed to refrain my excitement until I woke up wohoo! I also remembered to anchor myself... BUT I FORGOT TO KEEP TELLING MYSELF THAT I'M DREAMING! Also, perform reality check every time you wake up!!! I remember that before the dream I had woken up. So I'm not sure how I attained lucidity in it.. It could have been a random nose test,a successful DEILD/WILD or a random realization. One thing for sure, I still haven't trained my mind pick up my old childhood places. It's an awesome dreamsignal, because it happens almost every night. S----, T----, K---- etc. I really really really should catch up on that I don't know how to dress it, but non lucid dreams have this tiny difference against waking life... They feel just a bit different. Moody, and you can actually feel it when everything you see is just part of you. Everything you expect, will happen. There's totally, 100%, utterly zero surprises within a dream. If a scary event occurs, you feel it will happen beforehand.

Objective context:

I was sleeping at P---

Age of dream ego: 25

Age associated with dream setting: 17

Setting of dream - associations:

S----... I don't know?

Feelings in the dream:

Mild excitement when I noticed that I was dreaming.

What does this dream compensate:

My youth. Days as single. Yet when I had a false awakening after the dream. I woke up from S---- with my girlfriend.

Associations to dream figures/ symbols/ elements:

I again had no other dream characters in my lucid dream, when the lucidity kicked in. What's up with that?

Interpretation:

I'm getting better and better!!! AWESHUUUM!!