WILD last night, strange shaking effect
Hi everyone,
I'm new here, this is in fact my first post. Just want to tell you all about a strange WILD I had last night, and perhaps pick your brains. It's worth noting this was not my first lucid dream, but it was the first one I induced deliberately.
Anyway, so for the first time in years, I was reading up on lucid dreaming last night, and how to induce it. I'm right in the middle of exams at the moment, and being the diligent student that I am, my sleeping pattern is all messed up. So it was about 2am and I was reading up on it, and I read that a good induction method is to get into a habit of regularly asking yourself 'Does this make sense? Is this a dream?' and looking at your digital watch.
Obviously you can't get yourself into that routine in an hour, but at 3am I decided to get some sleep, for my 9am exam this morning (went well, by the way :D) - and I decided that as I lay in bed and fell asleep, I would constantly be asking myself if I was dreaming or not.
You know that stage where you're lying in bed thinking, and sleep is just starting to come? You can start sort of hearing things in your head, and sort of translucently seeing things? Well, I caught that happening and realised that I was falling asleep right then - and of course, realising that brought me back to being awake xD
Anyway, a bit later, I was dreaming - I was standing upstairs, in my grandparents' house, and I needed somebody to switch the light on in a room. For some reason, I didn't contemplate doing it myself, because it was someone else's job - namely, my best friend's. He seemed to be some sort of butler in this dream, and I knew that he was downstairs, about to leave - so I walked over to the stairs and called him up so that he could switch the light on. He came up - and then, suddenly, I realised how ridiculous the situation was. And I could remember everything from earlier when I was awake, so I knew it was a lucid dream - and suddenly, magically, a switch flicked and I had the controls.
The basic problem was, I think, is I didn't know how to use the controls. I can fly a glider, for example - but put me at the controls of a helicopter and it would soon be spiralling to the ground uncontrollably! Well, that's sort of what happened with this dream - I was very conscious of the fact that if I tried to control it too much, I would wake up. And there was this sort of power that I could feel, so I just let the power take hold of me, and it was like I was being wrenched around in the air, floating somehow (this happened in the lucid dream I had when I was a kid, too).
So I tried to do the standard things, like fly around the room - but I was aware that my whole body was shaking violently, and very fast. Like a two-stroke engine, it seemed! I could channel more power and make it shake very, very fast (which I thought somehow might be bad for me!) - and if I relaxed more, it would slow down to like a steady tickover. It was difficult to stay in the dream, like trying to balance something - and I woke up after a bit. But I'm pretty sure my body was shaking violently in real life!
Anyway, I'd be very grateful if anybody could shed any light on this... what was the shaking?? :banana:
Caspian
