Weird experience while in WBTB

**hex** · 08-03-2012 11:53 AM

Hello dreamviewers, I may look new here with my post count, don't blame you for thinking so, but I've been around for a few months just reading topics here and there.

Well to get on topic, I've had a LD before, it's just that it was a while back and I haven't tried again for awhile until just recently. Basically, last night I woke up at about 4:30 (after falling asleep at 12:30), to try the WBTB method. Shortly after I woke up and was laying back down I fell asleep because I lost focus. While asleep, I see disturbing images, not like dead bodies or anything but just images that for some reason scared me. I recall one of them being a brick wall or something. This is all happening while I'm asleep not while trying to induce a LD. While this is happening I can feel myself getting scared almost as if you were walking in real life and you get scared. But I tell myself this is a dream and it's not real and the image or thought goes away and comes another one. However, each time something appears I continue to tell myself this is a dream. After I have seemingly dismissed all the images I fall asleep with what I can remember no more dreams.

I've been thinking about this all day and thought that this was actually all happening while I was trying to WBTB, and I was just to delusional to realize it. And if so, is that what lost my focus and caused my to just fall asleep?

Also, if I was able to acknowledge the fact that I was dreaming and it was fake, why wasn't I able to LD?

Thanks for reading, and all responses help.

**Burke** · 08-03-2012 01:13 PM

Do you remember anything before you lost consciousness? Any feelings/sensations that may hint you were just in SP? If not then it was probably just a dream and even a lucid one at that, but a mild lucid nightmare. You can still have nightmares even while lucid though they are quite rare and a lot of people never have them. It's basically a normal nightmare only you know that you're dreaming, but you can't control anything and it leads to a somewhat frightening experience. When you kept telling yourself you were dreaming did you really believe it? Did you truly believe that fact that you were in a dream? There's a possibility that you were just unconsciously saying "I'm dreaming" just because of the fear of what was going on.

Also keep in mind that you did not have 0 dreams for the rest of the night, you just forgot them. You're dreaming for a large portion of sleep and it's mainly in the latter half which is when you described not having any. You did have some you just can't remember them.

**jblb2424** · 08-03-2012 02:25 PM

It was probably just irrational thoughts you experience when falling asleep asleep or Hypnogogia from sleep paralysis. If it was sleep paralysis, you would have felt bizarre feelings of vibrations, paralysis, even floating or falling. As for irrational thoughts, that seems more likely to me. As you fall asleep, your logic center begins to turn off and you start daydreaming about irrational things without your control, until a dream eventually forms. However, you can regain consciousness in this state and is another method to induce a lucid dream. Or it could of been just a lucid nightmare like Burke suggested

. Hope this helped!