Congrats on lucid!
It can be both, the opening your eyes and closing them that may wake you up. People report opening their real eyes by accident.
Dreams are made by our thoughts. If you not looking at something in your dream, if will cease to exist. So if you stop looking at the whole dream, it will stop being there.
But of course, as with everything related to lucid dreaming, this is not always so.
As you say, it's possible to be walking around in total darkness. But you were touching the walls and stuff, so you had at least some sense engaged in the dream, so maybe that kept it alive.
To get rid of blindness, you can try as Mancon suggested removing your eyepatch, your sunglasses, your hood. Or even pry your dream eyes open with your dream hands. It may sound crazy, but I have done it after someone suggested that.
Another thing you can do is put your dream hands infront of your face and start seeing them. Just say "let me look at my hands" and they will start showing. From there, start looking further and further away. This has also worked for me.
Or say "look, there is light behind me". Turn around and see. Or "they are turning the lights on in 5....4....3....2...now! it has lots to do with expectation and feeling of knowing that it's gonna happen.
Happy dreams everyone
|
|
Bookmarks