Long Lucid Dream for first time and strange stuff

[Savsal14]

Most times I lucid dream using WILD, I usually dream for about 5 - 10 minutes maximum and then I decide to wake up. Nothing strange happening afterwards. For the first time, yesterday, I was lucid dreaming for about 45 minutes. When I realised that I had to stop lucid dreaming cause I had to leave my house, I woke up. When I woke up I was really tired and exhausted. I was feeling really strange and I had a feeling that I was still dreaming since the real world looked pretty strange for some reason. I kept doing reality checks while I knew I wasn't dreaming. I stopped being unusually tired many hours later. ------------------------------------------------------------ Strange stuff while I was having the dream. Ok, most times, when I lucid dream, I make the dream so I never get hurt, cause if I die, I wake up. This time, I decided to make it more realistic. Everything was fine when someone shot me and the bullet hit my hand. Suddenly, exactly when this happened, in real life, my hand started shaking and my nerves and bones at that specific places of the hand started moving or something and it was really weird. I wasn't feeling pain though in real life. The same thing happened when I got shot somewhere else too. The only thing that happened in the dream and was strange was that I fell down cause I was hurt and I was bleeding, and couldn't get up. When I managed to I was acting in the dream as if I was hurt in real life. Like I wanted to run, but I couldn't run really fast and sometimes I fell down cause I was injured. Or when I was shooting my hand was hurting and it was difficult holding the gun. After all, it was more realistic than I wanted. After all these I managed to finish my goal on the dream, but took me too much time cause being injured slowed me down a lot. Then like always I shoot myself, or detonate explosives on me and stuff like that and I wake up. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am not sure if I must be happy about this or not. I started losing the sense of reality xD Any comments please?? Thanks for reading my thread

[Linkzelda]

Congratulations on applying and augmenting realism in your dreams!!! You wanted to make it more realistic, and your mind gave what you desire. You set the constraint that when you die, you wake up, and although that may be a good way if you just want a "safe word" or exit plan, it made the dream too realistic, especially for the part where you were injured and felt you were slowing down because of it. I would presume that if you're going for realism, anything that has serious injury would simulate the exhaustion of trying to move on with blood dripping down or the pain becoming more excruciating with every step. It worked, and you were really surprised on the outcome, and I guess you have the potential to do more with accessing your subconscious' state of suggestibility to produce dreams of similar realism, but with other conditions (like not focusing too much that if you die in your dreams, you'll wake up). You could say that if you die in your dreams, you won't wake up, you can just say that if you want to wake up, you'll tell yourself you'll want to wake up. The reason being is that if you can pull off that kind of realism, you can literally set any condition for your dreaming endeavors. Again, congratulations! Thanks for posting your experience, it just portrays how near-perfect our minds can create models of realities with certain conditions. Who knows, maybe you could even experience what it may be like to have something as far-fetched as the anti-life equation or something.

[Savsal14]

Congratulations on applying and augmenting realism in your dreams!!! You wanted to make it more realistic, and your mind gave what you desire. You set the constraint that when you die, you wake up, and although that may be a good way if you just want a "safe word" or exit plan, it made the dream too realistic, especially for the part where you were injured and felt you were slowing down because of it. I would presume that if you're going for realism, anything that has serious injury would simulate the exhaustion of trying to move on with blood dripping down or the pain becoming more excruciating with every step. It worked, and you were really surprised on the outcome, and I guess you have the potential to do more with accessing your subconscious' state of suggestibility to produce dreams of similar realism, but with other conditions (like not focusing too much that if you die in your dreams, you'll wake up). You could say that if you die in your dreams, you won't wake up, you can just say that if you want to wake up, you'll tell yourself you'll want to wake up. The reason being is that if you can pull off that kind of realism, you can literally set any condition for your dreaming endeavors. Again, congratulations! Thanks for posting your experience, it just portrays how near-perfect our minds can create models of realities with certain conditions. Who knows, maybe you could even experience what it may be like to have something as far-fetched as the anti-life equation or something. Thanks for your reply! Now I am really more excited than before I will think from now on that when I die I won't wake up so I can make the dream more realistic. I will also try keep a dream journal writing all of these stuff (I couldn't before cause they were SO unrealistic I couldn't dare to write them down) and since I have the talent to remember every single lucid dream I have had no matter how many days, weeks , months pass, I may post some of them when I'm ready on the forum Thanks again for your reply!

[Scionox]

Congrats! You wanted it to be more realistic and you got it, that's pretty much it and there's nothing wrong with that. As for waking up, the reason the world looked strange would be maybe because you had hypnagogic hallucinations, i have similar experience almost often when i wake up from my naps, i start seeing bizarre stuff around for like few minutes. Suddenly, exactly when this happened, in real life, my hand started shaking and my nerves and bones at that specific places of the hand started moving or something and it was really weird. Were you feeling dream body and waking life body at the same time? In this case whatever you feel from waking life body might as well be changed in dream and be part of the dream in some way.

[Savsal14]

Congrats! You wanted it to be more realistic and you got it, that's pretty much it and there's nothing wrong with that. As for waking up, the reason the world looked strange would be maybe because you had hypnagogic hallucinations, i have similar experience almost often when i wake up from my naps, i start seeing bizarre stuff around for like few minutes. Were you feeling dream body and waking life body at the same time? In this case whatever you feel from waking life body might as well be changed in dream and be part of the dream in some way. Well, first i got shot in the dream and after half a second or something that happened to my waking body. I should have made that more clear sorry. (: What you say would be a really good explanation if what happened in my waking body happened before what happened in my dream body.