Sounds like a lucid, congratulations! |
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Allow me to explain what I recall from one of the dreams I had last night that seemed to be at least partly lucid, or interesting at the least. I know that I was wandering my high school for an unknown reason. At some point I came across a row of vending machines. I stared intently at the drinks inside of the vending machines and thought to myself "I know my mind is just making up these drinks, I just stare closely at them to see what words my mind is putting on the labels and what not." So I was staring at these bottles that weren't recognizable, and thinking about how my subconscious mind was making these up and I think I might have known I was dreaming then but i'm not sure. At some point while I was wandering around I came across one of my friends from high school. Around when that happened I got one of the bottles from the vending machine and wrote "this is a dream" on it or something to remind me that it was a dream but I ended up leaving it behind. Then all I can remember next was a scene on a street where I remember telling my friend that we need to do reality checks to make sure we were in a dream. I started to look at my hands and they looked normal. I think I started to panic because it seemed like I could sense my physical body like I was awake or about to wake up, so I started to rub my hands together. After that I told my friend to clench his nose and see if he could breathe and I proceeded to do it myself and I was able to breathe through my nose while I had it clenched. I got excited and I think I told my friend that we were conscious in a dream together, but then after that moment the rest of the dream went on by itself and I kind of forgot that I was in a dream. None of the dream was very vivid at all, even the parts that may have been lucid. What do you guys think about this? |
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Sounds like a lucid, congratulations! |
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Last edited by NyxCC; 10-31-2013 at 03:08 AM.
It's kind of disappointing to think of what I had to be a lucid dream. What I have been expecting is for the dream to feel as real as life. To see and feel and hear everything like I do in real life. For instance, when I think back to the things I did yesterday I can only visualize it, and it's nothing like the reality of actually experience it. I feel like I've never experienced a dream, and they all feel like visualizations. |
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Dreams including lucid dreams vary in intensity, vividness, level of awareness, self-control and dream control. That is pretty normal. Moreover, you may actually have a very profound dreaming experience, but when you think about it, you may remember only brief flashes. That in no way means the dream was of a lesser quality, just our memory of dreams tends to fade much easier than real life memories. I know my best lds were super vivid and interesting, but when I think about a great dream I had a month ago, I only remember the highlights because I made the effort to tell myself the story after waking up. I can still feel some of the euphoria, but I don't get the exact visuals. That actually doesn't matter, as long as you have put down all the relevant details in your journal. All these memories are stored somewhere, but they are much harder to access compared to real life memories in general. Yet, you have to ask yourself how much detail you can recall from everything you've done the day before. Unless there are intense emotions involved, we tend to dismiss a lot of what's going on around us. |
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Thanks for the info! That is definitely encouraging. |
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That's awesome! Congrats on having yet another ld! :bravo: |
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Last edited by NyxCC; 10-31-2013 at 06:41 PM.
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