Why Does this Keep Happening to Me?

**ontheverge** · 12-08-2013 12:11 PM

When I've finally realized I'm dreaming, everything just fades away and turns into black.

The people I'm in front disappears, and so does the entire environment around me. Nothing remains. Just pitch black darkness, but I'm still in the dream.

Sometimes, it would even feel like my soul is being separated from my body, and I just like I'm flying at a very fast rate (but I'm not being able to see anything), like I just feel wind against my body and hear some noise (the same one you'd hear as if you're in a vehicle which is moving at a very fast speed).

And I have full awareness when that happens, as if any moment I could just wake up.

Has this ever happened to you guys? If so, what did you do to get around it?

**Spydeh** · 12-08-2013 02:01 PM

Yeah,that actually happened to me once, i was in a room by the sea and there was a mirror and i looked in it and saw that i looked different and when i tried changing the landscape everything just dissapered for like 10 seconds there was nothing there and then i woke up.

**Presley** · 12-09-2013 12:58 AM

I'd say what is happening to you is SP. I used to get this moving-fast sensation and spinning lights (HI) and also very loud windy'ish noise, kind of like what alien abduction would probably feel like.

**anonentity** · 12-09-2013 01:41 AM

That sounds like the classic, astral traveller whoosh! before your astral body goes walkabout.

**RebarGold** · 12-10-2013 12:29 AM

That's happened to me a few times as well, and I think your brain has a little panic attack. If you're a new lucid dreamer, which I'm assuming you kinda are, it might just be that you're unfamiliar and the excitement is causing your subconscious to go crazy and your dream to reflect that. It sounds like you're not completely comfortable with the process yet, and continuing to lucid dream should cause this problem to fade. Practice solves most problems with lucid dreaming.
When you start to realize you're dreaming, focus on whatever is in front of you like your life depends on it. Try saying weird things or, even better, try to relinquish a little control. Don't let go, but let the dream stabilize as you "become aware" and take it slow.
The most obvious problem, and easiest to solve, is that you're EXPECTING to do this. Before you sleep think of alternate universes or cool things you'd like to see in your dreams and, if possible, just fade off to sleep with those in back of your mind.
Good luck.

**AstralMango** · 12-10-2013 12:37 AM

This has never happened to me at all. Probably because I've always wanted to do the unnatural and don't really feel the need to panic. But it may happen eventually, probably because of sleep cycles or something.

**Baron Samedi** · 12-10-2013 03:34 AM

I can remember a dream kind of "ending" but I was still asleep, still dreaming. There was just darkness. I was lucid, but annoyed and confused. I tried to make stuff appear, and it wouldn't. I sat in the black void for what felt like ten minutes, waiting for something to happen. I finally got annoyed and woke myself up.