A few nights ago I had a dream where I was in a deep forest, and I was standing to the right of a tree and there was a vertical ladder in front of me, and when I climbed down that ladder I got to a small ledge, and there was a large dark pool of water about 40 feet below me.
For some reason I got the idea that I should jump into it, and I started thinking for myself that there was no danger, and that I wanted to practice this thing for future lucid dreams - and I thought for myself that it felt really scary to jump like that, despite somehow knowing that I was completely safe.
Then I jumped, and I started to feel that I was levitating in some new space, and I was satisfied that I had "passed the test".
It was almost like I was "practicing", but I couldn't have been completely certain that I was awake, because I was much more venturous and took more risks than normal.
So there was some weird combination of "knowing" that I was "awake", but still knowing that I was "somewhere else" and that I didn't need to actually fear anything.
I guess you could compare my attitude to practicing things in a very realistic simulator.
Is this something that could count as a False Lucid Dream?
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