Thread: Lucid sleep walking

I had a strange experience a while ago. I was in sleep paralysis, and I did my usual trick to kick start the dream early where I wait for the right moment and sit up and get outta bed. I was dreaming and there was a ghostly white figure in the corner of my room staring at me, I was kinda fascinated by it but decided I was gonna get up and walk out the door, ignoring this white ghost thing. As I was getting up, it charged me, it was a girl and she looked like she knew me, she went to grab my legs or something so I kicked her in the head and she jumped back. Then I woke up in the exact position I was in in the dream, kneeling at the end of my bed, and I could still see this girl standing there with a "wtf" look on her face, took a good 5 seconds before she vanished. How the hell did I go from sleep paralysis to sleep walking? Thats scary stuff because I usually go rampaging in my lucid dreams, I could have tore the house apart, gone on a crime spree, even killed someone thinking it was just a dream. But whats really boggling my mind is what woulda happened if I started flying. My body can't come with me so I wonder what woulda happened. Woulda been mighty strange if I woke up on a rooftop lol. Thats the first I've ever sleep walked and it hasn't happened since. I should note that this is the first time I ever induced sleep paralysis intentionally, I did it with affirmations. Has this ever happened any of you? Its very interesting stuff because it means that I was seeing my physical surroundings, but also seeing additional dream phenomena on top of it.

Maybe you should start phasing through walls more (instead of opening doors and what not). Also, maybe you shouldn't kill people in LDs? Just suggestions.

How can you be certain that you weren't still dreaming when you "woke up?" Did you do reality checks? Was it the last wake-up of the morning?

This experience was the first dream of the night, I went into sleep paralysis as I was falling asleep. I know I was awake because I didn't go back to bed, I went on the laptop and started looking up other peoples experiences. Plus, I freaked out when I could still see this girl while awake, I screamed and woke the whole house up. They told me the next day they heard me hollering. I found another persons experience like this one, they fell asleep and went into a lucid dream, in this case they saw a giant spider which scared them so they ran into another room and woke up in that other room. I've had thousands of sleep paralysis induced lucid dreams, but the ones that I kick start early tend to be stranger than usual. The alternative is just laying there until a dream starts, in that case I always get this free falling sensation and then the lights go on, I'm surrounded by scenery. In these kick started ones, I don't see anything with my eyes closed, just black, I have to open my eyes to be able to see whats going on. Often times I can see my paralysed body but I can feel myself moving, like I have a second body and I get nice visual hallucinations of this second body, its translucent and psychedelic looking. Its bizarre that my paralysed body got up and moved with me, I know that this paralysis mechanism doesn't switch off when a dream starts, the reason we have it is to prevent us acting out our dreams. Trippy stuff.

I haven't got good at phasing yet, I often get stuck inside the wall which causes the dream to end. Haven't tried it in a long time though, I'm gonna start practicing again. I won't be killing or attacking DCs anymore after this experience just in case. I used to wipe out any DC that got in the way of my rampage, especially if I was driving, I'd be driving down side walks and through busy areas.

Two things: I doubt this state can last very long (basically seeing dream imagery after you've woken up). This happens to someone I know, and sounds like it may be what you are experiencing. Second, the nose pinch could be a good way to test reality, as it would confirm whether or not you are currently "in" your waking body.