First Semi Lucid experience!
Well I came to these boards a few months ago with a lot of interest in dreaming and lucidity. After not having much success, I sort of gave up. But today while I was taking a nap, I had the craziest experience. I dont know if it was coincidence because my friends and I talked about lucidity and dreaming last night, or if it was that I was just very tired and out of it from the week.
Anyways, I decided to write down my dream in a journal (I had previously attempted to keep a dream journal but never really did, I think I will now). Here is the exact entry:
4/6/06
Wow, where do I even Start? I went to sleep around 2:00, and woke up at 2:30 briefly to talk to mom, who called. I was so tired (and I still am), that I went back to sleep. After Aa while, I woke up, but I felt a little weird. I felt like I was still able to fall right back asleep. So I decided to open my eyes a little, and off in the distance through the window I saw a zeppelin, exactly like the one in 3d Mark 06 [a video game graphical program]. I actually thought that for a second, and I think I vaguely acknowledged, hey I am dreaming, I should go back to sleep! I closed my eyes and almost immediately felt my body just spin and gain the feeling of weight and it was a very strange feeling.
I acknowledged that I was close to lucidity so I tried hard to fall back asleep. I started to try to control my thinking and turn it into controllable dreams. I started feeling my body move that way even more. From there I can't remember much until the end. I think I started thinking of girls laughing all around me, like I just heard the noises. [I remember trying to MAKE this happen]. I felt like I somehow had control, and I still felt my body there in a really weird way. Then I think I started dreaming a bit more. I can't remember much of what happened until it all jumbles up to a new idea.
I had posted some sort of story, I think explaining that I was dreaming lucidly, on something like the Oblivion forums [a video game forum]. Mrs. Moore [My high school english teacher] was reading the post to our class, like I wasnt there, and correctling all sorts of stuff about it. Meanwhile, my mind was roaming the Oblivion landscape. Our class was laughing at how much I had done wrong (like writing style wise) in the post, but in a friendly way. All of this was very cloudy and unorganized, only putting it on paper helped me make a little sense out of it. My main excitement was my entire realization of lucidity, as well as my hallucination (?) of the zeppelin (because I remember OPENING my eyes). The feeling of my body turning like that I have felt before a little when attempting a WILD. I hope a I can do it again.
Ah, I'm excited. It was a really interesting experience.
Re: First Semi Lucid experience!
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Originally posted by Sell224
So I decided to open my eyes a little, and off in the distance through the window I saw a zeppelin [...]I actually thought that for a second, and I think I vaguely acknowledged, hey I am dreaming, I should go back to sleep! I closed my eyes and almost immediately felt my body just spin and gain the feeling of weight and it was a very strange feeling.
It seems you were on the verge of lucidity there! The feeling of weight you experienced is sleep paralysis (SP) which occurs when you dream.
Oh, and welcome to DV! :welcome:
