Just Want To Share My Unusual Lucid Experience/story

[Dr3_thepooner]

Ok, i am new here first of all and wanna say hi to everyone in this wonderful comunity. I've been looking for this kind of website for a long time, now i am 21 ... i was 16 when first got interested in lucid dreaming, i even read a book written by Steven Lamberg on it and had a signifficant progress in achieving lucidity. Then i, for some reason, lost interest in all of it and gave up. Now i am this little stoty to tell, after I resumed my quest in the world of dreams 4 year later on. I think it might be interesting. So here it comes. My experience story As i already mentioned now i am 21, and decided to try out "waking up" in a dream again, because i had and still do have these monotonous reocurring dreams. Often with different characters, but usually in the same place (set up with minor changes) - and the most annoying thing is that atmosphere of my dreams is always the same - you know this feel after you wake up is always pressuring and rather depressing, i'd say(all the dreams set up in my former country..it seems it just wont let me go). So I found old book with all the excercises i did 4 years ago, as well as i found this web site - which was a great help so far I started excercising - practicing WILD, meditation, dream journal (which is pretty huge by now) etc, nothing what -so - ever seemed to happen! But one morning changed my perception of life ... i can hardly describe what happened. But i will try my best. So i was staying at my friends place the whole night - watching Dave Chapelle , i got home by 9 am all sleepy and beat. Headed straight to the bed , lied down ... all of a sudden i felt that my heart seemed to stop beating, right away i got pretty scared and sat up on the bed, took 2-3 deep breathes, felt the pulse again - everything seemed back to normal. I thought - "ohh well didnt sleep the whole night , prolly just goin nuts". Then I lied on my side and put my hand under my head, about 2-3 mintes later i felt an urge to sit up on my bed again - i have no idea why! So i tried to do so! , BUT as i was sitting up the hand that was under my head felt like it was glued to it, and wouldnt come off... all the movements were so wavy and strange... i felt this static noise in my ears... whole body was vibrating.. I thought jesus..why is this happening to me. Next momnet my hand finnaly separated from my body and i managed to take a look on my bed - here i was incredibly shocked- i saw mysled sleeping - just like i described on the side in the same position. That was it ! I mean i knew I - was me! and i didnt know what to think anymore. I was scared and at the same time very excited (note - time lost its meanting, i couldnt say how long i was there). Then someting let me know - Its ok, dont be afraid ...so i tried to move and i kinda slipped down from the bed .. i coudlt even controll my speed of movement - cant say i was walking , better somthing was dragging me thru the room, i'd try to touch things but everything was happening so fast images were distorted! As i was moving forward, i would get more assured it wasnt scary at all. Finnaly i approaced my balcony and flew off of it ..and had an insanely nice trip all over my city - flying around, then i woke up in the same position on my bed. After this happend, even tho i dont really know what to call it - i've read on some sites it was more OBE then a lucid dream.. but i started practicing more and more. And, when i went back to my home country(which all my dreams was set up in mainly as mentioned b4) for vacation - i had series of exactely same thing happening to me about 5 nights in row , but only if i'd stay at my grandfathers place. I dont see any connection, it seems as i had permission to do it there, of some kind.. Since i got back to Canada i had 2 or 3 of these experiences again.. hopefully there are more to come! I tried talking to my friends about it - they told me to see psychatrist, or they'd tell me to take it easy... or just laugh at me. I felt like sharing with all of you. Thx for your patience, if you read the whole thing... couldn't put it in to fewer words, really hard to describe smth like that! With respect - Andrei P.

[person-person]

Hey, cool story. An OBE? That would be very strange, but cool at the same time. That thing bout ur Grand parent, i cant explain but it might have a connection. Keep dreaming! (i am yet to have a 'real' lucid dream where it is maximum realism and control)

[Burns]

Hey Andrei Those are some weird experiences! Since I'm a skeptic of the whole OBE thing, I'll throw this out there as a theory to explain your experience - you are lucid dreaming, but just seeing yourself in the 3rd person. A lot of people have dreams, or lucid dreams, where they aren't 1st person, but instead are seeing the dream from an outside view. Does that make any sense? I don't mean to discount your experience, I'm just offering an alternative explanation. But whatever you're doing, it sounds very interesting! Thanks for posting, and see you around the forum.

[Dr3_thepooner]

Ya, now more and more I tend to think, that it actually was some kind of really vivid LD..As most of the ppl I talked to reject OBE version, or some of them say that 2 terms are/or can be interchangable in some situatuons( i.e. like mine) I just want to add to my original post, i didn't really describe the process of how i become lucid. First time it happned kind of sontaneously. I didnt quite notice the translation... But all the following times I pointed out several destinct stages. Here they are : Usually I become lucid from "within the dream" , sometimes it happens in the morning when i am barely awake - dozzing out. If its in the dream - I always dream of going to bed and then transition start in the "dream bed". 1. The First, what i feel is numbness in whole body + weird vibration - as if i was lying on massager bed. 2. Constant static noise (pretty darn loud) in both of my ears, the kind you hear when its total silence around you, but 10 times louder 3.Then I have this feeling of sudden lightness in the body - it starts lifting up or sliding down the bed or w.e i am lying on, i usually cant control the process. I only can clearly understand - "Here it comes again, i better try not to do anything stupid now and not to wakeup". *The steps 1-3 i cant see a thing ... everything is dark, or i see these hypnotic paterns. 4. It drags me on the floor ... and then I have this kinda second vision kick in, and surroundings are grayish dark + everything is wavy and countours are blurry. 5. At this stage i can only try to take full controll of the dream/w.e it is ... and then I usually try to fly or similar to that. Sometimes i just loose it and dream becomes a regualr sequence of events , or i have FA in the dream on the same bed... Thats about it.

[DreamDudeDave]

Hello Andrei, That is a wild experience you have had I'm sure, though I have not ever done what this might be, which is called astral projection, it is where your spirit leaves your body and is free to roam around town or around the world or even the universe, also there is an astral realm where there is said to be Astral Beings and it is like a Spirit Realm. Here is a link where you can read about Astral Projection and confirm if it is what you have experienced http://www.crystalinks.com/astralprojection.html Good Luck with furthering your progress, Astral and Lucid Dreaming. DDD