Thread: This is messed up!!

so i was in bed and i thought i had already went to sleep and i had a "dream"
so i snapped out of the whole not knowing its just a dream thing an i finally did a reality check. i plugged my nose and tried to breath out of it and guess what happened? i could breath! i said to myself "this is a dream?". i was confused but then i could suddenly feel my body in bed. i never had a chance as i kinda woke up.






what the heck was this? a fake dream? a real dream but i just had to wake up from it? Im REALLY confused .

I've heard spinning around in circles in your dream can keep it going... try that next time.

mmm, i wouldn't recommend spinning around. it never helped me and i hear it makes alot of people wake up. I would suggest rubbing hands together. that one is the best

Well I've never had a LD so your advice is better than mine >.<

It was possibly a dream that happened as you were just barely drifting off to sleep, so when you became lucid you weren't deepened in the dream state very much, and the heightened brain activity woke you up.

I agree with Carmine. You were likely dreaming very lightly.

I've had a lucid or two where I've also felt my sleeping body. That's my sign that I'm about to wake up (usually) and rubbing my hands together helped me to focus on the dream and on my dreaming body. Everything went black for a while, but I kept at it and returned to the dream. The key is to keep reminding yourself that you're dreaming or you'll forget.

Congratulations on realizing you were dreaming, though