Yeah, I was surprised after that initial tunnel experience, because I had no precedent for it whatsoever, and yet I later read that other people have similar experiences. Unfortunately I was going so fast that--like you said--the lights on the tunnel walls were just a streaky blur. It wasn't until just fractions of a second before I exited the tunnel that--because I was slowing down--I caught a very brief and momentary glimpse of the "lights" on the tunnel walls. Like I said they were images of people and places. When I think back to how I was feeling and what my intuitions were, my best guess is that those images represented possible locations or realities where I could access via wormhole (I considered this tunnel to be a wormhole).

WakingNomad has written elsewhere on this forum about wormholes. In his experience travel through them is so rapid as to seem instantaneous. I'm wondering, however, if perhaps there are other factors. For instance, if the physical distance the wormhole must travel is exceedingly large, will travel through it take longer? As I mentioned, my wormhole experience seemed to last for about 6 or 7 seconds. Though indeed I was traveling at incredible velocities.

Anyway, the LD that followed was interesting in its own right. I landed in a lady's living room. I didn't recognize her, but she was super excited to see me. Because this was actually my first induced LD (I had had them as a child and would still occasionally get them; this one occurred after weeks of effort of rebuilding dream recall and incubating lucid dreams), I was too excited to pay any attention to what she was saying. In retrospect I wish I could have asked her "What planet am I on!?" Perhaps I'll get a chance to visit her again one evening.

I'd like to hear more about your tunnel experiences. It seems that there is quite a bit of commonality in our experiences; and the more we can learn, perhaps the more we can learn how to navigate them.