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Hi :) I am just feeling my way around this site having joined today... Hope im posting in the right place. My background is in psychology and I have been lucid dreaming - intentionally - for about a year now. Initially it would happen quite by chance and was something I found very unpleasant. Usually feelings of not being able to wake up after realising I was dreaming or not being able to stay asleep if I was enjoying the experience.
I became interested in intentional lucid dreaming after having an experience while not being able to sleep one night which involved flying through what felt like a kaleidescope of colours and realising I was in control. Anyway I find that most lucid dreaming takes place after 6 am especially if I have not been able to sleep during the night. My lucid dreams are usually preceded by an unpleasant auditory hallucination (loud whistling whooshing noise with feeling of dread) which I am only just starting to get used to. I now realise that when I experience this noise I am about to luicd dream.
When entering the dream I am fully aware that I am dreaming and firstly reality test. I usually spin around and rub my hands together at the most conscious moments for fear of waking up and then I might rub the ground to see what the grass feels like etc. At these moments I am fully aware that I am asleep and I am able to make logical deductions and even remember things I have read and spoken to people about regarding lucid dreaming. I am able to fully control my movements and motion and am always able to locate a mirror to look at my reflection which usually begins very like me then changes. Last night I had an enormous pink rabbit stood behind me its view almost totally obscured by my reflection.
My dreams always take place in houses or streets where I have lived and are very alike. Sometimes my dream will begin in the place and postion I am actually in. The problem that I have and its a big one is that I CAN NOT control my environment. I can not bring people into my dream I just walk around calling them and they wont appear. I can not control where I am or what my surroundings look like. I want beautiful garden I get dead weeds and clouds. I want Jim Morrison I get the milkman...or a squid :? !!! If I cant control my environment lucid dreaming becomes POINTLESS as I can control my movements and touch the grass in my own back garden while im awake :lol: ..... So in all not quite there yet? ha ha ha ha... Thank you to anyone who bothered to read I tend to be a bit wordy.........
Anna x
