Hello to everyone, I am new here. I had a rather frightening experience last night which led me to do some research. I was, prior to today, unfamiliar with the concept of lucid dreaming, other than I had heard the term somewhere before and nothing beyond that.

What happened was that I underwent a series of countless dreams where I would "awaken" in the dream, in the same manner I always do in normal life, and then strange things would occur culminating in (usually) nightmarish events. At certain points in the dreams I would somehow figure out I was still asleep and dreaming, and things would usually change course at that point from strange or odd to frightening. As this continued on, over and over, I would realize that I was still dreaming earlier and earlier in each dream sequence until I was at the point where I just assumed I was still dreaming each time I "awoke". While most of these sequences would end in feelings of fear and horror, they ended up starting with me being pretty teed off.

I have no idea how many of these dreams I had, one right after the other, but there could have been dozens or hundreds for all I know. I felt like it had taken a year when I finally woke for real after some hour or so after I had originally fallen asleep. The strange thing is how much I could remember from so many dreams. All of these "false awakenings" as they are apparently called would start exactly the same way, and the same way I wake every morning in life. My wife would wake me up, I would turn off my cpap machine, take of the mask, stand up and head towards the door of our bed room. Then the dream would progress in my house or somehow transition to elsewhere, usually a place I work or go to often. I would notice things out of place, and at that point the dream would turn very dark.

As soon as I had "lucidity", I would notice everything that didn't make sense, even if it seemed to a moment before, and try to question the people around me, who would then argue with me illogically. And somehow this usually angered them and led to my being attacked or something. And then suddenly I was waking up again, and this would repeat over and over and over. When I finally woke for real, well before I was supposed to, and was able to verify I was indeed awake, I got out of that bed and just stayed up the rest of the night. I was absolutely done with it. I woke up very angry.

I cannot recall ever having such an experience, even on a far smaller scale, as I barely dream as it is. And I do not remember having a dream where so many details were fresh in my mind after waking, and for so many different dreams. And the fact that I still remember so much some 14 or 15 hours later is incredible.

I found this site by chance while researching dreaming, and figured I would toss out what my experience was, and maybe read a little bit here. I get the impression that most here want to experience this phenomenon, but at this point, I think I have experienced it enough for a life time and don't want it again. It all seemed more like some psychotic episode than an "adventure" to me.