Waking up in dream experiences

**Nash** · 11-26-2011 08:50 PM

Hey everybody,

My name is Nash and I´m new on this forum.
The reason I registered is because of my following experiences:

A few weeks ago I had a dream and in that dream I was flying (not lucid). But I did not want to fly, I was affraid of falling. Some woman made me fly or something. So in the sky at that moment, I realized that I was dreaming. After I realized that, I closed my eyes and felt a sensation in my head, kind of a weird rotating pressure or something.
After that I woke up, in another dream, laying down in the middle of a village on a field.. I realized this when I woke up to reality.

A few days later I had kind of a Lucid Dream. In my dream I was in a foreign country (My moms country). I was at my aunts home. At some point in the dream I started thinking: ´I dont remember I took an airplane to here..´. From that point on a knew I was dreaming and it felt very very real. But it didnt feel complete because I could not fly, so maybe it was close to a lucid dream?

This night, I had a dream where some ghost or entity dragged me under water, very cold icy water. I was trying to save a child from drowning. After that, this ghost (Looked like a man with a hat or so) dragegd me under water, trying to drown me. But then in the dream I realized that I did not feel cold or anything so I knew I was dreaming. Then again I felt this pressure kind of feeling in my head and woke up to another dream, like my first dream. I dreamt that I woke up in my room, telling my brother what I experienced in my dream.
After that, I woke up to reality, thinking, What was that?!?!

Recently I have been doing a lot of spiritual research and I have been thinking a lot about conciousness. Then I started to have these dreams.

Also in the movie 'Inception' they wake up in other dreams.. In another way because its a movie, but still.

Can somebody relate to this? Or give me an explanation about why I have these dreams?

I like these dreams though, its not a bad thing at all

Thanks in advance!

Nash

**Darkmatters** · 11-26-2011 08:55 PM

Hi Nash, welcome to Dreamviews!

Ok, the definition of lucidity is just that you know you're dreaming while you're dreaming. That's it.

So, this means the first dream you described (flying unintentionally) was lucid, and so was the second. If you're aware that you're in a dream, that's lucidity.

The 'waking up into another dream' thing - it's what's called a False Awakening. You can use that to become lucid if you train yourself to always do Reality Checks every time you wake up. For an explanation of what Reality Checks are, look at the DV Wiki: Wiki - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Congratulations! Sounds like you've done it the way a lot of people do - get to lucidity via a nightmare. That's fairly common. I'd reccomend you spend some time in here and read up - sounds like you have the ability.

**Nash** · 11-26-2011 09:13 PM

Thanks! Those reality checks seem interesting to do.. will have a look around here.

**Darkmatters** · 11-26-2011 09:21 PM

Glad to hear it!!

One thing to bear in mind - often when people first begin to become lucid they have experiences like you described - realizing it's a dream, but not yet becoming aware of the full implications of that fact - namely that since it's only a dream nothing can hurt you. If you fall out of the sky, so what? Just laugh and enjoy the ride - it's fun to see what your mind dreams up when you hit the ground or what crazy ways it comes up with to keep you from hitting the ground.

Also, dream control is not the same thing as lucidity. I bring this up because you said this: "But it didnt feel complete because I could not fly"

You won't always be able to fly or have any kind of powers in every lucid dream. Sometimes you will, sometimes you won't. Some people get very good at dream control. If you stick with it and practice some of the lucidity techniques you'll find on this site you should be able to increase your dream control considerably.

But just keep in mind that in a dream nothing can hurt you, and lucid dreams will become fun.

**Naiya** · 11-27-2011 01:21 AM

Hi Nash, welcome to Dreamviews! Darkmatters is completely right, lucid dreaming is just knowing that you're dreaming. Dream control is a kind of separate skill, although it's related and most people have no problem with at least some dream control even in their first lucids. You can be lucid and have no dream control, or you can have dream control but not be lucid.

I have lots of false awakenings, and I will something wake up in a dream within a dream, too, like in Inception. It helps to RC after you wake up in the morning, because if you make a habit of always RCing after you wake, then you'll catch those false awakenings and get lucid.

**Nash** · 11-28-2011 05:40 PM

Thanks for the info!

It seems a bit scary though.. Dont want to end up having difficulties seperating reality from dreaming. Dream control sounds amazing though.. it will be like having a second life or something I think. It takes great effort to achieve this state probably.