Hi there my friend. |
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I just got back from a couple of weeks overseas and had a long flight where I couldn't sleep, so my patterns are all over the place. I have been a bit ill lately (which has been worrying me), and I have a fear of flying (I had to do four flights in ten days). So my anxiety levels have been quite high. This morning I woke up at 5 and was still really tired from all the travel, so I went back to bed at 7. I fell into a strange sleep that I feel was a lucid dream. I was able to control my actions and do things that I wanted to do in the dream. The first part of the dream was quite fun, but then I started to freak out because I knew I was asleep and wasn't sure how to wake up. I felt like I should know but I couldn't quite grasp it. Then something in the back of my mind said to listen for a noise in the real world as something to help me wake up. Eventually I heard my two year old son playing in the living room, which did wake me up. I felt like I'd been asleep for days, but it was only an hour. I then had a bit of a panic attack because I felt like reality wasn't the same anymore, and I had been scared about not being able to snap myself out of the dream. It was a bit like the movie Inception - and now I wonder what the point of our existence is because won't it be the same when we die? This whole plane just disappears? |
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Hi there my friend. |
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You're lucky that your problem was not being able to wake up. The problem is usually the opposite. |
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Thank you everyone so much for your kind words - years ago I was quite interested in the idea of LD'ing, but had forgotten about the concept in recent times. I have very vivid dreams, but have only been aware of actually dreaming a couple of times. This was the first one where I could change things to suit my wishes. And while this was good at first, I felt like I had entered this new world without being fully prepared. I will read through the forum and see what else I can learn. Thank you again. I feel much more relaxed now - and perhaps I can explore the concept that reality isn't as fixed as I want it to be |
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I had another one last night... this time when it started, I decided not to go too deep because I wanted to focus on how to wake up without freaking out. With both dreams, there was an element of fuzziness at the beginning where I could choose to push through into full manipulation, or just let it go. So this time I let it go, and the dream changed into another scene that was a wake-up from the previous scene, but I knew it wasn't reality, so I relaxed a bit more and told myself to just wait for a moment. Then I was able to wake up properly. So yay - I'm not scared anymore. |
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