Newbie 1st time Lucid dreaming & OBE last night

Hi everyone! My name is Tonya & I'm new to this forum and to Lucid dreaming & OBEs.
I have had an interest in Lucid dreaming & OBEs for about 6 months, however I've been unable to make any progress in achieving any sort of lucidity. Last night though I took Galantamind and achieved everything that I've been working on!

At 3:30am I awoke and took 1 Galantamind pill. After about 30 minutes I was engulfed by the loudest jet engine type sound I have ever heard followed by an explosion of colors and light. I went on to hear what felt like millions of voices outside of my bedroom. I then opened my astral eyes (I went to bed wearing an eye mask) and saw a football player standing in front of me in my doorway. He was surrounded in light & floating images. Upon seeing him I heard a football game outside my room. This was all obviously a hypnagogic hallucination, however I could feel that I was out of my body, but my astral body didn't leave my bed. I was completely aware that I had a physical body as well that was in sleep paralysis.

I became nervous and a bit overwhelmed by all of this sensory overload and decided to close my astral eyes. I was becoming afraid of what I might see. I eventually went into a lucid dream. In the dream I was going on a trip (walking) with someone (not sure who, it was a male). In the dream I said to the person "we have to hurry up because I'm sleeping and will wake up soon". After traveling a bit on this trip, I turned to the person and said "we have to turn back now, I'll be waking up soon". We then proceeded to reverse each step we took until I woke up.

I proceeded to then "wake up". I saw my boyfriend in bed next to me and asked him to close the door. He did as I asked but the door kept popping open. He closed it, but again it popped open. This happened over and over again.

I finally then woke up to real life. I realized that my boyfriend wasn't even in bed with me. My door had been closed the whole time.

All while this was happening to me, I was nervous but not terrified. It was just overwhelming. It certainly was by far the most bizarre night I have ever had in my life, and I have been walking around in amazement all day. I do feel a bit un-grounded - that's something I didn't expect to feel, but it makes sense.

I just wanted to share this story with all of you, and I welcome any comments.

Thanks for reading.
Tonya

Welcome to Dreamviews, Tonya! And congrats on you sucess :breakitdown:

The last part, when your boyfriend closed the door was something called FA - false awakening. That's a normal dream, in which we dream of waking up and doing normal things, like getting out of bed, getting ready for work and going about our business.

The first part, as you say wer possibly HH and a lucid dream.

No need to be scared of what you will see. HH and dreams are mostly directed by our thoughts, including fears and expectations. So if you scared you will see something scary, then it just may happen. But if you prepare yourself before bed by looking at some nice images, maaybe your favorite place you would like to visit, then you are quite likely have a nice experience.

Many people here believe that OBEs and LDs are the same thing (I am not one of them). If you would like to talk about OBEs and APs, you may wanna post in Beyond dreaming.

Please feel free to ask if you need help with anything. happy travels:alien:

Hi gab! Thanks so much for your reply! Your insight is really appreciated & makes perfect sense. Your reply back is a comfort to me because I've been feeling un-settled since this all happened.

I actually do need help with something and have had no idea where to look for information on this...
Since my Lucid dream/OBE the other night I have been feeling very ungrounded & almost uneasy in my own body. I guess I'm a bit fearful and shocked by actually achieving all of this. I've been feeling like I really need to feel "human" right now for a little while before I attempt to get lucid again (which I really want to do again). This is such a foreign feeling to me that it actually has been making my stomach a bit queasy. I've felt the need to eat a lot of heavy carb foods and meat. It feels more primal to me.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this? So far I haven't been able to find any documentation of how people feel afterwards.

Thanks for reading!
Tonya

Mostly, people are elated and happy after LD or OBE. But I can completely understand, how that can be unsettling experience. Frankly, I have no idea, how come I didn't freak out, when I floated out of my body first time, through my kitchen, and apartment wall. The only explanation I have is that I was so extremely happy when I discovered LDing, that I wasn't gonna let anything stand in my way.

On other occasion, when i didn't float out, but I felt my inner body stirring and doing flips inside me, I found it very amuzing. I think it helps, that I look at my mind, my physical body and inner bodies (if there are any, I can't prove or disprove, but for now I have them) as partners. One entity. But having different functions and different secrets. But, they are all looking out for MY best interest.

My higher self want to help me in my explorations and discoveries. All i have to do is ask for it and express exactly what I want. My inner body is doing it's thing every night and when I WILD, i may notice these shananigans and either be amuzed and willing to go with it, or be scared and leave it alone.

Instead of feeling disconnected and having a need to feel "human", as you say, I feel the opposit. I feel like I'm not alone with my thoughts and troubles anymore. I don't know why I have this feeling, maybe it's from something I have read. But I like it.

Yeah most people seem to be super happy to achieve this! I thought that I would have been one of them too, but instead I just felt uneasy.
I'm going to keep doing it though. I think that it just was so new to me that it's really thrown me for a whirl! I've been wanting this for so long that achieving it was miraculous to me. I think I just need to work on becoming familiar with it all. I know that this can be an amazing thing!