Hello from West Midlands, UK

**Mattallic** · 01-24-2014 08:23 AM

Hello everyone.

My name is Matt and I'm 25. I haven't been religious in LD, but I'm doing it at my own pace. But Last night something exciting but weird happened last night. I lay still in bed (trying to keep the Mrs from kicking me lol), and started breathing, focusing on that (meditation?). Anyway it just happened. Remember it is as dark as putting your hands over your eyes. But at first it was like the sun had just risen and you know when your momentary blinded by it, as though you just walked out of a dark room into daylight. Then the image started taking shape. I was in first person and sat on a stump of a tree that had been cut down, in a beautiful grassy field. Nothing I've ever seen before. The Greenest grass you could ever think of, birds chirping, sparkles what I gathered could be pollen glittering from the sun. Something from a fantasy. My hands came into view and I was just simply looking around with a daisy in my hand. Now no soon as I realised it wasn't real, I remember I'm lying on my bed, I got excited, then poof disappeared and reality set back in. This has never happened to me before I don't think I can explain what happened (wild?). Maybe you experts can.

Anyway hope this isn't a ridiculous first post.

Take care,
Matt.

**LouaiB** · 01-24-2014 03:33 PM

Welcome! Not ridiculous at all!

**gab** · 01-25-2014 01:59 AM

Welcome to Dreamviews!

That beautiful image you say, I think it was hypnogogic hallucination - HH. It is a dream that started to form. We only notice it, if we are still awake at the time, when we are normally already asleep and our dreams start.

Or, you could have been already inside of a dream, and then you became lucid by realizing that it's not real.

In any case, yes, those HH or dreams can be breathtaking. Colors more vivid, shapes more focused than in waking life.

Btw, when it was dark behind your closed eyelids and it suddenly became bright - this happened to me a few times when WILDing and I was just on the verge of entering lucid dream. So, you were either just about to enter, or you have actually entered LD. Nice experience, congrats

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