Hell-Oh.
21/m/IN. Moved around the US a lot with the mom, eventually settling here.
Deh. I decided to engage in LD after accidentally having one, a couple months ago, and not being able to recreate this. It had never happened before, and hasn't happened again. And so here we are, at the end of night one.
I hadn't really heard about lucid dreaming until recently, and decided to read up on it.
Very cool idea/prospect. I'm very adventurous, and would love the ability to actually take control of my dreams :D . A couple questions...
One, I really only remember having one dream a week, or every few days. Is this possible, or do I just not remember dreams that I have, because I enter new sleep periods :? ?
Anyway, just started keeping a dream journal/dedicating myself to LD, as of last night. I had a weird experience:
At first, I couldn't fall asleep. I kept saying to myself "I will be sure to wake up, and record my dreams", even though I had an alarm. It was keeping me up.
Eventually, I'd start to relax, and then I experienced a new feeling. It was unpleasant. It would feel like I was eternally sinking, even though I wasn't moving, while at the same time losing consciousness/dozing off. Also, my breathing would slow, to a complete stop. The worst part is that there was a burning sensation, all over my body, like suffocating. The breaths my body took became more and more shallow. I "went with this feeling",attempting to slip into unconsciousness, until I couldn't take the shallow breaths, anymore. I wasn't trying to suffocate myself, or stop breathing. My body did it on it's own, and I just went along with it. Eventually, I'd stop this feeling by "snapping out of it" :shock: .
I didn't fall asleep for hours :( .
Eventually, I just stopped telling myself that I'd "be sure to wake up and record my dreams" or "try to do reality checks in my dream", like I've been doing in real life. I fell asleep, and had a rather...ridiculous dream. I didn't get to see it's conclusion, and in the dream, I just went along with it. I woke up before it "finished", and was sure to record every detail. The more I wrote, the more I was like "what the f*ck!? this is ridiculous. :shakehead2: " So many details made no sense. Details that are common in a few of my dreams, actually. I attempted to go back to sleep, but to no avail.
Hmph. :mad:
