Thread: Backfiring dream

Hi all,

I just learnt about all of this and started to work on it 2 days ago. Anyways, both nights I remembered dreams evertytime I woke up except for once which is great because I barely ever remembered dreams before.(Once a week or once a month I might have been able to recall something in the past but that was it) Since I started I've probably remembered 6 or 7 dreams after waking up(although most I've forgotten now). I started writing last night in a dream journal however. My first dream was fairly normal(well not really) until the end when I think I was very close to going lucid:

Dream #1: I was doing homework and watching the Price Is Right for some reason. Anyways, it turned into a quiz show and the question in the showcase showdown was abouit the same stuff as in my homework. For some reason my mom was in the dream(she's about 1000km away right now) and she scolded me for not knowing the answer on the show that was something in my homework. Anyways, then I looked at the screen and this guy had won a car in the showcase showdown of Price is Right. He got in it and it blew up. But he was ok. Anyways, all of a sudden I'm not sure if it was him or me but I saw a New York Times newspaper on a forehead with New York Times showing in bold at the top and then I woke up saying "This is Fake". I figure I was very close to lucidity when I said that but instead I woke up. Weird feeling I can say.

The second dream, and this is the one that backfired:

Dream #2: I've been playing a lot of Battlefield 2 gaming which is a war simulatior where you capture areas of a map with a flag. Anyways it was part of my dream. I was in the dream and I noticed that someone was going to die on the field near a flag. But for some reason I was watching either myself or someone else dreaming all this in my dream. I convinced the dream me or whoever was dreaming this scene to go lucid and get in there and save this person and they did. In other words my dreamself or whoever it was sleeping in my dream was the one that went Lucid. Does this make any sense and what does it mean?


If anyone has insights please let me know. I'd love to hear em. I just ordered the book Lucid Dreaming in 30 days and should have it by Thursday I'd think. Also, I have a few questions:

How often do people go lucid on average? 5 or 6 times a year? once a week? Sometimes everynight?

Also, I woke up at about 8am this morning after about 8.5 hours of sleep and I decided to try sleeping again and everytime I had my eyes closed I started to have pictures flow through my mind just about like sleep but I was still conscious and awake pretty much.(like on the verge of sleep) yet I could control things. I take it this is just daydreaming right? Because I felt like I was in the third person view and it wasn't anything spectacular.

Finally, how real does it feel when you have a lucid dream? If you're walking in your house does it feel just about exactly like it would if you were really doing it in real life? One thing I find with my dreams is they always feel so dark(the picture I mean) it feels like it's far away, the visuals suck in other words. Do lucid dreams change that in the sense that everything becomes more realistic?

Thanks a lot in advance,

I can't answer all your questions but here are a few comments.

Originally posted by drewhosick

How often do people go lucid on average? 5 or 6 times a year? once a week? Sometimes everynight?

Different people have different lucid dream frequencies. Some match each of the ranges you mentioned. Myself, I've been trying this again for 3 months now, and my number of lucid dreams per month has been 4, 5, then 8, so it is getting higher each month. I haven't had one now for 8 days so I'm a bit worried but I hope that is a temporary set back.

You mentioned your Battlefield 2 dream. I don't play that game but I do play Unreal Tournament 2004 a lot and I dream about it a lot, either playing the game, or different parts of the game show up in other dreams, like the weapons or vehicles. Last night when I was going to bed I tried one of the meditation/relaxation techniques before I fell asleep, and my mind kept wandering to playing that game and I kept having to stop it.

You asked how lucid dreams feel. I think they feel cool. They aren't 100% like waking real life, for me, but they can be quite realistic, sometimes more than others. Sometimes I can see things really clearly, and when I'm flying I can see long distances, when this happens I'm always amazed my mind can recreate these images because when I'm awake and close my eyes and try to imagine something, I can barely see something, it is mostly ideas.

thx for posting,

I'm just kinda curious if lucid dreaming feels like normal dreams in the sense that most dreams just about feel like you're watching it on tv or in a third person view. Is it different with Lucid dreams?

I've had three LD's in total, all within the same month- the same month I started (September). The first LD was a fluke and I don't count it. To sum up my second, it was unbelievably realistic, with logos on Coffee cups, calenders, lots of minute realistic type things. I attainted my second lucid dream using MILD. The third LD I had was a false awakening, I did a reality check and found my clock looking very different than in reality, e.g. green floating LEDs instead of fixed red ones- this however didn't mean anything to me, and it wasn't until I looked again and saw a different time did I realise I was dreaming.

This dream was very surreal, I was in my room and moving very sluggishly, and almost floating. It was like looking at a stereoscopic picture without the 3d effect (like watching a 3D film without glasses). I began to glide through my door, at which point I awoke.