Series of lucid mini-dreams last night
Hi everyone,
I just had a really memorable experience last night, and thought I'd like to share it, as well as ask for some any advice on how to proceed...
First off, I'm not really familiar with lucid dreaming, as I've only started searching on the web about it today. (though I knew the term, so I must have heard it sometimes years back in college or something).
Anyway, here's what happened. Last night, at about 4 AM, the 2 new kittens I've adopted started getting really rowdy and wrestling on my bed. I ended up grabbing them after about 5 minutes of this, and locking them in a room downstairs,
When I went back to bed, I was laying on my back, with my hands kind of clasped across my chest under the covers when I felt an animal jump up on my bed, and walk over me. I thought to myself "no way they got out of there" as I reached for, and grabbed the cat (which immediatly started purring). I was amazed at the unlikelyhood that It was back upstairs, but was also glad my initial fear that a squirrel or something had gotten into the house (ha ha) was unfounded. Anyway, I was trying to reach the lamp to turn it on, when suddenly, the cat was gone, and my hands were back under the covers clasped across my chest.
I figured out in seconds that I had been dreaming, and that the cats were still locked downstairs. So I closed my eyes to go back to sleep, and within just 15 seconds or so, I felt a cat jump up on the bed again. Well, this time, I was thinking, you've got to be kidding, I thought I just established that it was a dream! So I grabbed it, and just petted it for a bit. Eventually, I decided to get up, and take it downstairs, and suddenly...it was gone, and again, hands back under the covers, etc.
I swear this happened like 4-5 times with little change, but somewhere in there, I ended up accepting that I was dreaming the cat while it was actually happening. So then I figured, if I'm dreaming, I'll try to change stuff. I actually had a little success in this, things like making another person present, and being somewhere else (though more often than not it came out differently than what I was trying to make happen).
After the first 4-5 episodes where I didn't figure out I was dreaming in the dream, I must have had another 6 or 7 where I knew I was dreaming. They all started the same, with the unlikely cat, and they were all VERY short. Just a minute or two of perceived dream time before I woke for a few moments in the exact same position I started in.
It was a facinating experience, and one that I've never had before.
I'd love to have these more often, but was a bit frustrated by how short they were. Is it normal to have series of these coupled with a few moments waking? Any idea what could have triggered this? I'm 33, and I guess I would have thought that if I would ever have a waking dream like this it would have shown itself already. I'm going to try to duplicate this again, I'll probobly even kick the cats out if I wake up in the middle of the night whether they're being irritating or not :lol:
Hope the post wasn't too long. Any insights or suggestions would be very welcome.
Thanks!
