Was this the beginning of a lucid dream?
In the late hours of this morning, I found myself in an unusually clear and detailed dream, which I'll tell you about: Me and a friend were walking through a moat with very steep and high limestone walls, bushes and plants growing everywhere and a beaten path running through the middle, and eventually we came across these dark green plants. When we touched them, we'd experience a sudden flurry of very frightening visions and thoughts, but it felt like a thrill, almost an adrenaline rush. At this point I'm not sure what happened, but we must have either continued to the end of the moat or gone back the way we came, because we met another friend. The friend I'd been with originally started to insist we go and try it again, and I reluctantly agreed, while the other friend wouldn't have any part of it. On the way back through the moat, I heard the sound of gunshots, and turned around to see these birds perched in the wall's gaps dropping one by one. The gunmen (who I assumed to be the school's maintenance workers...) were out of sight, round the corner, but I started running fearing that I would be mistaken for a bird :roll: . When I caught up with my friend who was only a few metres in front of me, he seemed to have no idea that armed men were right behind us. Anyway, we continued, and eventually came to a dusty, dark room that was familiar from real life but not in the dream. Even though there was only one enterance to the tunnels linking the moat to the surface, we suddenly found ourselves in a difference place. The stone and dust was replaced by concrete walls and floors which were clean and shiny, and there were several windows, out of which there were beautiful scenes of snow-capped mountains. We started to become frightened because we couldn't find our way out...and this is where I think I almost reached lucidity.
I suddenly realised that the enironment couldn't change like that and it dawned on me that all this was a bit ridiculous, because I've never been inside such a building and there are no mountains in this country at all. Suddenly the dream ended and all I could see was darkness. Strangely, when I tried to move, I could move my legs but not my arms. I started repeating to myself mentally: 'This is just a dream, this is just a dream, this is just a dream.' and I heard this rushing sound, like the sound of air buffeting your head on a stormy day. I felt my upper half spinning (this may have been because I'd remembered a technique that I'd read a while ago on a lucidity website, but I'm not sure).
Unfortunately, as soon as all this started it was over :( . I felt scared (partly because of the scariness of the dream itself) and woke up. I had another ridiculous dream last night and I thought briefly that this was quite unrealistic, but never got to the state of realising i was dreaming.
Was this a lucid dream in the making? If so, how do I try to stay asleep next time? I just hope I'll be able to experience this again...
Re: Was this the beginning of a lucid dream?
Yes it was a lucid dream
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If your visuals do go out on you, then you often will find yourself in a black void much like a cave or a womb. If you find that you have lost your visuals, you may verbally intend more visuals to appear which sometimes works or you can just wait it out. Just DON’T GIVE UP AND DECIDE TO WAKE UP! Hold onto your lucidity and stare into the blackness. Eventually, a whole new dreamscape will appear. Once the dreamscape appears you will already be standing in it and you will be lucid or sometimes you may even have to consciously step into the dreamscape. .....
