Great site and forum. Glad I stumbled across it.
I used to suffer from re-occuring nightmares. Stemming from a shitty childhood and abandonment. These nightmares were ghastly. Usually I was being chased by cannibals or George Romero stalker type zombies. The dream would last for as long as I could run away and would end right before I got eaten. This was from about age 12-33. I actually got to a point where I didnt want to dream anymore. Except that there were a few times a month that I didnt have the nightmares and would be lucid. Needless to say I loved the lucid dream times because I was out of harms way and it was always something fun. Like sex, surfing or flying.
One night when I was 33 something happened that never happened in my dreams before. I was having my typical nightmare..being chased and some ghoul or enemy trying to kill me. But then I became lucid during this nightmare. Never before had that happened. Sure I had pleny of both types of dream. Just not at the same time.
I was in a dark maze like building with the predator on my tail when I got lucid. I realized I was dreaming because I was in a building and every hall I ran down had a dead end. I thought to myself "what kind of building has no connecting hallways?"..and BOOM...lucidity. I turned to my predator and he just vanished. Then turned to the dead end wall I was facing, placed my hands in it like it was water. And opened my arms and the wall with it. Out came a bright rainbow color light streaming like a spotlight, I stepped through into the light and woke up.
Havent had a nightmare since...that was two years ago. It makes me tear up to think about all the years I was afraid to dream. And the miracle which saved my sanity.
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