Trouble waking....

**silverdragon** · 07-26-2008 07:12 PM

Hello. Hope I can get some insight here. I tend to lucid dream by accident, but when it happens I truly enjoy it. There is only one problem...when I decide I am done I have an extremely hard time waking up sometimes.
I just took a nap a few minutes ago and it happened again. I realized I was dreaming and decided to forgo this trip, but when I tried to wake up I couldn't. I can only describe the physical feeling of the failed process of waking like trying to swim upward to the surface of a lake through a thick mire.
This time my mind tried to fool me into thinking I had waken by putting me into a setting of "my house"....but once I got up and walked around a bit, I realized I was not in my house, and that I was in fact still dreaming. I tried to wake again, and it was a very intense . I even tried shouting as I fought for consciousness as that sometimes helps to push me on out of it.
It didn't work this time, and I ended up just sitting on the dream couch and waiting for my body to decide to wake on it's own lol.
Why can I lucid dream so easily at times yet cannot always get out of it when I want? And is it normal for your mind to fight you like this?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for listening

SD

**MRooney** · 07-26-2008 07:30 PM

Wow, that sucks. Try killing yourself, that'll wake you up.

**ninja9578** · 07-27-2008 02:50 PM

I also brought out my banhammer because I thought MRooney was being rude, then I read your post. Actually, he's right

Killing yourself may wake you up. I've always found it easier to simple close your eyes for a moment, you should come out of your dream.

**Delilah** · 07-27-2008 03:09 PM

I've had the same problem as you, but only two or three times. I onced asked some friends what they did to wake themselves up when they realised they were dreaming.

One said he killed himself, but he also said he looked for "flaws" in the dream, like things that just didn't belong, and touched them. They "teleported" them into the waking life. He compared them to "port keys" in Harry Potter, if you've ever read that or watched the films.

Another friend of mine said he screamed very loudly, and that woke him up.

A third friend told me he just closed his eyes, like I do.

You could try closing your eyes and "feeling" your body lying in bed. Sometimes I wake up without wanting to because I can feel my body lying in bed.

Verbal commands are also pretty useful in dreams. You should try coming up with a word that when you say it, you wake up. Just something as simple as "Wake up!" can do it, if your dream responds to verbal commands - sometimes if I just think something, it doesn't work for me in a dream.

Maybe you'll just end up finding your own unique way to wake up.

I hope this helps.

**silverdragon** · 07-27-2008 04:37 PM

Thanks for the input...I have actually died in dreams before and I found it very unpleasant, as I can feel everything while dreaming...I have all my senses. Think I will give the other suggestions a go lol.
We'll see what happens