Brand spankin' noob.

**Looms** · 09-24-2008 02:39 AM

Hello, I am quite new to this site, although I'm not exactly new to LD. It used to happen all the time when I was in my teens, but I had slowly lost the ability to control what happened in my dreams after I had a nightmare.

I had become fully lucid in the dream, and I felt normal. Everything was vivid as usual, and I had only slight problems taking off for flight (I was a bit wobbly, but it happened every so often, so I didn't think anything of it). I was on my way to anywhere as I planned what I was going to do, when all of a sudden, I was in a tunnel, with no exit at the back and bars at my head. It closed in on me, so I bent the steel bars and flew out thinking, "Oh, well that was strange!".

Then, It happened again...only this time, the bars weren't bendable. I employed heat-vision to melt them this time, only mildly worried. As the dream went on, I encountered more traps. Each new one was more sinister than the last. I had to dig, melt, bend, teleport, and think my way out of each of them as the tunnel eventually was consistently around me and the bars were now just appearing in front of me as soon as I got through the last one. I eventually started to panic, and I was fighting for my life (or so I thought, really I was fighting for control...and struggling).

Eventually I forced a false awakening because I was too frightened and frustrated to continue, and the nightmare began again, only this time things started right as I got out of bed. I must have had 15 false awakenings like this, only to be trapped in the same dream over and over again. I eventually woke up though; just as soon as I gave up and stopped fighting.

I hadn't yet heard the term lucid dream until I asked a friend why I couldn't control my dreams anymore, to which he responded, "You can't control your dreams!". He later saw the term lucid dream online and pointed me toward some resources. I only read some definitions and was shocked to learn that it doesn't happen to everybody!

Recently, I was browsing the web and did a search on LD and was amazed to find a site called Lucidipedia. I had a journal on there, and suddenly the site just stopped working

(maybe they didn't pay the bill? Oh well!) I stumbled upon this site 3 days ago and I am quite a bit happier with it already (I'm still going to keep a journal on my laptop jic because I can't retrieve the dreams I've posted to that site now

)

Ever since the nightmare, I have had some recurring nightmares/dreams, some with continuity, some just repeats. I hope to write some in my dream journal, and I hope to eventually become fully lucid again.

**slayer** · 09-24-2008 03:15 AM

Welcome to Dream Views! We hope you have a great time here, and if you have any questions (ANY!) then don't be afraid to ask.

**Caradon** · 09-24-2008 04:40 AM

Welcome To Dream Views Looms! What you describe about the bars, has happened to me quite a few times with power-lines when trying to fly.

It's also happened to me while climbing staircases, and the walls of buildings or cliffs. Sometimes the climb is endless.

It's nothing to worry about, it's a normal kind of dream thing. Remember there is no reason to be afraid in a dream. Next time something like that happens, just try to relax. Your emotions play a large part in creating what happens in the dream.

That sucks about losing your journal.

Good luck.

**noxincane** · 09-24-2008 06:15 AM

Wow I stumbled into the wrong forum. I thought this was dream experiences. I was like WOW your web browsing in your sleep.

Oh and welcome

**Dreamhope11** · 09-24-2008 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by noxincane

Wow I stumbled into the wrong forum. I thought this was dream experiences. I was like WOW your web browsing in your sleep.

Oh and welcome

There is a dream experiences section to the forum, just to let ya know

**Looms** · 09-24-2008 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by noxincane

Wow I stumbled into the wrong forum. I thought this was dream experiences. I was like WOW your web browsing in your sleep.

Oh and welcome

Haha, I actually read someone's journal where they were browsing the web in their dreams.

Originally Posted by Dreamhope11

There is a dream experiences section to the forum, just to let ya know

Heh, I was tired when I posted this, but thanks!

Thanks everybody, I will be DJing daily, and hopefully I will have some lucids to post.

**Genesis Tech** · 09-26-2008 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by Looms

Haha, I actually read someone's journal where they were browsing the web in their dreams.

Yeah, if I remember correctly a long time ago (when I was still lurking) one of the Lucid Tasks of the Month was to browse the DV homepage in your dream. I did it, it was so weird....

**Looms** · 09-26-2008 03:41 AM

eerily enough, last night I was posting in forums in my dream...it just so happened that a post sucked you into cyberspace...text changes on some pages all the time though, so it didn't work as an RC... It looked like live feed type posting.