Thread: hello. can someone explain please.

Hi there. I found my way to this site in the hope of finding an explination for the strange but euphoric experience i had last week. I have read many of your posts now and have come to the conclusion that i must had had a lucid dream, although at the time it felt so real.

if I could just explain a little first about my experiences with dreamland.

I have mostly always had quite vivid colourful dreams with increadibly detailed recall. People often wonder why my dream recall is so detailed when my 'reality' memory is so bad. I have had dream experiences where for a few nights in a row i can go back into the same dream to continue it, a bit like a series on T.V and a few times i have even had end credits appear at the end of a dream ( silly as it sounds ). I have even had a few predictive dreams, unfortunatly though these never have the lottery numbers. A couple of times i have realised i was dreaming and have been able to controll what was hapening but this seemed nothing unusual and i would usualy wake up soon after realising it.

When younger, in my teens i started to experience something rather frightening and upsetting. It would start with aloud whoshing noise and then i would be paralysed but awake or so it seemed. I would have the most awful terryfying halucinations and struggle to move and call for help. then suddenly i would wake up and with relief get up and go and make a cup of tea or something only to find that the terryfying thing wa with me once more and that i hadn't woken at all, i only dreamed i had and then it was back to the paralysis and calling for help. this could be repeated a number of times untill eventually i really never knew if i was awake or asleep. overthe years i learned how to controll this sort of sleep state and now if i get the whooshing sound i know theres no turning back from the paralysis and thebest thing to do is not to fight it and go with the flow of it untill i somehow spot a point in this state where i am morelikely to 'wake up' than at any other point. if that makes sense?

However these are not the reasons i found my way to this board and i'm sorry if this has already made long and boaring reading.

Last week, it was quite late,about 2 am and i was lying in bed with my i pod playing a relaxation meditation hypnotherepy CD ( with subliminal messages) I remember thinking how wonderfully relaxed i felt when without warning i was yanked headfirst out of my body and heading towards a bright white cloud. I remember feeling extreemly shocked at this and jerked myself backwards into my body again but as i did i felt a sort of male presence with me reasuring me that it would be ok. then i was yanked back out again and broke through the white light into the most increadabley vividly coloured landscape you couldn't even begin to imagine. so colourful it was vibrating and so detailed that i could almost see the detail right down to an atomic level. This male presance kept reasuring me and i felt overwhellmed with euphoria calm peace love.. not sure how to define it.. then we were off. flying at increadable speed towards a small town. On the way the presance explained that he would show me a number of things in order to let me know that my life choices were only limited by my expectations. but that no matter what my choices were i would always be supported by him/them. There was a very spiritual feeling to all this but i would have to say that i am not particularly religious though i do sort of believe in some spiritual stuff but not in a fanatical way or anything. I won't bother you with the details of the content of the rest of the 'dream' but i can tell you i visited a number of locations and senarios in it and i remember thinking at the time that this was not a dream becuase i knew I was not controlling it - it was guiding me. anyhow it all ended quite naturally when i asked the presance to tell me what i could do to 'give something back' and he told me to be truthful and kind and to tell people how wonderful they were as their happiness would be my happiness. I said i understood and at that moment i was whooshed back into my body very quickly with a feeling of dissapointment that i was back and Paul Mc Kenna ( a CD hypnotist ) chatting through my i pod earphones. I lay there for a while, heart beating fast feeling quite disorientated but knowing that i'd experienced something very special.

Nothing like this as ever happened to me before but i don't think id mind to much if it happened again. i have estimated from the time the C.D's run on my i pod that this musthave lasted for at least an hour.

So. can you tell me if this is typical of a lucid dream.. or so you think it was something more. A psychic friend of mine says it was astral travel. my partner says it was just a vivid dream and my son asked me where i'd hidden the crystal meths!

Sorry, ive just realised how long this post is.... Is anyone still there?