Can you give me your opinion please

I have been trying on and off for about 2 years now and have given up due to the frustration of nothing happening many times, Last night i wasnt even trying to LD and I didnt even have it on my mind but something very weird happened to me that I have never experienced before and I was wondering could this be a lucid dream?

Basically i was quite tired and i did not have any sleep for about 17-19 hours, I guess i must of been lying in bed quite awake for maybe 20 minutes or something before I fell asleep, thats when this happened.. I felt as if I was awake and my eyes were open but everything was pitch black, I was thinking why is it so dark because I remember there was some light in my room, I couldnt see anything at all! then I thought to myself I know exactly where I am, I fell asleep not so long ago, and this is a dream, am i lucid dreaming it feels so real!

Also another thing I remember is that no matter how much I tried I couldnt move at all which realy annoyed me because I just wanted to enjoy how real it seemed, another thing I noticed was that I had a very distinctive kind of ringing noise in my hear and thinking to myself "is this normal in a lucid dream" reminding myself and saying to myself in my mind to try and keep calm because I thought I could be LDing, and a few seconds later I woke up and opened my eyes, It just amazed me how I felt like I was 100% awake and couldnt see anything. Im just curious was this a lucid dream of any kind?? I have never experienced anything like this before.

Your question might need some clarity.... but it does sound like you could of had a WILD.... I had an experience where I woke up, looked around and my room was different and I knew I was dreaming and got up and flew.... so you may have been, but didnt know to recognize it. If it happens again, do a reality check like a nose plug and see if you can breath

Thanks for the quick reply, Ill remember that if it happens again! :)

Anyone else?

I agree, this does sound to me like you most likely experienced a WILD.

The next time you find yourself paralyzed like this in a dream, try wiggling your fingers/toes first and then working your way around the rest of the body.

Hey,

Sound like you are getting there ... I think you may find this a blessing as you progress. You seem to be very "grounded" in your lucids. I always had the problem of entering totally "unrealistic" planes in my lucids, like i was communing with unbelievable DC's and a lot of the dream was truly indescribable (for lack of a better description).

Stick with it,

FunK

theres so many different type of lucid dreams to varying degrees.
You most likely had one if you knew you were dreaming, but maybe it wasn't a super good one.

Not being able to see in lucids is fairly common. I've read numerous accounts of people who often go blind as soon as they get lucid. Many people often experience a void like you described as well.

You not being able to move makes me think it might be some sort of sleep paralysis. Your body turns off motor control so that when you dream your are running, you don't kick the wall or person in bed with you.

Sounds like that happened just as you fell asleep. Your inability to move may just have came from the lack of a dream body. When you first fall asleep, people often experience hypnagogic imagery, where you see or hear stuff, but only as an observer with no physical body to interact with the images. Real dreaming starts the moment you get a dream body. So your inability to move my be from it being too early in the dream and not having a dream body yet. The early parts of dreams are notoriously unstable.

isn't sleep paralysis like a portal way into lucid dreaming? like to close your eyes and "fall backward" into a dream?

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Originally Posted by lucidspark64

isn't sleep paralysis like a portal way into lucid dreaming? like to close your eyes and "fall backward" into a dream?

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Yes, you can do this, but it is not required.