Originally Posted by
StrDreamer
About me: Before I found this website, dreams interested me. I only remembered having some scattered dreams in the past specifically, although they obviously were never lucid. Over the past week, I have had dreams night after night, and, realizing they were important, wrote them down in an agenda to remember them.
Just yesterday, I decided to learn more about dreams, and I found this website after using google. I realized that I have had lucid dreams before, although only twice. Those both occurred years earlier. Both times when I realized I was in a dream-like state, I tried to get out of each dream:
The first dream was because it was a nightmare, and I had to get out. Some kids in the form of FBI agents were after me, my life I believe. I was in some garbage dump. I suddenly realized that they were not real, but I believed I did not stand a chance against them, or the control to be the master of the situation, and wanted to avoid conflict. Gathering my will, my view was diverted to third person, and I shouted to the sky, "GOD, GET ME OUT OF THIS DREAM!" as my view of myself distanced. I woke up right afterwards.
For the other dream, the reason that I was attempting to force myself awake was because I knew I was in a car, sleeping in a chair, on my way to a soccer game, which was not too far away at that point. My dream body focused onto my seated body, as if I was trying to join with my physical body of real life. Also, since I could not talk and barely move my muscles, I knew I was dreaming. Mustering my will, I slowly lifted my right arm trying to make my right forefinger to touch my forehead. For some reason, I knew that process would wake myself up. After struggling for several minutes, I finally got my forefinger to touch my forehead, and I woke up.
I haven't had much success with lucid dreams since then. However, this website sparkles me with hope, now that I realized that it is possible to have lucid dreams more frequently. Yesterday, viewing this website, I saw that you have several dreams per night, 4-5 dreams for the average sleeper, and that you can keep track of them all, after much practice. So last night I practiced remembering the dreams, and had some success, and recorded it in my new Dream Journal:
4:00am - I woke up, realizing that I did have a dream. For some reason, the moment I woke up, I completely forgot what the dream was about, but I believed it to be about some old memories or thoughts.
6:30am - Much longer dream, but never entered lucid state. Arrived at house from somewhere. I went inside, found the dog, got him leashed for a quick walk to do his business, and took him downstairs in the basement for him to do his business. As he was about to mark the wall, I was like "Hey, what am I doing?" laughed at myself, then took him back upstairs, and out the front door. I took him out back, then examined the bird seeder on the porch. There was a dragonfly there. Suddenly, I took the third person view of the dragonfly, and entered an insect world, where I could keep on switching views of the insects. Yes, there was some predator versus prey scenarios, but avoided them by switching to different insects. I even stumbled across an ant labeled "Starting Insect", actually a few of them, and it seemed just normal.
I should have realized that by now, this was a dream, but there was this possibility in mind that I was just playing a video game, taking the view of an insect, and that there were "Starting Insect" non-player characters.
After taking view of a "Starting Insect," A worm attacked, and I took the view of the worm. It turned into a cocoon, and unable to peer away from the "supposed monitor that was not really there," I rapidly pressed the infered A button to hasten the hatching of the butterfly. Yes, soon after the butterfly hatched, and I took its view. It flew me back to the back porch, where the bird seeder was, and saw some strange Pokemon stations which I could not interpret. Guess what happened next? That's right, I became a Pokemon trainer :D. (Note that I gave up Pokemon a while back)
I somehow got inside again, and bought or gathered seven Dragonballs (look up the TV show Dragonball for more info) and brought them outside. Realizing I got a duplicate, I went in, grabbed the right one, and came back out. I realized my trainer (also note that I am viewing the trainer from the gameboy advance perspective) carried regular dragonballs, while the black star dragonballs (Dragonball GT) were organized on the ground. I realized there were more than seven black star dragonballs on the ground. I looked and noticed that there were trophies of Super-Saiyans with them. I laughed and said "Oh, silly me" and folloiwed by reorganizing them.
My dream ended there because my mom woke me up.
I now hope to encounter more unique dreams, hopefully lucid dreams, so that I can think more logically, which I normally do in real life anyways. My goal for tonight is to enter lucid state during one of the few dreams that I have. Now that is already asking for a lot with so little practice, but as one might say, always set the goal high for oneself to get the best effort. I know resign to bed, G'd night.
