Hey all. I'm new here and I think this website is really interesting and I had no idea there was such a big lucid dreaming community. I've known about lucid dreaming for a while (friends told me about it) saw the movie "Waking Life" etc. But I never really looked into until a few days ago. I just think its something so amazing I would be a fool not to have such an experience or mind state in my life.

Anyways I've been looking at methods, practicing RC's here and there, and writing down dreams here and there as well. I noticed that when I try to tell myself "I'm dreaming" (chanting) or affirmative thought or whatever it seems to keep me awake or any thought that I create consciously keeps me awake. So I decided Ill just let things flow naturally and its really hard not to interrupt with my conscious. Anyways I started letting things flow and I can't remember if I passed out or was just watching my thoughts when all of a sudden it felt like my eyes were rolling to the back of my head, everything was white but it felt good and I focused on that and all off a sudden I felt like a crazy vibration (like that of a massage chair) going from my legs all the way to the top of my scalp and when the vibrating got to my scalp and I think I started focusing on it too much along with picturing a guy with a knife standing over my bed causing some fear (from reading scary SP hallucinations) so I didnt want to turn over (I experience this on my stomach). After that I just opened my eyes because I think i ruined it.

So I'm not sure if it was SP or I just created all that or what not. If it was SP am I supposed to just let it flow and then I just enter a LD? I feel like I only got to that point because I concentrated on it when I caught myself falling asleep but I read youre supposed to just let it flow.

All I know is the mind is crazy thing! and I know very little about mine haha. Can anyone tell me if that was SP or have any advice.