Thread: Lucid Dreams

I'm new here and wanted to share some things and techniques I've found relatively useful while lucid dreaming. The dreams I have are utterly amazing and the thoughts that go through my head and my state of awareness in dreams is very extensive.

First to give a little background about myself and lucid dreaming, I've been having sporadic lucid dreams since I was young... maybe one or two a year, and they were usually flying / levitation type dreams. When I first got to college I had what was the most vivid lucid dream I've ever had. Didn't really think much about it, and didn't particularly want to talk about it with my friends because I didn't think they would understand.

It's been in the past year where I starting learning new techniques for lucid dream induction and being able to determine when I'm sleeping / dreaming. I'll regularly have multiple lucid dreams in a night now, and it's getting to the point where I wanted to share with others that are experiencing the the same thing.

Take today for example. I took an afternoon nap and usually these are the easiest to find dream signs and become lucid. Well this was probably the longest most intense LD I've ever had. It was so ridiculously real, that I don't think I could have told the difference If I were awake. The dream started with me knowing I was in bed, and getting up and going about my business. Throughout the dream I was actually trying to show other dream characters how to become lucid themselves. It was very interesting.

The lucidity of this dream was so solid that I used it as a personal experiment to see what I am capable of in the dreamworld. I actually woke myself up from the dreams several times intentionally, and tried to go back into the same dreamscape and sustain lucidity. I was always able to sustain lucidity, but 1 of the 3 times I tried it, the dreamscape changed. The time the dreamscape changed I spun around in the dream and was able to return to the original dreamscape again. I was surprised at how easy it was.

I then thought about finding a mirror and looking into it because I wanted to see what my dream body looked like. I have done this several times before in other LDs by looking at something reflective, and each time, I looked identical. I looked exactly like myself, however my eyes are different. Each time my eye color is hazy, and yellowish in color. It's actually kind of scary because the dreams are so real that I don't look into mirrors anymore unless I feel up to it because i don't want to see myself like that.

I had the opportunity to try and become secondarily lucid within my LD. I literally went to bed in my LD and tried to induce another LD. This was a very confusing thing to try to do because I don't think I was able to try and induce another level of sleep or mimic anything that could resembled dreaming within a dream. What actually happened is I spawned another dreambody which I had control of and was identical to my dreambody, clothing and all. In order to do this, I just retraced my steps in becoming lucid in the first place. The process of getting up out of bed. At this point, I was thinking too hard about this, and started to lose lucidity. I did the typical 360 spin and ended up in another room in my dream apartment. I then continued on with the dream.

This dream was so sustained and intense that I started to wonder (while lucid) if i was actually getting sleep. I was so conscious in the dream that I was worried that my nap would have been pointless in catching up on sleep because I was so busy in my lucid state and it had gone on for at least an hour. A total of 3 times I had to spin in order to sustain the lucidity over that hour timeframe. Has anyone had any thoughts on this? I woke up feeling like I certainly did get sleep, but my mind felt a little exhausted.