3 Brief LD experiences

**fantasyotter** · 05-03-2011 02:42 AM

New member, newly attempting to attain lucidity in my dreams.

My first lucid experience I was dreaming and became lucid by realizing that things around me were a dream. Suddenly everything came into sharper focus and became much more vivid. It lasted only briefly before I lost lucidity.

The second time a similar experience happened except this time I tried having more control of what was going on. It seemed to only last a few seconds before the dream faded and I woke up.

The third time was the most unique time as it happened with a dream within a dream. It was during an extended nap and I had been dreaming for a while. The dream took me to my dorm room during a FA and I was with friends. We took pills so we could have a lucid shared dream experience together. I feel asleep in this dream and began a dream inside a dream in which I became lucid. I could make things disappear in this dream by focusing really hard, could make things levitate, and could also grab things without actually touching them - like telekinesis. This all took a lot of focus and energy to do though. I then woke back up into the first dream and talked about the experience with my friends. Then I actually woke up.

EDIT: I became lucid in the third dream because when immediately entering the dream after taking the pill I was under water and couldn't tell up from down. I was about to drown and just as I took a breath my lungs were filled with air not water. Then I knew I was dreaming and stood up in a pond with my friends who had taken the pills with me.

The thing I'm confused about with the last experience is whether or not it actually counts as a lucid experience as I was dreaming about dreaming that I was lucid.

**Playlaughdream** · 05-03-2011 06:13 PM

What counts is the fact that you were aware you were dreaming doesn t matter which dream stage you were in. As in the movie inception most of us can t be 100% aware of all experiences and we may need totems, tools or tests to help define what is waking reality and what is a dream. Maybe in the end we will find out that there isn t a reality reference but a continuum of different forms of awareness experiences.

**fantasyotter** · 05-04-2011 04:48 AM

I'm not sure at all about the Inception reference. I don't think that totems and things have much to do with the real world and the way dreams actually work. I just wasn't sure about my lucidity in the third dream because it felt like i was just dreaming I was lucid. I guess it makes sense though that if at any point I was aware I was dreaming it must have been a lucid experience.

**Playlaughdream** · 05-04-2011 02:48 PM

When I said reality reference I meant most of us need to remember to reality check. If we don´t, we go distractedly from dream to dream and we can even experience false awakenings that we swore were real until we definitely wake up and maybe more experienced lucid dreamers can go through many dream stages and back to waking life in a natural way without having to check anything.