Thread: *VERY STRANGE LD Experience **split consciousness???**

In my last LD two nights ago, something very unusual happened. I was having a normal dream when a dream sign happened, and made me become lucid. The very SECOND I become lucid, my eyes open in WL... but instead of the LD ending, it kept on going.

There is no real way to explain what exactly I experienced... almost another dimension sort of thing, but suddenly I find myself both completely aware of WL, and the LD at the same time. It's almost like the two images are overlapped, but they're not. I'm getting full sensory from both WL and the LD. Basically, it was like my consciousness was split.

The only odd thing in the LD and in WL was that in both I had slight sleep paralysis. I wanted to stay in the dream, so after a while of experimenting with the whole doing whatever I want in WL while also doing whatever I want in the LD, I decided I didn't want to chance losing the LD, and I just ended up laying in bed doing nothing anyways, while still doing stuff in the LD.

The LD ended up lasting about a half hour before I slipped out, and became awake... or so I thought. I ended up spending another half hour having 6 false awakenings.

The whole experience was rather strange, to say the least.

Has anyone ever had something similar happen to them? If not, in your next LD consider asking the dream to split your consciousness... see what happens.

Well I had a lucid dream where I blinked and my left eye was open looking at my bedroom(in waking life), and my right eye was still inside the dream looking around.....it was a weird feeling but then I blinked again and I was back in the dream.....it felt quite strange looking around in two different realities.....

well I am not sure at all and I have never had one myself, but have you considered this might have been some kind of an OBE, or some sort of an OBE transition state ?

I've been reading alot about OBE's thats probably why my mind jumped to this when I read your post.

It definitely was not an "OBE". The OP says nothing about feeling that they were out of their body.

What is described here is a pretty common occurrence during SP/transitional states between waking and dreaming. You can retain consciousness of your WL surroundings during a lucid dream. When I used to share a dorm room with 3 other girls, I used to be interrupted quite often during naps when I was LDing. I would open my eyes and look around the room while still taking part in the lucid dream. It's definitely strange the first time it happens, but you'll realize that it is actually pretty common.

If you've ever seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, they do a good job of illustrating this. When he is laying in bed and at the same time having a dream talking to Clementine, then tries to open his WL eyes, and finds out that it really works.

i think the term your after is called dual consciousness

This happens to me in everyone of my lucid dreams. I think it's because when I sleep I rarely sleep with my eyes closed (I know it's odd but, it's some sort of condition). So whenever I close my lucid eyes my waking eyes open and I get that strange sense of dual consciousness that you were talking about. I remember the first time this happened I just smiled giggled a little bit, and went back into my dream. xD

I wouldnt call this split / dual consciousness. We are capable of getting information (visual/verbal or what so ever) from more than one sense/source. Consider this: you can look at the wall (for example) and see a pink elephant in your imagination. There is only one consciousness that perceives this.
My experience was little different (this happend few times to me). I was having an LD and still being aware of my phisicall body - and also at the same time my dream body. Feels kida strange - having two bodies at the same time. I know whats my possition in my bed, how im breathing etc. Still the dream continues normally.

I'm pretty sure I know what you mean. This has happening to me a lot lately. I haven't been around Dreamviews for a while but I've been experiencing this the past few weeks. This hasn't happened to me while lucid though. Basically when I wake up from my alarm going off I hit snooze and lay back in bed. Since I'm always really tired in the morning I fall half asleep and I start to dream but I know I'm still awake at the same time. I've lost pretty much all of my skill in remembering my dreams and getting lucid and everything. It's actually quite depressing. That's why I decided to come back here and get involved with the community again and hopefully stick with my lucid dream practicing.

How cool. my first LD in a year , last week was just that ......I woke up, aware of my bed but the LD vision was still quite clear...even though I knew I was no longer asleep..... a tad startling though.... to know youre not asleep yet remaining fully aware of the other reality.... has happened before , but only rarely.
However I WAS taught t do psychic-clairvoyant readings with eyes open.... so why not dreaming as well

I had a dream with my eyes open this morning, it wasn't lucid though. It made the whole thing very confusing. >.> But I was definitely getting input from both, but it was also blurry in both because the dream wasn't very vivid. I also fully understand the sensation of getting complete vivid input from two sources at once because one time in a powerful mushroom trip in my dorm room I was able to see both my room completely unchanged in any way and a totally unrecognizable alien world at the same time - both completely covered my vision, but somehow not each other. It was an incredibly weird feeling.

I just woke up from a dream with dual consciousness aswell. It's due to the dream being unstable, which sucks. Try some stabilisation next time