A weird lucid experience

**Kruse** · 11-29-2012 10:46 AM

Hello everyone!

So, just tonight I started using a MILD technique and combining it with WBTB, and it seemed to have immediate effect. I'd went to bed at about midnight and I slept until 4:26. I didn't try to force myself to wake up at this time, rather I had actually set my alarm clock so that I would not have to remind myself to wake up in order to get a good nights sleep. However, I decided to close my eyes for about 4 minutes and woke up to my alarm clock again. When I woke up to the alarm I didn't feel sleepy at all, so, still laying down, I decided to try and visualize a bit and go through a mantra. As I came closer to becoming sleepy I told myself "This is a dream" in the hopes it would carry over to my dreams. Next thing I know, I wake up in my bed, however, it's in the middle of the living room where my TV is. Weird thing is though, I am not alone, and strangely enough I didn't wake up myself. I woke up because I had this DC, a rather pretty looking girl wake me up. She said "Wake up, WE'RE dreaming", not "You're dreaming". Noticing where I was I was immediately certain that I was dreaming and I tried to stabilize the dream. I don't remember if the girl said "we're dreaming" in English or my native language so I wasn't sure what language I was dreaming in. I do however mostly dream in my native language, but demanding clarity didn't work. So I had a look at my fingers, more specifically on my right hand. I could see that it definately wasn't right and I could even study some details of the hand but it did absolutely nothing to stabilize my dream, and since I'd wasted valuable time trying to demand clarity the dream just faded into nothing. This is the most "realistic" of the two lucid's I've had but it's also the shortest. When I checked my fingers I could feel my arm being heavy as if I had slept on it or something similar.

Has anyone else had a dream character "wake you up" and telling you that you were dreaming? It felt weird but awesome at the same time, I am just sad it ended so fast. Also, what other stabilization techniques are good if you are not able to spin or rub your hands together and the one's I tried don't work?

**Oceandrop** · 11-29-2012 12:18 PM

Awesome experience! Congrats to your fast success with the MILD and WBTB technique

If you have problems to stabilize a dream or get it more vivid, what often helps me is concentrating/using the senses for interact with the dream environment, like Touching something, try to scent something or concentrating on hearing sounds, ofc. not focusing all too long on just one. Other stabilize techniques I heard from are spinning around yourself, but what can also end with the dream scene changing or just saying out loud that you want the dream stabilized with really wishing it.
I can't clearly remember if ever a DC reminded me off that it is all a dream, but I heard similiar stories so I am sure you're not alone with this one.