Hello to all ! weird dream experience

**doodben** · 04-05-2013 04:30 PM

Hello everyone! I am new to the site but have always been a very active dreamer normally being able to recall one or two dreams a night. I have been writing extensively in my dream journal for only a few days but already can remember 4 dreams a night, some are very fuzzy but i am sure that will get better with time. As for the weird dream experience i had last night i will start off about mid way through the dream so i don’t have to explain every thing. It starts off with me driving a car, at this point I am not LD’ing just a normal dream, then i notice myself starting to nod off i try and keep myself awake but as I close my eyes for good i reawaken in my old chemistry classroom. At this point I immediately no that i am dreaming, I got quite excited because this is my first LD after starting my dream journal but then a sense of horror comes over me. I remember that i just fell asleep at the wheel of a car. For some reason i could not distinguish my original dream from reality. I thought i was going to die at any moment, gravity starts to sway back and and forth as if i knew that the car was swerving. It got so bad that i was walking on the walls at points. I figured if i didnt want to die I needed to wake up so i tried to will myself to wake up but it didnt work, held my breath, didnt work. I ran to the closest DC and punched him in the face hoping that when he hit me back i would awaken, but it didnt work. Then i choked him hoping that he would choke me and i would wake up, finally i woke back up in the car but cant remember anything past that. Has anyone had this type of experience before?

**Oceandrop** · 04-06-2013 08:57 AM

I never had something similiar, but it sounds like an awful interesting experience. Like a reverse false awakening, nodding off in a normal dream, become lucid in the next dream scene and thinking that the previous original non-lucid dreamscene was real! That would also have scared the crap out of me. But hey congrats on your first Luciddream after you started your dream journal!

**NyxCC** · 04-10-2013 05:37 PM

Congrats on the LD! Sorry it was not a very pleasant one. Sometimes Lds can turn out nasty, but you have to remember they depend a lot on our expectations and the emotions we project. In future LDs just try to be more positive and at ease, this has a great impact on the dream.

I am also including a link of something similar I have read from another person. A note of warning here, just because sometimes we have negative experiences, this does not mean we should expect terrible stuff to happen.

http://http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/wageofwar/nightmares-i-cant-wake-up-help-please-44963/

And here a link to Dream-Control-Tutorial

Wish you more pleasant lucid and non lucid dreams!

**doodben** · 04-10-2013 07:40 PM

Thank you both for the replies. This first lucid was quiet a bad experience but I defiantly did not take that to heart. I am a very up beat person so it didn’t really effect me to much. But last night i had what i would call my first true lucid, WOW! what an amazing experience. Started with a false awakening after I woke up from a previous dream. Woke up in my bed feeling really strange so i went to the bathroom and the light switch didn’t work, it just confirmed my thoughts. After that everything was brilliant, I dont know the normal length of an LD but this seemed to last for days,( literally ). Woke up before i could shoot lightning from my hands but i managed to start flying. I felt like a toddler learning how to walk, flying into trees and building. I hear it is unusual to convince a DC that they are part of a dream but i convinced a cop that he was a DC after i shot him and he didnt die. So we pretty much just drove around fucking shit up.HAHA! A truly amazing experience! I believe it was so vivid and long because i have been meditating three times a day and building what i like to call my dream sanctuary in my head. I meditate then once in a good state i go about creating my perfect sanctuary were i can eventually meet my DG. Thanks again for the replies !

**NyxCC** · 04-10-2013 08:10 PM

Good to hear that you are not taking the bad experience to heart and had such an amazing Ld! I wish you lots of lds like this! Meditation indeed helps, I have also noticed that after some meditation practice my LDs last much longer. Sweet dreams

**Scionox** · 04-10-2013 08:42 PM

Congrats on first lucid, and the second one too!

Dreams can be quite random at times, and memory from waking life don't always comes with lucidity. I would suggest writing/typing your goals right before going to sleep and/or using them as a mantra, that highly increases likelihood of recalling waking life memory.

I sometimes become lucid due to doing WILD in a dream, i guess that's similar experience, and quite confusing one considering i sometimes end up waking up twice in that case.

*Moved to Lucid Experiences*