Thread: Experiments in LD

Hi guys:

This would be my first post, so I hope you could help me and be patient if I don´t really know about the terms you use, but it´ll come with time.

This happened yesterday night, but it actually begun a couple of days ago. Visiting KickStarter I saw the Remee mask and begun investigating about lucid dreaming, as I had experienced it several times before. I looked for information for a couple of days until *zap*, lucid dreaming last night without any effort. Probably just my subconscious trying to please me. But anyway, this is what happened:

I was in the middle of a very narrow street, no one else there and no special details, just remember realizing: "God! I´m dreaming, how incredibly lucky... But this may end very soon, I have to run an experiment!" . I have lucid dreamed before, but probably because of my inexperience, all of them have been very short.

So the first thing I asked myself was of course: "Can I fly?" Answer: YES, but it's not that simple. I made a big "antigravity" jump that propulsed me several meters in the air, about 30 to 40 meters, but it was scary as hell and I had to control very carefully my fall not to loose control.

I've always had issues with gravity in my dreams, in fact, one of the things that makes me lucid the most is realizing that my jumps never end and make me advance in line just like a glitch in a video game, or that I can lift my feet a few centimeters and keep advancing just as if I was using rollers. But most of the time it happens by accident.

Following with the dream, I realized I didn´t like high altitudes, but a couple of meters from the ground was ok. I tested the "Superman" pose of flying and it worked perfectly.

So, second experiment: Can I get supersonic? Answer: NO . For my surprise, the faster I tried to fly, the more an incredible force pushed me back, keeping me from attaining high velocities. It was like trying to run in the water, I think a made no more than 40km/h. I was a bit frustrated so I tried a new method: At the end of the street, there was a big orange sign. I said: "If I can create atraction force between the sign and myself, maybe I can beat that force that doesn´t let me go faster." Did it work? A bit... I flew like Superman to the sign and achieved a considerably higher velocity than before, but the force was still there and the street ended on the sign, so I had to stop before crashing. That´s the las thing I remember.

Everything was very short, about 5 minutes in total, but I was amazed at the level of lucidity I had. Nothing like before. It´s a pity I can´t remember how I discovered I was dreaming, but I did at some point. If I had to compare trying to stay lucid in the dream, I could compare it to trying not to fall sleep at a very boring math class, your eyes get very heavy, you have to remember yourself what you are doing and even not to breath to strong so you don´t wake up.

Other experiences with lucid dreaming have to do with music. It usually happens during the first 5 minutes after I fall sleep, but I can create amazing music and even play the piano like a prodigy, being a fact that I don´t know anything about composing and I have never even touched a piano in my life.

"Infinite text" is also recurrent in my dreams, a simple word of 5 letters can be read for several minutes as the letters advance, the old ones disappear leaving space for the new ones. The text never makes sense, but it can be pronounced most of the time. Anyway, I try not to look infinite text for a long time, as in my experience, it becomes a bit "hypnotic" and can make you loose lucidity and even wake up.

Sorry for the long post guys, but I tried to give as much details as I could. Please share your thoughts about it.