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Normally it takes me awhile to fall asleep. A half hour, at least. Anyway, last night, about five minutes after getting into bed I felt this urge to look at my hands. I was 100% certain I was still awake but I looked at them anyway to find that my fingers were about ten inches long. It was such a shock to realize that I was dreaming that I awoke with a start. I mean I'd have bet my life that I was still awake, and yet . . .
A learning experience if ever there was one.
Nice, when you WILD like that it normally is a surprise to find you're actually Dreaming.
good luck for keeping it longer next time.
Congrats! :)
That's why we all do reality checks when waking up, false awakenings can be potentially amazingly exact with recreating the place where we fall asleep. :P
Right Checker. I'll never take anything for granted again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Checker666
I remember the only time that I actually got lucid because of a reality check (instead of realizing that I was probably dreaming and doing a reality check to confirm): it was one of my best lucid dreams back in the days when I was still good at them, I was in the kitchen in my dream, and saw something written, and thought "ok I guess I will reality check, but I am sure I am awake." To my utter shock the writing changed! I managed to stay dreaming though (this was not one of my first lucid dreams - my first few had been short and/or low low awareness), this one I managed to get pretty good awareness, and carried on an extenssive conversation about lucid dreaming with the dream character of my father, whom I informed that he was just a figment of my imagination, and he argued back. :)
This reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago, before I really knew what lucid dreaming was.
I was lying in my bed, trying to fall asleep, and all of a sudden a very bright, VERY vivid image of a meadow appeared before my eyes. It was actually pretty beautiful, and I felt very peaceful. It faded after a couple seconds, but the next thing I know... I'm back in my room. I don't remember waking up after the meadow faded, so I'm pretty sure I was still dreaming when I was suddenly back in my room. I don't even really remember falling asleep in the first place, so who knows how long I was dreaming.
Afterwards, I was completely amazed because I didn't know dreams could be THAT vivid, most of my dreams are hazy and unclear.