Very strange dream + Some Inception Themes

**Piotr21PL** · 09-08-2013 09:29 PM

First of all, i want to say hello to everyone on the forum

I read about LD and OoBE long time ago and i was extremly interested in it, but i was afraid of the sleep paralysis (which is a very important part of LD as they say) so i quitted but yesterday night i had a very strange experience, i don't know if it was a lucid dream or not, but maybe you can help me to figure this out.

First of all, before going to sleep i drunk some alkohol with friend. I don't know if it's important or not. So after i went to bed i felt asleep almost suddenly. The first part of the dream, was that i had 3 super hot girls to choose as my future girlfriend (awesome right?) so after i chosed the one i like i started to have sex with her (it was extremly realistic and i almost felt all the touch and other physical experience). I was alone at home at that moment (in the dream) but i knew that when my parrents come back i will need to "kill that bitch" so they won't know about her (sick, i know, and i used the word "bitch"). After that i suddenly appeared on the Oscars as a Leonardo Di Caprio and i were going to accept my award, i remeber that i needed to watch out on the stairs cause they were very high (and i even said to myself "gosh, these stairs are pretty high in this dream") - after that i felt something weird, like im awake again, but after like 10 seconds i was back there again. My hot gf was sitting near to me, so i kissed her before going on the stage.

Suddenly i appeared again in my home (something like the first phase of the dream), and i were sitting next to my computer and i heard my parrents close to me saying "how could you have sex with this girl?!" - it was very unpleasent to listen to them, so i suddenly woke up.

After waking up i felt very strange, i went to kitchen to drink some water, but i could feel that my legs were very heavy and it was hard to make steps. When i looked at my sister in her room she was sleeping but somehow i felt that she is watching me. I couldn't fall asleep later, cause i was too much excited.

So, what do you think, was it a full Lucid Dream? I couldn't just think like "oh, maybe i will do this or that" but still i had that feeling of "sandbox".

**JoannaB** · 09-09-2013 03:16 AM

Dzieńdobry, Piotr! Welcome to DreamViews!

First, I would like to correct a misconception: sleep paralysis is not a very important part of LD. In fact this is one of the most popular incorrect rumors that we have to battle here at DreamViews. So what is the truth? When you fall asleep, whenever you fall asleep, after you are already asleep, your body does get paralyzed. This is normal and necessary to protect you from sleep walking and acting out dreams and potentially hurting yourself. However, you become paralyzed after you fall asleep, and you stop being paralyzed when you wake up. Some people have a sleep disorder, where the timing is not right, and they stay paralyzed even after they wake up, but that is not normal, and if you had this issue you would know it. Lucid dreaming does not make this disorder any more likely. With lucid dreaming, just like with any other sleep, you most likely will not be aware that your physical body is paralyzed as it should be, and your dream body will be able to move. While it is possible for people who do not have this sleep disorder to experience sleep paralysis, this will happen at most a few times in a lifetime for most of us, and is not any more likely due to lucid dreaming.

People who claim that sleep paralysis is a part of lucid dreaming, usually confuse the hypnagogic hallucinations with sleep paralysis. Hypnagogia is stuff you experience if you fall asleep while remaining aware, and as you are falling asleep, you may feel a bit of numbness and maybe some vibrations, and see some images or hear something, in the state in between awake and asleep. However, since you will not be paralyzed at that point yet, if it bothers you, you can move, and wake yourself up. However, unless you are afraid of see experiences and expect them to be unpleasant (expectations cause results), Hypnagogia are much more likely to be interesting and pleasant. Personally I greatly enjoy hypnagogic experiences and have never had a scary one. Now, you will likely notice some hypnagogia during wake initiated lucid dreaming (WILD), but not all LDs are WILD, and if you would rather try dream initiated lucid dreaming (DILD) then you will not notice hypnagogia.

In answer to your question whether your dream was lucid, I have a question for you: were you aware that it was a dream while you were experiencing the dream? that is what makes a dream lucid. I did not notice you mentioning that you knew that it was a dream. But if you knew, then yes, and if not, then it was not.

All the best!

**Piotr21PL** · 09-09-2013 04:14 PM

Wow, that was like the best explanation ever. Now i understand fully what is it about. At least i won't be afraid practising LD. Thank you very much.

I didn't have this moment of realization "wow, i am dreaming" and that i could do anything i wanted, but somehow i knew that "i don't want to wake up cause it's so fun". That's why i'm not sure anymore.