I am amazed, completely blown away by what I experienced. I want to know if anyone has experienced this, and I want to know why I had this experience.. I found this site thank god and hope that someone may relate or have some of their own insight

It started as a normal lucid dream. Wake up and realize what I am experiencing is a dream, know that if I get too excited I will wake up so I try to prolong the experience. I notice that for the first time I can actually see my hands, which was pretty cool because that hasn't happened before. I notice the absurdities of what I am dreaming about and find it amusing. I woke up several times because the experience was so intense, so real and vivid, and I can only describe it as excitement with some form of fear. Every time I woke up I noticed only five to ten minutes had passed, when the dreams felt like at least 30 minutes to an hour long. At this point I had about 10 or so lucid dreams between awakening and could now wake up at my own will. What happened next was a life changing experience, something I will never forget. I went from lucid dreaming in familiar and predictable environments stored in my subconscious to a completely unfamiliar and unearthly environment.

This is what happened: While in the dream my "body" started vibrating and I began blacking out, or more like a white out, and I thought that I had gotten too excited and was waking up again. Except I woke up in a forest at night, and looked up in the sky and saw the most beautiful constellation. It was at least five stars, very large and very bright with beautiful colors. I was not on earth, and if it was just a dream that alone is proof we have a universe unexplored within our own minds. I was looking at the Pleiades star cluster from what I think was a nearby planet. I remember that my heart was so full of joy, mesmerized and grateful that I was being shown this amazing sight. If I could paint a picture, or convey to you what I saw.. God I wish I could do that but it's impossible. I remember trying to take a mental picture of it and couldn't wait to tell to my girlfriend what I had seen.. at this point the excitement grew to the point where I was almost fearful and overwhelmed. Before I was completely overwhelmed by this beauty I began to vibrate intensely and felt like I was being ripped out of my body, and I was back in my normal dream state. It took me a few moments to realize that I was still in a dream, the same environment that I was in before, which I am assuming was somewhere in my subconscious.. I then awoke and was amazed by the magnitude of emotion that I had felt and the extraordinary vividness of my dream. I thought about it all day at work and I'm pretty stoked to have found this site so I can share it with you all.

I would like to add something I have experienced, while I was completely awake and conscious. I had an encounter with an orb-like lime green light that moved like a hummingbird. It literally slipped in and out of reality. They were so bright that they left tracers in my eye like the flash of a camera. After realizing what I was seeing, I felt the same kind of fear that I felt in my lucid dream and had to turn away from it because it was so overwhelmingly beautiful. This was in Arizona and I have seen similar sightings in New Mexico and western Texas, though not as drastic as that one. My dreams got increasingly strange during those times and though I haven't seen anything like that for almost a year, I have been lucid dreaming more than ever and these experiences are changing my entire view on reality.

I feel like lucid dreaming is only the beginning phase of some kind of .. something. I honestly don't know. And I'm craving answers. Could these flashes or glimpses of star systems in lucid dreams be forms of some kind of communication? From something or someone, inter or extra dimensional/terrestrial? It was like 'they' or something interrupted my pointless dream-play to say "Okay, so you can lucid dream, now what are you going to do with it?" I am hoping to get some people's experiences, thoughts and feedback on what this might mean