Thread: 5th lucid dream! Terrifying night mares/sleep paralysis/false awakenings!

I haven't posted in ages, as I got really lazy with my dream journal blah blah. Anyway, out of the blue, last night I had a lucid dream. Before I go into that though I'll explain the rest.

I went to bed last night and a fell into some kind of terrifying sleep paralysis and false awakening night mare thing! I guess I knew I was dreaming because I kept counting my fingers and they were weird (a technique for me). The nightmare part was the fact that I thought there were things in the darkness of my room cackling and laughing horribly, and then something grabbing my head with a claw like hand, it seriously felt as real as reality.

I think I would wake up when I counted my fingers and go into my lounge room having an anxiety attack or shock symptoms (something I've never experience), only to count my fingers and realise that I was still dreaming! This happened over and over.

It's hard to explain this sort of stuff as the details weren't so clear. I sort of felt awake, conscious I was dreaming but also knowing I was in full blown sleep paralysis and I couldn't move my body, then, when I could it only lead to the realisation it was a false awakening.

I'm not sure the exact mechanism that lead me to calm down, in fact I don't even know if I had a true awakening. At some point though, I realised my lucidity (through the finger count) and became comfortable in the dream. And now the fun begins!

I think I immediatly started firing lightning for my finger tips to shock and kill whatever had been bothering me. I remember that it was seemingly female (the witch like cackle and the clawed hand head grab seems like the inspiration for that). In most of my LD's I shoot lightning.

I also tried flying (getting better), fire bending (I suck at it ), and water bending (first time and I was pretty good!). I'll cover these in other threads.

Anyway, after this dream I might start trying again, reality checks, journal etc.

I will admit, with only 5 LD's under my belt there's still a lot to learn, my dream scapes I feel could be clearer, my control over the environment could be better (it sort of fills itself out, but I don't really know how to consciously manipulate/change it, I'm focussed on the stuff that I can do (bending).

Thanks for reading, probably isn't the clearest read, but the whole night was pretty messed up :S