Keep falling into lucid/not wanting to

[DMART]

Lucid dreams/obe have been exciting for me but sometimes like last night everytime I tried to fall asleep I kept realizing that I was making the transistion so I would experience this: The throbbing or gushing of the head and the clear loud noises, then feeling of falling or leaving the body and then the feeling of floating around. This is very intense so I end up waking up probaly minutes into this. While this is fine I find once I settle back down I fall into the same pattern again. My dreams of floating around differ each time. For example one time I am floating around the house, another I am floating around in space. While this is all cool I was doing this from 10pm untill 1am and I felt like I was not getting any real sleep. Does anyone else go through this at times and feel real tired the next day? If so what can I do to get back to normal sleep. It seems that at times I am too aware that I am falling alseep and entering a dream.

[MattReynolds]

Originally posted by DMART Lucid dreams/obe have been exciting for me but sometimes like last night everytime I tried to fall asleep I kept realizing that I was making the transistion so I would experience this: The throbbing or gushing of the head and the clear loud noises, then feeling of falling or leaving the body and then the feeling of floating around. This is very intense so I end up waking up probaly minutes into this. While this is fine I find once I settle back down I fall into the same pattern again. My dreams of floating around differ each time. For example one time I am floating around the house, another I am floating around in space. While this is all cool I was doing this from 10pm untill 1am and I felt like I was not getting any real sleep. Does anyone else go through this at times and feel real tired the next day? If so what can I do to get back to normal sleep. It seems that at times I am too aware that I am falling alseep and entering a dream. Just a nite/few nites of restlessness or insomnia? Too much coffee/chocolate etc? Happens to everyone, maybe it was just an off nite/nites. If it continues then you should become worried. lol Other then that im not really sure mate. Good luck.

[Yoshii]

That happened to me too but I wasn’t lucid. I found myself in the middle of a freakish nightmare. I kept waking up all anxious like I was having an attack or something. It was a bad night. I was stressed out from work and school. Now I turn on the fan or computer (with the monitor off) just so I can hear something to distract me. Something to focus on while I'm drifting off to sleep other than a million images in my head. As far as you being lucid, hmmmm. If it happens to you again, I say don’t fight it, let it happen, you might tap into something really off the wall here. Something cosmic –

[ignatz]

I used to do a lot of dream work and after years of it felt like I wasn't getting enough unconscious sleep. It actually took a lot of work (almost as much as achieving LD) to let go of lucid dreaming enough that I felt like I actually got some sleep. Part of it is consciously deciding to ignore dreams, both as they're happening as well as when you wake up. Perhaps you could simply go deeper into the floating dream and bring yourself back to earth.