
Originally Posted by
Jimmie
Hi I'm Jimmie.
Here's what happened:
I recently decided to have another go at trying to have a lucid dream or two and met with an unexpected result. I was using the MILD technique to attempt to induce a lucid dream 2 nights ago and it sort of worked but sort of didn't. I realized while I was sleeping that I was sleeping and that if I knew I was sleeping then I must also be dreaming but the weird thing is that I WASN'T dreaming. There were no images, no sound, no feeling. It was completely dark and I didn't even have a body to try spinning. I was just a consciousness in a dark abyss. I was confused because I hadn't planned for that eventuality. There was no body to spin, no hands to rub, there wasn't even an image to attempt to clarify. It lasted perhaps 20 seconds and then I lost the lucidity.
Has anyone else had this experience? I'm not sure exactly what happened but I think I may have in my overzealousness somehow awoken my conscious mind during NREM sleep. . . another possibility is that I managed to realize I was dreaming after the dream had faded and my mind was in the process of moving out of REM sleep.
Any thoughts at all?
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