Thread: The Thing That Got Me Going Again

Hello!

Thought I'd share with you an experience that got me re-interested in Lucid Dreaming, and what prompted me to join this forum as well.

A little bit of background information:
On the previous night I had decided on a whim to try out the "6hrs sleep/1hr awake/back to sleep"-technique that I had read about earlier but never actually DONE it. Lazy me. My intention was to meet with this strange "mentor"-figure that I had encountered several times in my dreams before this experience, and talk with it.

Keeping a dream journal is something I've had an on/off relationship for years now but the dreams in witch the "mentor" appeared were always so vivid and clear I was definetly on the "on"-phase again.


So here is the experience:





I woke up at 7 o'clock, stayed up for an hour and went back to bed. I relaxed myself, drifted into a half-dreaming state and soon I got the Vibrations. "Here we go," I'm thinking, and listen to the pleasant buzz in my ears. Suddenly I hear voices and realize i'm hearing dreams. I open my eyes and see my bedroom, clear as day - only there's a two-dimensional computer screen hologram hovering above me.

Words appear into it: "AUDIO PHASE COMPLETE...LOADING VISUAL PHASE..."

Suddenly, I'm hovering as an immaterial observer above a HYPERREAL (no better word for it) landscape, a serene countryside with rolling hills and small farmhouses. I realize I can control my movement and fly above this beautiful land. As I began to do so, I realize that the land is the mentor i'm looking for. I fly upwards in order to get a bird's eye view, but then something happens.

I get sucked upwards and upwards, all the way to the atmosphere and along the way I gain a sense of my dream-body. Because it is getting COLD. Some force sucks me out of the blue atmosphere into black space with no stars and it's COLD AS HELL.

In the darkness I see a green.... Blob...with "energy-tentecles" coming out of it. The tentacles reach for my head and I panic - the thing is entering my brains!! I begin to rip out the tentacles in fear but lose awareness...

***

I'm back to normal sleep. Two men ar performing a play for me in total darkness, dressed in renessaince clothing, speaking lines I can't remember anymore. I hear a sound to my left, turn around and see a wide stairway descending into an ocean. On top of the stairs is 10-15 brazilian showgirls. "Looks like another performance", I say to myself. The girls start to run down the stairs into the sea, and at the same time they transform into these awesome blue, shining woman-beings with two blue energy-tentacles coming from their sides and "connecting" them to heavens. As they hit the waves, the darkness is lifted away from above us like a blanket and i see a bright blue sky above the sea. Also, I realize this has got to be a dream (I mean 15 brazilian showgirls doing a private dance just for me? Too good to be true) and go Lucid.

I'm standing on the terrace of a huge mansion/villa that watches over an azure blue sea. Everything is hyperreal again. There seems to be a party going on here, lots of beautiful, succesful and young people. I wander in the crowd and descend away from the terrace into the villa, finding myself in the kitchen. There is a Tarot deck on the table. I pick up one card and suddenly a sense of dread floods over me. I turn around and before me is the face of a scary psycho, grinning at me. Something is coming out of its mouth, like a snake or a machine...

The monster leaps at me and I wrestle with it, Knowing that it wants to eat me alive.

***

I'm back walking in the marble stairway that leads to the terrace (how did I get out of the kitchen? Did I defeat the monster? Can't remember) when I see a woman sitting in the stairs. She seems "out of place", and not like the other party-goers here. I go and talk to her.

From a distance she looked like an attractive 25-30 year-old, but close up I see she's more like 60 or so. Standing face to face she looks even more "real" than before. She says her name is Olga and she speaks english with a strange accent. I tell her my name, and she asks how I spell it. I and try to talk more but there seems to be somekind of "noise" between us, like a bad phone line. The dream changes...

***

I'm under the mansion in a hallway that is lined by doors that lead to separate rooms. A door opens and I see my friend enter. I know it's not my friend but the same thing that attacked me in the kitchen, only in disguise. I grab him in a headlock and drag him to a room and start questioning him. "what the hell are you? Why are you pestering me? Are you just a figure in my dream?" But the thing only flashes his mad grin again and remains silent in my grip. "Okay. I'm in my own dream now, so I can do what I want to here, right?" I say out loud. There is a table next to us and i try to change it to a box to test my powers. It does not change. I concentrate and finally manage to change it to...another table. "Impressive", the thing finally speaks and I wake up.

***

I wake up living in a dreamlife where I live somewhere else and have another history. I have flashes of memories of past events that have never occurred as I walk in my dream-apartment. Suddenly I notice a TV above my bed and realize I'm dreaming...

And I wake up again, this time in my real bed. Everything is normal exept there is a strange object on the table. "Shit, I'm still dreaming", I realize again. One of my friends steps to the bedroom doorway. Exept it is not my friend, but the grinning Demon again. Now I get REALLY scared and close my eyes, trying to force myself awake....

...Only to find myself waking up and realizing im STILL DREAMING.

This process repeats itself for a long time. I wake up into a nother dream again and again, half aware of my sleeping body, trying to open my eyes and succeeding only to open my "dream- eyes" into yet another dream.

***

After some panicked thoughts I finally manage to wake up - for real this time. I'm shaking like a leaf, covered in sweat. I was a bit out of it for the whole day as you can imagine.... Still, it was the best dream I ever had.


What do you think?