Thread: semi lucid?

Twice I’ve had dreams where I felt like I had some control but at the time thought nothing much of it. Yesterday I was browsing around and I found this website and had a bit of a read and realised what I had actually experienced. I often remember my dreams quite easily so I thought I would try things out.

So during the day I practiced reality checking and when I went to bed about 1am I told myself I was going to remember my dreams when I woke up. I woke up again at about 5:30am Initially my mind was totally blank then it came to me.

The dream starts to change from what I was dreaming about before to a narrator telling me (the voice sounds familiar) that a friend of mine has died of a terminal illness. For some reason I am quite young and in the kitchen of the house I grew up in. I think about my friend for a moment and say “what there’s nothing wrong with him?” The narrator tells me “don’t you remember?” He sounds kind of annoyed the sort of way adults sound when they are annoyed with children being stupid. I gain the memory of someone telling me about my friend being terminal. I think it doesn’t seem right that I would forget something like that. I go out into the back garden and there is a heap of stuff I pick a sign off the pile the top 2/3rds are covered with pictures I can’t understand and the bottom has some sentence written in my handwriting on it that makes no sense, at the end it says “by Phil” (that’s my name incidentally). I get the feeling the sentence means something like “be quiet” or “shut up” either the narrator or myself says “This is from when I made that film that time” But then I disagree with that thinking that I never made a film and that the writing doesn’t say what I think it should. I try to read the writing and I can’t seem to work out what it says the best I can work out is that two of the words start with ‘S’. I get more confused trying to work out why I can’t read it. I try to read it again and again then I wake up.

I went back to sleep an hour later and had another dream but nothing interesting happened :-D

So is this a good start to getting towards full lucid dreams? It felt different to when I had a bit of control; before I just realised I was dreaming this time I felt that there was a wrongness about what was happening that something wasn’t quite right and the dream wasn’t happy about me questioning it so much :-)

Thanks for reading such a long post!