First Three Lucid Dreams (three week timespan)

Wow, so I've been slacking off on posting in here for a while, but I'm glad to be able to post all three of these dreams at once.

First:

My first was after sleeping for over ten hours. I woke up, and began reading the seventh Harry Potter book (a day after it came out). I'd been reading for about an hour, and all of a sudden had a RIDICULOUS urge to sleep. I put down the book, and laid my head down. Almost immediately, I fell into a exercise room in which yoga was being done. I wasn't participating, only watching. Strangely, I was the only male in the room, and everyone was doing yoga topless (I know.) All of a sudden, I know I was dreaming. I chanted it to myself over and over, and looked at my hand, which looked completely normal, actually. The world was extremely blurry in a familiar way, and all of a sudden I realized that only my left eye was open.

(In real life, my left eye has a retinal fold that make vision blurry but discernible. I can see everything going on, but everything lacks detail. It looked exactly the same in my dream. I've also always had reason to believe that my left eye was a channel to psychic sight (hate to bring my beliefs into this, but it's necessary.))

Anyhow, I looked at myself in the window of a building, and began to dance. For some reason, I remembered reading somewhere about dancing while floating in the air. I slowly began floating until I was dancing on a cushion of air at least two feet above the ground. I then landed and began to slowly flap my arms. I rose into the air slowly and calmly. However, I felt extremely sluggish and weighed down. I started to worry that what I was feeling was my hands moving on the bend in real life, and at that point, I woke up.

Second:

My second was after a fairly late night in which I deliriously told myself I'd have a lucid dream, with no real intention behind it. I rested for a while with no sleep, and am fairly sure I didn't have the lucid until the third or fourth dream of the night. Anyhow, I was eating at the Rainforest Cafe with my family, and we were there for about half an hour. The whole time I seemed to realize I was dreaming, but didn't embrace it until a bit later in the dream. Well, I decided to leave, and go back to my house in San Francisco (I live in Texas now.). I didn't feel the need to look at my hand, but I said to myself that I should always take advantage of lucid dreams, and fly at least a little bit in each of them. I began running forward, flapping and flailing my arms maniacally. Nothing happened, and I realized I was putting too much physical effort into it. I slowly, calmly waved my arms, and they felt as if pillows of air were forming under my arms as I slowly glided forward over the dining table. It felt extremely real. I woke up moments later.

Third:

About five days ago I had my third lucid dream. I was simply walking through a sandy desert, with an obscure canvas tent nearby. I immediately knew I was dreaming, so I repeated to myself, lucid dream, lucid dream, lucid dream, over and over. I stopped, felt myself slipping out of lucidity, and looked at my hand. Once again, it looked completely normal other than the blur and unclarity of my left eye. I was worried that maybe I can only LD with my right eye closed. However, I decided I needed to find out for certain. I opened my right eye, and it was amazing. All detail had come back to the world, everything was more clear and real than it seems in real life. I looked at my hand and I could see every line and wrinkle as all five fingers shrunk into little stubs 1/3rd of the size. I simply marveled at the extraordinary feeling of seeing so clear and having such a reality while out of my body. It was short lived, however, as after about ten seconds of this amazing clarity, an obstruction became apparent. My right eyelid was slowly forcing itself shut, and once again my vision started to fade into the surreal blur I experience so often. I grabbed my eyelids and wrenched them open, forgetting the advice once given around these forums that said to only do that if you want to wake up. I could once again see very clearly, but the eye closed once again, very quickly. I attempted to wrench them open once again, but a very monumental, memorable thing occurred at that moment. As my eye in the dream opened, my eyes in waking life opened with it. As it opened, I saw my dream eyelids overlapping my real eyelids, and once they were entirely open, the dream eyelids had faded.

I'm really glad I've had so many amazing lucid dreams in such a short period of time. Now all I have to do is make sense of the whole left eye thing, as the clarity I had with my right eye was what made it. Perhaps I should try to will my left eye to see with such reality. Everything else is being manifested by myself, after all.

I'd also like to take a moment to thank all of you on these boards. Merely reading these posts every day, and being inspired to keep a dream journal, as well as attempting various LD methods every once in a while...I really think that's what allowed my to come to this place. I no longer use specific methods, only intentions, but that seems enough, for the time being.

Thanks,

Michael

Michael, thanks so much for sharing your lucid dreams!

It's really interesting about your eyes! I wear glasses/contacts in real life but my vision is perfect when I LD.. well there was the following time and I ended up "wrenching" my eyes open as well:

I went to the couch about 3am to try to WILD. I lay on my back for what seemed like forever until I finally decided that it just wasn't gonna happen. I then rolled on my side but still kept repeating to myself, "Am I dreaming?".

For some reason I get up and walk back to my bedroom and lay down on the floor.:huh: My husband comes in from the living room, steps over me asking me what I'm doing on the floor. I get ready to answer him when it dawns on me that I wouldn't sleep on the floor! I was having a false awakening and I'm still asleep!

I get up and head out the door. It still felt as though the sheet was covering one of my eyes. I tried to push it off but I couldn't get my eye clear. In desperation I pushed my eyes open between my thumbs and forefingers and it seemed to work.. things became clear and bright.

I also thought this was very cool: "As my eye in the dream opened, my eyes in waking life opened with it. As it opened, I saw my dream eyelids overlapping my real eyelids, and once they were entirely open, the dream eyelids had faded." You were actually in both worlds there for a second!

I also agree that the next time you are lucid that you will your left eye to see as clearly as the right! Like you stated "Everything else is being manifested by myself, after all."

I'm so glad the forum helps you.. that's why we're here! :D
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Wow, so what do you know? I just had my fourth lucid dream this morning, and it answered my left eye question.

Someone was having me try out dealing , and gave me several bags to sell. I was walking down a busy street with a few of the group members, looking for someone who'd buy. However, I was trying way too hard to walk coolly and calmly, and a group of people looked at me, and said to each other, man, he got some. Let's go! They start chasing us down the market street, and finally, when we think we lost them, they show up. Before they do anything, I say to them, alright, let's do this. I'm calling up the rule of race. So we race back to the spot where they had been sitting, and I reach it before they do. They leave us alone after that, and we go to hang out in a billiards club. After a while of playing some pool, we sit down and talk about the day. The dealer Nancy goes to in the show Weeds is there, and she challenges me to another race. We race, and she wins. She holds out her hand to take my provisions, and I punch her in the stomach. My friend takes it from me, gives it to her, and she indignantly takes out a big brownie-pie. She places it on the table, and we all sit down, and begin eating. I instantly know what kind of brownies they are. (yeah.) Suddenly she asks me what time it is. I look at my watch, and say, it's 10:28, according to Michael _________, the lucid dreamer. I start to laugh as I realize what I just said. I then look at my hand, and once again, it's in painstaking detail and clarity. I then look at my sister who seemed to appear out of nowhere, and she looks very life-like, given a little bit of shape distortion. I smile as I realize I have both eyes open, then close my right eye for a bit, to see the blurriness once again. I open my eyes, and begin explaining to the DCs that I'm having a lucid dream, and that by telling them I'll remember better. They offer no objection, it's as if I'm telling a dream to someone in real life after waking.

I then woke up and write it in my dream journal. Amazing.