Thread: Last night

This is my first post here, I felt I had to share my experiences with other people who've also had them.

When I was younger (around 17-18, I'm 24 now), I had my first lucid dreams. I didn't know what they were at the time, I just thought they were really cool! I had like three of them, and then one more this spring. And again last night, that is.

I was in a forrest with some people, don't remember who. I don't know quite what we were doing there, but there was a river bank next to the woods, and we'd been out on a boat just previous, so I think we might have been fishing or something. Atleast, all of a sudden there's a dog/lion kinda creature next to us all, quite friendly. When it walks away I see that it has a human face! I suddenly think to myself that this has to be a dream, so I do the classical thing; pinch my arm. The first time, it DOES hurt a bit (even in dreams, how are you supposed to know then?!), but I'm so convinced of it all being a dream and I go for it again... And of course it didn't hurt. I can feel that my physical body is far away, so I know this lucid dream's gonna be successful.

So, I tell my friend that I'm only dreaming, and that I'm off to somewhere. I remember from being younger that it's really fun flying, so I go for it again! And it's easy as anything in the real world, and it feels so f-ing real!! I'm a bit scared (although I know I'm in a dream), so I don't wanna go too high, but I go fairly high. Usually when flying in my dreams (I only fly in my lucid ones, cause I kinda realize that you can't when you're in the "real world", duh...), I fly in an upright position, e.g. "standing" with my arms out on my sides. I can feel the air lingering between my fingers, and i tilt my hand to steer and keep my balance. This time I wanna try something different though, so I lean fwd and concentrate to go faster, and I'm off like a rocket! Now I'm in "superman position", ducking branches and electrical posts, when I suddenly find myself out above a large field. It's gone like a minut or so.

For some reason, I want to "try" if I'm dreaming, so I decide to dive really fast towards the ground like when falling (I always wake up then cause I love-hate the feeling. It's fun, like bungy jumping, but a bit uncomfortable still...), and of course I wake up. Right before I hit ground/wake up, I see my shadow closing in on me, like it would've if falling towards the ground for real.

It's all so real, I love these dreams!

I'm a bit disappointed that I had to "test" wether I was really dreaming or not, how stupid is that?! A part of me is a bit scared, so I guess I'm reluctant to being in the dreams for too long. Maybe I'm scared of what I'll do in those dreams, maybe I put myself in wierd places or create things I don't want to... Obsessive thoughts, you know. Yet, I haven't really tried doing much stuff in my LD's, but I've promised myself I will experiment more with things like time-stopping, meeting people and creating scenery. It seems to come easy for me, so I should really use the chances I get.