Batteling deamons, seeing world in 2d and talking to skulls.

[DeliriousDonkey]

Hi, I just joined... been thinking about it for a while now, and it seemed like fun. I'm kind of a mystic in many ways, constantly trying to figure out different ways to perceive the world, so I meditate and lucid dream every now and then. I'm a natural... well, not in the sense that I actually lucid dream often, just in the sense that my first times(which were EXTREMELY lucid) were before I heard of the phenomenon. Now, I'll update this thread with some of my actual lucid experiences and magic moves within lucid dreams(such as making the world into 2-D and 3-D cartoons,) but I thought I'd start out with one of the weirdest experiences when it comes to meditation. One day while meditating, I decided to summon a spirit. I thought aloud: demon spirit, come to me. As I meditated with my mouth open, it became dryer and dryer, and I opened it more and more until it stared feeling like some sort of shapeless thing was entering. I let it surge into me, until suddenly I was sucked into a black hole of existence... My spirit/dream-body was surrounded by darkness. Of course, worried that I had ACTUALLY just let a spirit take over my body(of course I don't actually believe that, but still, it worried me,) I regained control of my body.. I woke up in the same position that I had sat in all along. Was this self-hypnosis? Was this actual magic? Don't know, don't care... perhaps they're all the same thing.. It was fun anywho.. I'll update later with the story of how I had to battle demons with a sword made of flames. Anyways, please feel free to comment and come with similar stories. I apologize for not having posted an actual LD story, but I'll keep em coming. Edit: OMG... my english grammar has gone straight to hell.. batteling deamons? wtf?

[Tarsier]

There's a demon inside you now.

[DeliriousDonkey]

1. An alien encounter(sleep paralysis/vivid dreaming?) I had gone and truly gotten drunk for the first time in my life. I went home and decided I’d watch an episode of Buffy before I went to bed. As I was lying there, dreaming, I noticed voices in my head. It’s hard to recall what they were saying. They were whispering. Suddenly I woke up. Someone was strangling me. It was a transparent being without many features, silver like and also with a blank, smooth face. I struggled and I struggled. Finally I broke free. I woke up. Some weird object was flying in front of my face. It was a small, hockey-puck-like thing with a white sphere shaped thing coming out of it. It flew in to my mouth. I woke up. This time I was truly awake. These events still makes little sense to me. Are they real? Was I orally probed? Probably not. This was hallucinations induced by sleep paralysis. 2. First lucid dream: I skipped school because most students weren’t at school due to heavy rain that flooded the roads. I went home and slept. Suddenly I woke and felt I couldn’t move. My body started vibrating. It was all much like that alien sitting on me. I rose from the bed, felt free (in retrospect it actually felt like I jumped out of my body.) I walked out of my room, really disoriented. I hit the light switch while I forced my eyes open. The switch didn’t work(a clear sign of lucid dreaming, btw.) Suddenly I realized something: This wasn’t my apartment. It was something completely friggin different. I pulled my mobile phone up from my pocket. It wasn’t my phone. I looked at the contact list: by each number was the image of a terrorist. I realized that; while this is a dream or something, this probably isn’t the safest place to be! I jumped out the window and decided I’d have some fun. I ran faster than humanly possibly, the dream finally ending in me doing a backflip off a clip. I believe this was more Astral Projection than Lucid dreaming(if there is a difference) as I found it more vivid than in all my later dream travels. This is the event that lead me to begin my journey as a lucid dreamer. 3. The skull on the stick. One of my most interesting lucid dreams. I become lucid in some weird dream where I am in a dessert like city. As I scan the area I find a donkey. Now, iI've often found myself to be both a little retarded, and also quite evil. I decided I’d kick the donkey. It’s owner gets mad at me, so I flee. Flying seemed to me the most interesting way to travel (as it often is.) I fly up toward some mountains. There is a path up there and it is filled with beautiful lights, as if you’re seeing millions of torches. The mountain in itself is purple. I get there. - Hey, idiot, you’re flying against traffic. The words of a bug-like, winged humanoid. - Sorry! It seems as if they’re all flying in one direction, at me. I fly away. I fly over the most beautiful fields, flying so low I can actually feel straws of grass brushing against me. I now fly toward another mountain. It has a lake. I fly right above the water (I should have walked on it, shouldn’t I?) I see some rocks on top of each other, almost in the shape of a totem pole. I knock them down. - Hey, idiot, wtf are you doing? Put those back! I turn and I see a friggin head impaled on a stick, and it’s friggin talking to me! I decide to ask some question this weird creature. - Uhmm, sorry sir. What exactly is this world? - Well, it was designed by the german …….. in the year of ….(can’t remember those parts). He devised keys you have to use to enter it. - Keys??? I don’t have a key??? As those words escape my lips I am tossed back into this world. It’s almost as if I was booted from that world. As I sit here and write it, my consciousness fills in the blanks, obviously. But I believe I have gotten it quite accurately. I called my brother and told him everything. 5. Fighting monsters. Haha, this is one of the more fun lucid dreams I’ve had. I gain lucidity. I see 2 boys sitting on a bench. They talk shit to me. I decide I’ll teach them a lesson. I reach out my hand, pointing the palm at one of the boys. I concentrate and begin disfiguring him, twisting his face, almost burning him. As I’ve said, I’m often evil in the beginning of my lucid dreams. Suddenly, I realize I’ve disrupted something(like the balance of the dream or something). About 300 feet away from me I see a big fucking monster. Really big. I decide to fight him, and I decide to fly to where he is. To me, flying is often hard for some reason. I can't simply just take off.. Usually it takes tremendous willpower. However, I’d read about a technique someone posted: you start running, and imagine a cliff ahead of you. Jump off it and keep thinking you’ll not touch the ground. I slowly reduced my falling rate, concentrating real hard, I barely touch the ground, then I’m sucked upwards. I’m flying. Demons are everywhere now. Below me there are thousand of them of various sizes, they are attacking a village, burning it to the ground. I fly toward a demon, I kick some off, but damn, I need a sword! I focus on a sword coming to my hand. I stare at it. Nothing happens. I decide that I have to look away while I concentrate. I look at one of the burning buildings. Suddenly, it is in my hand. Not only a sword. A burning sword! I fly down to the ground and decide to face a small demon, a lesser one. It’s face is twisted and burnt. I take the sword and strike at him. He is immune to my lashings. He comes at me, attacking. I wake up. A month or so ago, I was suddenly sucked into a lucid dream. It literally felt like something dragged me into it, so I played along. As I gained more and more lucidity, I decided to try something: Turn everything into a cartoon. I'd had lucid dreams before where the scenery was cartoonish, but I decided to do this on my own. I just imagined it as a cartoon, and cartoon it became. Along the way of wherever it was I was walking, I saw Ariel(the little mermaid.) I kissed her and moved on. I don't remember all the details of this dream anymore, but suddenly it all became like Zelda - Ocarina of time... Everything was crappy 3D.. The rest of the dream was pretty uninteresting, but I did turn 2D on and off a couple of times.