I had a crappy lucid dream

[Black_Eagle]

Last night I did my first WILD. Unintentionally, but accomplished nonetheless. So here's how my crappy lucid dream came and went: I woke up at 5:00 because my right arm was folded over my head and I lost circulation. When I lose circulation to my right arm, it's completely numb and I can't feel or move it at all. It happens quite a bit to me for some odd reason. So I got it back into a comfortable position and everything was fine. Except I couldn't get back to sleep. I waited for awhile and began slowly falling back to sleep. I glanced at my clock at about six forty. Five minutes later I began feeling the typical crazy vibrations. I faded away from reality and found myself in a strapped to some sort of torture table which stood upright facing one of those pull-down overhead projection screens. My only binding was a thick strap that went across my waist. I was in a very dark room which only myself, the table, and the screen were visible. There was a projection of plain light on the screen, no visuals yet. I don't remember much detail on this part, but there was a man standing to the left of the screen who made some hand gestures that gave me the impression I was supposed to pay attention to that screen. After he gave these gestures, he walked out of frame and I never saw him again. Some sort of video game came up on screen. It was a person in a room. I figured out right off the bat that I had control over this character and could move him from room to room. After about 20 seconds I got bored of that and decided to go do something else. But I couldn't. The binding would not let loose. I struggled and struggled, but it would not free me. In fact, it became tighter and painful. Keep in mind, I am fully conscious in my dream and have full control of my body and the character on screen, but absolutely none on anything else. I tried everything. I tried wishing it away, I tried creating a hammer to break my binding, and I tried just slipping out of it. "This sucks" I thought to myself. After a bit more struggling I figured I could not break free. I decided just to wait the next ten minutes for my alarm clock to go off. So I waited. It must have been about 4-7 minutes just laying there....completely lucid.....doing absolutely nothing with this valuable moment of time, when the binding tightened around my waist and became extremely painful. Before then, I didn't even know you could feel pain in the dream world. "WAKE UP!!!" I yelled and yelled again and again, but I would not wake up. It felt like really, really bad bowel cramps lining my waist. I must have endured a constance of that feeling for 3-5 minutes when finally my alarm clock went off and I faded out of the dream world and back into reality. Needless to say, I was kind of pissed off when I woke up. Gayest Lucid Dream I have ever had.

[IndigoGhost]

wow..... sounds, worrying. If you can feel pain that bad maybe i am haveing second thoughts on trying to get my first LD that i havent had for 4 months -.- But anyway, seems wierd you coudlent wake yourself up, i am pretty sure you should ahve been able too.

[Black_Eagle]

I wouldn't worry about it. It seems most people (pretty much everyone except me) have never had a lucid dream like this. It was a freak incident. I guess the pain I felt wasn't all THAT bad, but it was extremely uncomfortable. One detail that I did not include was that nearing the end of the dream, I became less lucid and I had less control over mysel. Make no mistake, I was still lucid with control, just less so nearing the end.

[Rebecca800]

Black Eagle, sounds like you were very much "in between" consciousness........ given the amount of awareness you still had of your physical body. Its just a guess but the reason you couldn't move may have been connected to sleep paralysis. People report pain in their chest as a result of holding their breath from panic - maybe related? Also people report the sound of footsteps which is really their own heartbeat. However your hallucinations went all the way into a vivid dreamworld! I sometimes experience severe pain in normal but vivid dreams. Usually this is because I have a real stomach cramp or lose circulation or have the pillow pushing against my windpipe! These external stimuli will be incorporated into the dream in whatever way your brain wants. It sounds scary that you couldn't wake yourself up, but as you say this is very, very rare. Normally in a lucid dream you can just shout "WAKE UP" and it happens. Or open and close your eyes a few times. I guess the fact that you couldn't move (or were stuck in sleep paralysis) had something to do with this.

[marcher22]

I've done a WILD before where i pretty much just ended up in the "dream" version of my room. I knew i was dreaming though cause of the lighting and some curtains and what not. But anyways i was lying down the same way i was when i attempted the WILD. Tried to get up. COULDN'T!!! and when i did i was struggling. Like i was shaking, some invisble force just kept pushing me down. I wasn't even able to perform a RC ( even though i knew i was dreaming) . I couldnt get my hands to my nose, i couldn't even raise my hand high enough for me to see it. It was my 2nd LD so i didnt want to end it so i just waited to see what would happen.. And today something similiar happened. I guess maybe people experience pain in the dreams but to differenct extents... Well im glad your alive

[Chef]

dont scare me now! Sleep paralysis sounds so cary :O , guess i will continue to try for normal lucids instead of wilds :

[drewmandan]

Next time (god forbid) you might want to try entering the screen. You can also try closing your dream eyes and imagining yourself somewhere else. Commands often work too, like "release my bindings!", which might cause someone to casually stroll into the room and release you. Of course, if all of that doesn't work, realize that even Neo couldn't fly at first.

[Rebecca800]

Sleep paralysis happens to you every night. Its your body's way of protecting you from jumping out the window next time you dream of taking giant leaps across a field. So its completely natural and not at all scary if you understand what's happening. Stephen LaBerge points out this is a great state to be in, because you are a tiny step away from a lucid dream. I wrote an article about it here if you're interested: (including how to stop it if it happens). So if you think "oh man SP sounds like a nightmare!" then you are setting yourself up for trouble......... you will panic if/when it happens to you..... so don't do that