Thread: Reality check = bucket of fail?

I had this dream a few weeks ago in which I was in a mansion in its basement. Very vividly, I could hear my echoing footsteps on wooden floors in an endless hallway lined with televisions (ala the movie Down to Earth with chris rock). A young english woman's voice in my head asked me "You have no idea where you are, do you?" Apparently I always have my phone in my dreams because I always check my phone in real life - not for the sake of RCs but to check the time, check for texts, etc.

As I'm pulling my phone out of my pocket to look for a missed call, I realize "Hey this is a reality check I can do" and so I open my phone looking for confirmation. I am confirmed by red kanji characters probably indicating some sort of telephone error. I close my phone and decide to look again because I heard that different things will be displayed each time you look, and I was curious. As soon as I make this decision in my head, the word TRILOGY pops up on the televsions on either side and scrolls across over and over in the Matrix movie font we all would recognize.

http://www.scififantasystore.com/sit...;20trilogy.jpg

This makes me very paranoid and I'm suddenly very desperate to open my phone again as if it would save me from unseen dangers. It is nearly impossible to open. As I'm pulling on it the tv screens get all flickery and dodgy, "trilogy" bouncing around eerily. With all my strength I get my phone open and to my horror the screen is blank with a white background. My eyes seem to zoom in close on the cell phone screen in my hand, which is shaking wildly because I felt like my phone was vibrating my entire body. I can't breath at all, I feel my mouth literally hanging open, and I hear a sound in my ears like a three year old trying to play the violin - just horrible screeching. My focus goes back to the hallway in front of me and a black hole seems to grow out of the distance and get bigger and closer until everything goes black. Seconds later a white square rolls into my black vision (kind of like in a movie trailer). In red letters it reads "GTA stt!!" Then it scrolls off to the left and another one comes in from the right and it says "Black against brilliance." After it is gone I'm left in a starry void for a few seconds, then I'm awake in sleep paralysis, me being full awake and mobile still seconds later.

My questions are thus:

If being lucid is merely knowing that you are dreaming, and I knew I was dreaming from RC number 1 and onward, when why would I be so frightened by the word "trilogy?"

why would I have this dread of an unseen force?

and why would a second RC scare me so much when I saw just what I expected to see when I did it?

The sensations I felt when my phone went off in my hand feel alot like what people describe when they are experiencing sleep paralysis - the dread, the vibrations, the noise, etc. Was this LD just extremely vivid hallucinations of SP?

Could trilogy or the content of the advertisements at the end of the dream have significance or just be randomness?