trapped in the dream realm
This afternoon I had a wild and it was probably the longest lucid dream experience I've ever had. The most notable thing to me though was that at one point I wanted to wake up, but I absolutely couldn't.
At around 1:30pm I was extremely tired from partying the night before so I took a nap and set my alarm for 3:45pm. After lying down it didn't take long for sleep paralysis to set in and then I started lucid dreaming. After messing around for a while I remembered to do this experiment that I have been working on. I my dreams I try to remember to look for/manifest artwork and then if I see something trippy or cool I wake up and try to recreate it.
I found something I liked in today's dream and I tried to wake up so I wouldn't forget it, but every attempt at waking failed. I tried to listen to my breathing and imagine myself in bed. I blacked out at one point and thought I woke up. I was sitting up in bed and looked at my hand and it was all distorted and I knew I was still dreaming. Then I took a pencil and stabbed it through my hand and still I didn't wake up.
After trying some other things I gave up and just decided to go with the flow of the dream. It felt like it went on for hours. I thought that I would never wake up and that maybe my body went into a coma or something. It was on my mind throughout the entire dream. I wasn't really scared because the thought of lucid dreaming forever didn't seem all that bad. It was a weird feeling though. Eventually it was the alarm clock that I had set for 3:45 that woke me up. I almost wished I hadn't set it just to see how long I would have kept dreaming.
I estimate it was around 2 hours that I spent in the dream. It was really fun, but unfortunately I am unable to remember and recreate the artwork I saw to my satisfaction. Has anyone else felt like they were trapped in a dream for such and exorbitant amount of time? It would be interesting to hear other peoples experiences and if they were able to break free.