First Experience 30mins Ago
While browsing on the net about a year ago I stumbled upon lucid dreaming, and thought, oh yea I've had that happen before. Little did I know that I hadn't even been close to a real lucid dream. I read the wiki for a minute or so about realizing you're in a dream, and that was it.
Well, today around 7PM I was unusually tired and decided to take a quick nap (which is one reason why I think I finally had a lucid dream). I set the alarm for 8:30 so I wouldn't sleep all night, and when that rolled around I said screw it I'm just gonna go to bed. Quickly back into deep in sleep I was having a disturbing dream.
I was repeatedly being chased by cops (for a reason I still don't remember) and I kept getting caught. This wouldn't seem "disturbing" to most people, but I just had to go to court today for some BS and might get into some trouble, and even though it's supposed to be common this is one of the first dreams I remember getting chased. Anyway somehow I kept getting chased and caught over and over running away in helicopters and all kinds of stuff, until I ended up in bootcamp explaining to my mom why I did what I did. I blamed it on my dad for telling me to run, and he looked at me with some weird eyes sort of popping out of his head. At this time I still wasn't aware, but I knew it was odd. Much more stuff happened but this post is going to be long enough...
I then woke up and turned my body around, glancing at the clock which was at 11PM. I fell back asleep and went pretty much immediately back into the same dream. In bootcamp we were doing this weird exercise breathing and flexing our muscles, and the drill instructor did it so hard his eyes totally popped out of his head until his whole head consisted of one eye. I knew this was nuts, and thought back earlier to my dad's eyes popping out. I thought oh shit, I think I'm in a lucid dream. I immediately ran into the bathroom and looked in the mirror, because I remember reading in the wiki that your pupil takes up your whole eye in a lucid state.
This wasn't exactly the case. It was as if I was looking into looking into my eyes, if that makes any sense. It's hard to explain really, but I knew it wasn't right and yelled wohoo! Then everybody walking around me in the bootcamp had eyes for heads, and this really freaked me out. I knew it was only a dream, but this was all too much. I intentionally tried to pop out of the dream, but I couldn't. So I said screw this, and ran out of bootcamp. Once I got outside I tried flying, but I jumped in the air, was mid-air for a split second, and then face-planted on the ground.
I then started running really fast, and decided I'm going to have sex with the first girl I see (lol it's been a while). I was running in a suburb, and only passed about 2 or 3 women that looked awful, so I just passed. Getting pissed off I couldn't find anyone decent, I just popped out of the dream. I looked at the clock and it was only 11:24. This whole lucid dream which seemed like hours was only 24 minutes. I was still groggy and kind of scared, thinking I might still be dreaming, that's how real it really was.
This might not sound too interesting to most of you experienced dreamers, but this was really intense for me. It was the single most insane experience of my life next to DMT. I never had a dream like this before, even though I thought I might have had a lucid dream in the past. I was never this aware before and could never control this much.
I think it was a couple factors that allowed me to slip into such an intense experience. The first was that I was really tired and drained from court today, and that I went to sleep a time which I normally don't do. I also woke up 2 different times before becoming lucid, which I think remember reading a while back that waking up every hour or so helps. The main thing was probably the fact that I remembered the eye thing from earlier in the dream, which I knew just wasn't possible in real life. And I did wake up for a brief minute between the two weird eye moments.
Sorry for the long post, but this was really exciting/intense. I'm going to read up on this a little more and hopefully this can happen again.
