~Your dream is over... or has it just begun?~
I bought this book on lucid dreaming recently. The chapters are short and I'm trying to read one per day at bedtime... most nights. Last night, I actually read something else. I wasn't sure I wanted to try to lucid-dream, because the only time I've managed to come close to becoming lucid in a dream (since starting to read the book), I woke up panicked, as if I'd just had a nightmare, and I kinda wanted a decent night's sleep before starting a long Monday at work.
That just happened again -- the nightmare feeling -- only I got a little closer this time. In my dream, I realized I was dreaming. It felt a little like being in a video game... there was this weird old-school-but-emoji-like animated thing in front of me, I can't even describe it (although I know I could draw it). I was like "NOW WHAT DO I DO"... and I looked around, still dreaming, everything was dark... I saw what appeared to be a little TV screen with a baseball game on it. It also had a video-game like quality. As I looked at it, it got bigger, kinda like it was inviting me to walk up to it and... somehow go inside. So I did. I stepped inside, everything was suddenly life-size, and I heard a voice... someone was telling me he was going to pass me "the torch." Someone -- a man, I assume, although I couldn't see him -- handed me this flaming stick. A torch.
And I woke up gasping for air feeling like I'd just had a nightmare.
WTF? Am I afraid of what's lurking in my subconscious and that's why this keeps happening? I'm almost scared to find out that's true by continuing to read the book :/ And I wasn't even TRYING last night, unlike other recent nights. Is that like the people who try and try to get pregnant and as soon as they adopt, it happens? Hee.
I blame this whole thing on dancingdragon3, cuz a couple months ago I mentioned my "dreams LJ" to her, which I hadn't thought about in years, and just thinking about resurrecting it got me thinking about dreaming again, and when I saw the book I snatched it up, and here I am, wide awake and freaked out at 4am. (LOL yep, all your fault!)
That just happened again -- the nightmare feeling -- only I got a little closer this time. In my dream, I realized I was dreaming. It felt a little like being in a video game... there was this weird old-school-but-emoji-like animated thing in front of me, I can't even describe it (although I know I could draw it). I was like "NOW WHAT DO I DO"... and I looked around, still dreaming, everything was dark... I saw what appeared to be a little TV screen with a baseball game on it. It also had a video-game like quality. As I looked at it, it got bigger, kinda like it was inviting me to walk up to it and... somehow go inside. So I did. I stepped inside, everything was suddenly life-size, and I heard a voice... someone was telling me he was going to pass me "the torch." Someone -- a man, I assume, although I couldn't see him -- handed me this flaming stick. A torch.
And I woke up gasping for air feeling like I'd just had a nightmare.
WTF? Am I afraid of what's lurking in my subconscious and that's why this keeps happening? I'm almost scared to find out that's true by continuing to read the book :/ And I wasn't even TRYING last night, unlike other recent nights. Is that like the people who try and try to get pregnant and as soon as they adopt, it happens? Hee.
I blame this whole thing on dancingdragon3, cuz a couple months ago I mentioned my "dreams LJ" to her, which I hadn't thought about in years, and just thinking about resurrecting it got me thinking about dreaming again, and when I saw the book I snatched it up, and here I am, wide awake and freaked out at 4am. (LOL yep, all your fault!)