A Lucid Dream: "Altered States"
This dream had a very abstract David Lynch Quality to it.
Dreamtime: 4:30 AM (the approx real world time the dream was dreamt)
Dream Location/Setting: My Room
Emotional Content: Anxiety
Genre: Abstract Horror
Type: Lucid
Level: 3 to 4
0= None
1= Know I am dreaming, but get distracted/Semi-lucid
2= Know I am dreaming but can't exert any control
3= Know I am dreaming and have 50% control can remember intent, but not waking life.
4= Know I am dreaming and can control 80 to 100% of all dream elements.
Remember intent, and waking life.
5=OBE
I know I am dreaming when the dream begins. The dream is very different from my other dreams in that: it is dark, it is night. Usually my dreams take place in fictional locations and it is during the day. I am in my room. I am aware of my sleeping body. I try to see through my closed eyelids, and I can, so this reality check (a new one I am experimenting with) works. But then I open my eyes. I have the feeling that I have opened my real eyes, but I do not wake up physically. However, this gives the dream an unsettling quality. Paradox: Am I awake in my sleeping body, or alert in a dream? An instinctual fear or gut reaction of something being wrong pervades through out the rest of the dream. It is as if I can hear whispers, but can't understand what they are saying. I try to fly, something that has always been easy for me to do in lucid and non-lucid dreams, but instead I feel trapped, glued to my room. The wind is blowing so hard that it breaks all the windows in my room. This frightens me. I try to turn on the light switch (another reality check), but nothing happens. I still know that I am dreaming. I am anxious. It is as if I am testing myself with every possible thing I can think of that can go wrong in a lucid dream, besides losing lucidity.
I dream that I am talking in my sleep, which I may well be doing in reality, as I do sometimes talk in my sleep. My attempts to control my dream environment fail, perhaps because my environment is so realistic: it is the room I am sleeping in, not some fictional dream-scape.
I want to try the "draw a door in the air" technique. I have chalk in my hand, but I can't seem to bring myself to draw the door.
I am then back in my bed, and I am very aware of how heavy my body feels. I can hear the blood pumping through my arteries, and it is too loud. I am uncomfortable, I want to turn on my side, but can't. I figure this must be body paralysis, so I wait until I can. After sometime, I can, and do. This wakes me up physically. I have had restless sleep. I have been kicking the covers off and the cat has scratched my thigh- and I slept through it.
I would say that this Lucid Dream was a "bad trip", there was no vivid detail, colors, or awe. Just the knowledge that I am dreaming with some control.
Dreamtime: 4:30 AM (the approx real world time the dream was dreamt)
Dream Location/Setting: My Room
Emotional Content: Anxiety
Genre: Abstract Horror
Type: Lucid
Level: 3 to 4
0= None
1= Know I am dreaming, but get distracted/Semi-lucid
2= Know I am dreaming but can't exert any control
3= Know I am dreaming and have 50% control can remember intent, but not waking life.
4= Know I am dreaming and can control 80 to 100% of all dream elements.
Remember intent, and waking life.
5=OBE
I know I am dreaming when the dream begins. The dream is very different from my other dreams in that: it is dark, it is night. Usually my dreams take place in fictional locations and it is during the day. I am in my room. I am aware of my sleeping body. I try to see through my closed eyelids, and I can, so this reality check (a new one I am experimenting with) works. But then I open my eyes. I have the feeling that I have opened my real eyes, but I do not wake up physically. However, this gives the dream an unsettling quality. Paradox: Am I awake in my sleeping body, or alert in a dream? An instinctual fear or gut reaction of something being wrong pervades through out the rest of the dream. It is as if I can hear whispers, but can't understand what they are saying. I try to fly, something that has always been easy for me to do in lucid and non-lucid dreams, but instead I feel trapped, glued to my room. The wind is blowing so hard that it breaks all the windows in my room. This frightens me. I try to turn on the light switch (another reality check), but nothing happens. I still know that I am dreaming. I am anxious. It is as if I am testing myself with every possible thing I can think of that can go wrong in a lucid dream, besides losing lucidity.
I dream that I am talking in my sleep, which I may well be doing in reality, as I do sometimes talk in my sleep. My attempts to control my dream environment fail, perhaps because my environment is so realistic: it is the room I am sleeping in, not some fictional dream-scape.
I want to try the "draw a door in the air" technique. I have chalk in my hand, but I can't seem to bring myself to draw the door.
I am then back in my bed, and I am very aware of how heavy my body feels. I can hear the blood pumping through my arteries, and it is too loud. I am uncomfortable, I want to turn on my side, but can't. I figure this must be body paralysis, so I wait until I can. After sometime, I can, and do. This wakes me up physically. I have had restless sleep. I have been kicking the covers off and the cat has scratched my thigh- and I slept through it.
I would say that this Lucid Dream was a "bad trip", there was no vivid detail, colors, or awe. Just the knowledge that I am dreaming with some control.