Thread: Probably a very stupid question, but this happened and I was very confused when I woke up.

Hello again everyone,

This time, my noob question will be about the "dream inside a dream" concept. No, not like Inception, but more like you're dreaming about lucid dreaming, in this case.

Tonight I once again tried WILD (to no avail of course) but something funny happened. I'm not sure about the chronological order everything happened, but after some time of WILDing, I think I gave up or just fell asleep normally. Then, after I fell asleep (I suppose), I feel a weird sensation, like I was being pushed towards the ground, like being buried/falling or something and after that, I'm in my room, do a RC and become lucid I suppose. I walk around a little bit and BAM! I'm in my bed again, feeling the same sensation, and once again ending up in the same lucid (?). This time, I walk around my room a little bit , try to stabilize by taking a good look around, rubbing the walls, but not too long after that, I wake up for real and I'm like "what the hell????"

So my question is exactly that, is it possible that I was not lucid, but dreamed about having a lucid dream? How could I feel the "falling" sensation twice, specially after I was already sleeping and not aware at all (I think). All those 2 supposed lucids felt very very washed out and not vivid at all. My impression is that I actually was dreaming about feeling those sensations, as I already have read them a few times here on DV.

I'm very confused, and I've been like what the fu** since I woke up today.

Thanks again for any responses!

*edit: I forgot two fun/weird facts:

When I was "lucid", walking around my apartment, I remembered that in my first LD ever, what triggered my lucidity was my refrigerator: it was in the living room, and after I remember that, there it is, in the same place. WTF? Does this mean anything at all?
Also in the second "lucid", I had a really hard time opening my right eye. Anyone experienced that before? Maybe I could not open my eyes because I wasn't actually lucid dreaming? Fact is that I'm not sure if I even managed to open it during the dream.

Wtfs, wtfs everywhere.

Originally Posted by gndiego

Hello again everyone,

This time, my noob question will be about the "dream inside a dream" concept. No, not like Inception, but more like you're dreaming about lucid dreaming, in this case.

Tonight I once again tried WILD (to no avail of course) but something funny happened. I'm not sure about the chronological order everything happened, but after some time of WILDing, I think I gave up or just fell asleep normally. Then, after I fell asleep (I suppose), I feel a weird sensation, like I was being pushed towards the ground, like being buried/falling or something and after that, I'm in my room, do a RC and become lucid I suppose. I walk around a little bit and BAM! I'm in my bed again, feeling the same sensation, and once again ending up in the same lucid (?). This time, I walk around my room a little bit , try to stabilize by taking a good look around, rubbing the walls, but not too long after that, I wake up for real and I'm like "what the hell????"

So my question is exactly that, is it possible that I was not lucid, but dreamed about having a lucid dream? How could I feel the "falling" sensation twice, specially after I was already sleeping and not aware at all (I think). All those 2 supposed lucids felt very very washed out and not vivid at all. My impression is that I actually was dreaming about feeling those sensations, as I already have read them a few times here on DV.

I'm very confused, and I've been like what the fu** since I woke up today.

Thanks again for any responses!

To me it sounds like you were actually lucid. My first WILD was just like yours - I didn't really try for long, then I "ALMOST" fell asleep but once I got the noises and weird sensations I was aware and going through the WILD process. I woke myself up by accident during the HH stage, which you luckily didn't. You seem to have had a false awakening which are quite common when doing WILD, so that's completely alright. As for you "suddenly" waking up, it would be nice to know EXACTLY what you did to make you wake up.

Originally Posted by Kruse

To me it sounds like you were actually lucid. My first WILD was just like yours - I didn't really try for long, then I "ALMOST" fell asleep but once I got the noises and weird sensations I was aware and going through the WILD process. I woke myself up by accident during the HH stage, which you luckily didn't. You seem to have had a false awakening which are quite common when doing WILD, so that's completely alright. As for you "suddenly" waking up, it would be nice to know EXACTLY what you did to make you wake up.

THanks for your reply. I remember that during my wild, I switched positions, knowing that that would ruin the whole process, but at that point, I had almost given up for the night, but it happened after I switched positions. Maybe it won't necessarily screw the attempt.

When I felt the falling sensation (or dreamed about it) I remembered to focus, and not get too excited, I remember controlling my breathing so I would not fu** it up. Maybe it really happened! I might've been was successful then.

I also vaguely remember other weird sensations before that (I felt like my head was like expanding or something and consuming all around it LOL), that stopped when I got too excited and started breathing like an athlete after running for like an hour lol.

It is possible to dream about being lucid. I will normally think 'I am lucid so I can do this or that.' But that is easily taken away because I didn't really know what lucid meant.And a leprechaun stole my lucidity. Literally that is what he told me.

But, especially the eye thing, sounds like you had a non vivid lucid. It happens. Kind of sucks, but you need to rejoice for even that.

Don't try to fix your eye or you could wake up. Just try to realize the truth.

Yeah I focused so hard on opening it, that maybe I didn't focus as much as necessary on keeping the dream stable. That sucks.

Yeah. Just don't think about your eyes. Stabilize. If it is still having trouble then either teleport or close both eyes and jump dream scenes. Just don't expect to wake up when you close your eyes. You do it in regular dreams all the time.

Yeah but it was like a bad trip at the time. That damn eye not opening was getting on my nerves xD

But you don't have eyes in dreams.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

But you don't have eyes in dreams.

yeah apparently I'm the first person in the world to have a bad trip over a non-existent eye.

No. People have asked before. My eyes blinking to me is a sign that I am waking up and need to stabilize, if I think about them too much I wake up.

Thanks for the info. Next time I'll just ignore it.