False Awakening on an Aeroplane!
Well today I did the ultimate WBTB only it was more like WAGGOAP (wake and go get on a plane). I went to bed at midnight then got up at 3:30am and went to the airport and got on a plane. There were heaps of spare seats so after take off I went and lay down and fell asleep. I'd been awake for about 3.5 hours.
Next thing I know I'm sitting up holding my cellphone which is going mental. I naturally do a reality test and my watch is also going mental. At first I think it's just a cool new mode. It's making these cute sounds and the display is all animated. Then I realise I'm probably dreaming. But it's sooooo real that I can hardly believe it so I get up and walk down the aisle thinking how amazing it is and decide to confirm by trying to put my arm through a seat. I can't do it and I really start to wonder if I am actually dreaming. Then I woke up :( I'm so annoyed coz as I went to sleep I thought how cool it would to be lucid on the plane and go up to the cockpit and crash it! Never mind!
Through the Looking Glass
I'm currently on holiday in Cairns, Australia. Last night I went to bed at 9:30pm. Then at 11:30pm the Asian people staying in the next room which has a connecting door to our room made a devil of a din getting home and I was woken up. They then started cooking and the smell came through to our room. It took me about an hour to get back to sleep but when I did the lucids came thick and fast!
I'm in a dream in which I'm in my hotel room and I go through the connecting door to the Asians' room. In there I see two girls who I work with A & G. I start talking to them and G tells me how they have been out on the town and they went hard core and were pretty wasted. Then A says something (I can't remember what) but it makes me think I should do a reality test. I look at my digital watch and the numbers are going mental and I instantly realise I'm dreaming. I then walk back into my hotel room. My husband Chris is sitting at the dining table. I think about how I just got lucid and commit it to memory. I feel quite excited because I know that it's early in the night and I am nowhere near waking up and I have a lot of dreaming to do yet.
For fun I say to Chris "hey watch this" and I walk over to a huge mirror that extends from the ceiling to the floor and put both my arms through it. But he's not impressed and tells me that he knows I'm dreaming. I then walk right through the mirror! It's the first time I've done this. On the other side the room is identical only reversed (amazing how my brain can do that) and Chris is not there. I feel a bit freaked out so walk back through to where he is.
I then remember my goal which is simply to "let the dream winds blow" in other words to go wherever the dream takes me. I walk out of the door and start walking down a corridor.
Then I have a FA and lose lucidity. I dream I'm recording my LD onto my voice recorder and into my journal. I then start trying to WILD thinking I've safely recorded that dream and hope to have another LD.
Then I'm in a new dream still nonlucid. I'm next door in the Asians' room again only now I'm helping them cook up a banquet for a wedding they have to go to the next day. The CEO of my workplace is there. There's also a blonde hippy girl there telling me how she's on her honeymoon. This dream goes on for a while.
Then I'm in another new dream where I'm in some sort of cafe with Chris and we bump into a guy who we apparently know (we don't in RL). We sit at a table with him and some other guys join us. I'm having to keep moving my seat as more people join our table. Then suddenly I'm outside the cafe and I immediately become lucid. I don't know exactly why I just recognize that I'm dreaming. There is a woman there and as I start to walk off she starts saying in a distressed voice "I can't see, I can't see". I look at her. She is old and very unattractive. I feel a bit bad for her but strictly remind myself that she is 'just a DC and I don't need to worry about helping her.' But something compels me to go to her aid, as if the dream wants me to do this and only this.
I go over to her and ask if she's ok. She says that she's fine now and can see again. Then she turns into this super hot blonde chick and inexplicably (as I'm completely straight in RL and have never got it on with a chick) I decide to get it on with her.
On awakening I am annoyed to realise I haven't recorded my first dream at all.
Two Failed Reality Tests! Grrr!
Absolutely spewing here.
The night before last I dreamed I was with a member of my extended family, Jack, watching a movie when another family member, Ruth, suddenly appeared. Ruth hasn’t spoken to Jack in over a decade, and with good reason. Suddenly Ruth apologized to Jack. I looked at Ruth in utter amazement and disbelief. I then stated in a dramatic tone, “Oh my God. I don’t believe it. Um… reality test!” I then performed an over-emphasized reality test by looking at my watch, flicking my wrist over and looking at my watch agin. I did this a few times during which I didn’t actually analyze the time on my watch. I was doing it more to show my utter astonishment to Ruth.
What a moron :roll:
But it gets worse…
Last night I was in the middle of a dream, again with Ruth. At one point I had a messed up Rubik’s Cube in my right hand. Ruth was going to tell me a quick way to do it. I looked at the messy cube then looked at Ruth. She gave me an instruction and I looked back at the cube only to find it was perfectly complete! I immediately thought, ‘Wow! That’s impossible! I absolutely MUST be dreaming here’. I then performed a reality test using my digital watch. I know I was looking at it but I have no recollection of what I saw or of the dream continuing. I think either I went into a new dream or I slowly woke up.
I think these two events are just a bit of bad luck due to my dreaming brain not being entirely compos mentos but nevertheless will step up my reality testing vigilance as of today I think!
Strange and Amazing SP/Lucid Experience
I can't remember what time I went to bed but it was quite early, maybe around 9.30 or 10pm. I woke up at 5:20am rather annoyed that I'd not only had no lucid dreams but in fact had had really tedious nonlucid dreams. I got up to do a WBTB. I went on my pc for about twenty mins then went back to bed and lay awake for an hour thinking 'I wonder why I don't get much SP anymore'. (I haven't had SP for a good eight months.) The last thing I remember thinking is 'I'm not going to get to sleep so I might as well get up now'
Next thing I know I'm suddenly standing in a bathroom-like room with blue walls. It was odd because it was the very start of a dream after a period of complete unconsciousness. After a few seconds I noticed that the room seemed kind of strange and thought 'I think I might be dreaming'. As soon as I had that thought there was suddenly this completely amazing shift in my consciousness and the way I was perceiving my surroundings. It's hard to explain in words but it was like a complete shift in reality. It was awesome! I put my arms out in front of me and thought 'wow!' I just knew I was dreaming. I didn't even think about doing a reality test. It just wasn't necessary at all. The room felt so strange and eery - very classically dreamlike.
Then I went blind. I was worried about waking up so I concentrated really hard on trying to see. It took ages but then suddenly I was sucked/launched/warped into a new place. It was another strange looking room only this time the walls were yellow. I then saw teddy bears and the face of an African-American man on the wall. At the same time I became aware of my actual body in my bed and that it was moving slightly. It was kind of jerking just a little bit and I felt like I was waking up.
Then I had a FA. I was walking through my house and intending to turn on my pc to get on msn to spaceexplorer but in the place of my pc was my television set. There was dust all over the floor and I thought how I must vacuum it up. I couldn't figure out how to turn on the TV and this made me realise I was still dreaming.
Then I woke up. The SP was absolutely amazing and cool and unlike any I've experienced before.
Jeepers creepers, I'm useless!
Right, it's 3am and I've just woken up from a dream about being in a small seaside town hit by a tsunami. I saw this huge wave and was running from it along a dirt road. There were other villagers running too. We took refuge in an old church with a stained glass window. A lady was taking pictures of the window with her i-phone. I suddenly wondered if I'd done a reality test when I'd seen the tsunami. I just couldn't remember. I hoped I did. Then I thought 'oh well, better late than never' and did one but it failed...
Is there any hope for me? :shock:
