Thread: First Spontaneous Lucid Experience - Help me interpret my experience

Hi community, just to preface my story a bit, I'm familiar with the concept of lucidity because I was intrigued by it in high school, coming to these forums often but was never able to actually attain a state of consciousness within my dreams, so I sort of just let my sleep play itself out - until today.

I was laying with straight posture on my bed, with my legs crossed so that the right foot rested atop my left ankle, my head was propped by pillows and I was reading a book. I had been playing a video game which displays the current time in game just before, and I was quite drowsy and found myself drifting in and out of a snooze.

I had to leave to go somewhere in about half an hour, so I was a bit concerned I might fall asleep and miss my departure time, so my mind was gravitating toward time - which is where the in-game clock I just mentioned comes in. I fell into sleep and my field of vision was the game I had been playing, and I glanced at the time displayed on the screen and it was rapidly ticking up at about an hour per second - then the time magnified itself for some reason and took over my entire field of vision, and it was still ticking up rapidly.

This is when I caught the glitch (forget the technical term used here) and it pulled me out into dream-consciousness. As soon as I recognized the hitch ("Time doesn't work like that") my eyes within the dream began to open and simultaneously there was a brief wrenching sound that filled my ears and vanished as soon as I was fully conscious. My first feeling was utter terror - I was freaking out, but I soon told myself I am lucid and the feeling of fright dissipated. This is the most bizarre part, my body seemed to be frozen in the position I was laying on in the bed, and only my hands I could move. As soon as I awoke in the dream, my body floated across the room by its own accord and I got the sensation on bouncing off the walls - still unable to move my feet. Everything was distorted and when I lifted my hand it was like i was viewing it through warped glass, and I tried to conjure a ball on energy in my palm but was unsuccessful, then it ended and I woke back up with a deep inhale.

It would be so kind if anyone could interpret this and answer a few of my questions:
Was I truly lucid? What was the sound I heard while my eyes were opening? Why was I partially immobilized and hover-like drifting? Why was my vision distorted?

Thank you for your time and consideration

Sounds like a scary experience... The sounds you heard were most likely caused by you coming out of sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is the body's mechanism against movements of your dream body and causes hallucinations, vibrations, and odd noises if the dreamer is aware of the process that is occurring. (I'd look into it, because my explanation isn't very technical.) However, you floating around the room with no control of your dream is a completely different story. This sounds a LOT like an OBE, or out-of-body experience. Again, I'd research it for yourself reason being my lack of knowledge on the concept... These are rare, and you might want to compare your story to others' on a different forum. Congratulations on your first "lucid" though happy dreaming

Sounds like you were almost completely asleep in the beginning, and then you sort of woke up halfway. That happens to me sometimes. I get this thing where I'm dreaming and I can tell that my eyes are closed. I can walk around blind, but I snap to my actual bed when I try to open them. Crazy stuff can happen at the edge of sleep.