Multiple Dream Oddities Leading to Lucidity

**pog** · 04-14-2013 02:40 PM

So, last night I had a range of dream phenomena linked together.

First, I had 'normal' dreams that blurred into an especially vivid and convoluted 'dream-within-a-dream' (I dreamt I was dreaming etc). Secondly, I then awoke and started checking because I was really unsure as to whether I was still dreaming or not. I became satisfied I was in reality, but a minute later I realised I was in the 'wrong' house - I was dreaming. It starts to get a little blurry here, but I think I then tried to initiate a WILD or WBTB or something similar even though I had recognised I was dreaming (odd) - but it seems that it 'worked' in that I entered another dream (or dream-within-a-dream, or continuation of the original dream, however you want to see it) where I knew I was dreaming ... a round about way of doing it, I guess, but lucidity reached nevertheless

Knowing I was dreaming I started to panic a little about losing lucidity, so I tried to stabilise. People had posted on here that one method to stabilise was to concentrate upon the senses, and this advice had obviously struck a chord with me because I concentrated upon the feel of a sock I was holding (don't ask). This worked; although I did not have the elation-sensation or the hyper-real sensation I'd had with previous LDs, I was dreaming in a dreamscape that was as 'real' as the waking world, I knew I was dreaming, and I had stabilised it.

Lucidity didn't last as long as I wanted, and soon I was awake (I think something disturbed my sleep from outside, grrrrr!), but all in all a successful LD.

My main point to all this, and a question, is that since working on dreams I have massively increased not just my LD count, but also many other dream and dream-related phenomena as well. Does this match other people's experiences, and what other dream oddities can I expect to encounter as I continue to progress?

**gab** · 04-14-2013 05:20 PM

After I started to lucid dream, I have noticed more frequent occurence of false awakenings and lucid elements in non-lucid dreams. That's because you think about dreaming often, when practicing for LDing.

I have had some regular dreams with partial control and tiny bit of awarness. Some of them later turned into LD, some didn't. And I have had a bunch of dreams, when I lay down inside of a dream to sleep and have a WILD, or I did something to WILD, that mimics my WILDing from waking life.

**Scionox** · 04-14-2013 08:13 PM

I have alot of dream related dreams, especially recently, lots of false awakenings, fake SP and WILDing in dreams, very confusing, hehe.

As gab said, it's pretty normal because when we get into lucid dreaming we start thinking about dreaming more often, and since dreams are often based on recent activities, that happens.