Extreme Paradox with Recent LDs -- Dream Characters are Lucid! Has anyone else experienced this?
This is very, very interesting to me.
Context: It is well known that dream characters have a tendency to deny knowing that you are in a dream or that you are lucid. I've heard lucid dreaming be defined as any of the following: knowing you are in a dream without controlling it, controlling a dream without knowing you are in a dream, or the combination of knowing you are in a dream and controlling the dream. I have been lucid dreaming for around 7 years off and on. Almost without fail I exert control every night I dream, to varying degrees, but I tend to exert a lot of control. About once a week I actually have the proper lucid dream of knowing I am dreaming and controlling my dream. However, I have experienced two dreams which have been extremely different and difficult to categorize.
Dream One:
I had a long dream, which I was not lucid in until about the last "10 minutes". I realized I was dreaming, and flew around for 5 minutes until I noticed my mother. I landed next to her, and once I looked at her, she told me she was lucid dreaming, and I didn't even start the conversation. I was shocked. I firmly believed throughout the dream that we were co-dreaming. I believed this because she told me that we were sharing a dream. My landscapes aren't as awesome as some of the members of this forum, but as soon as she told me that we were co-dreaming, the entire landscape changed into the most brilliant and beautiful that I have ever run accross. I cannot begin to describe it. I told my mom that I have never witnessed this before, and she then told me the change in landscape was due to her because she was able to do this while I was not. This strengthened my conviction that we were sharing a dream 10fold. This lasted about 5 minutes, and then I woke up. Immediately I picked up my phone and called my mom, who didn't answer. Thank fully. Even awake I still thought the dream was shared. While somewhat embarassing, I must admit that it probably took me another half-hour to remember that this is impossible.
The paradox is two-fold: a dream character acknowledged the lucid dream, and the dream character deceived me, while I was lucid, and this deception continued even after I awoke.
I had been amazed by this experience ever sense.
Dream Two:
My first dream pales in comparison to the dream I had last night. It was about "an hour" long dream. I was lucid immediately, from the start. I flew around for less than a minute, before I decided to land next to a group of people. I am not sure what inclined me to do so, as normally I isolate and just fly around in lucid dreams. As soon as I landed they all mentioned that they were lucid dreaming, and that we were co-dreaming. I got so excited because I remembered the event with my mother (but I failed to remember that I was deceived by the dream characters). We all went on an adventure. It was incredible. The entire time all we discussed while walking/flying around was lucid dreaming. Some members were beginners. Some members were advanced. At one point I asked the leader of the group "how is it possible that we are sharing a lucid dream". He explained to me a system, which I understood after I woke up to be very similar to the Matrix, where people in real life had designed technology to enable this, and they had to constantly monitor the shared, lucid dreaming world, because there were essentially hackers trying to disrupt it. However the monitoring occurred inside of the matrix (inside the dream world), as opposed to outside of the matrix (in real life). I was taken on a tour of the technology. I met a cute girl who was a techie in this monitoring laboratory, and she wrote down her number and gave it to me. Shortly after this, some type of alarm system started ringing out, and I was told that hackers were trying to break in, and that they they needed to force me to wake up. I said that I didn't want to leave, and then I felt myself being sucked backwards, into a whole, and I was covered in deep, deep fear, but then I woke up.
I didn't actually wake up. I had a false-awake. I "woke up" in a child hood house, and my first reaction was to say that my dream was impossible, there is no co-dreaming, there is no matrix for co-dreaming, and I was bummed that I didn't actually get that girl's number. I went to my mail box, where I saw a bill that I needed to pay. There was a logo on the front for some kind of dreaming company. Interested, I opened the bill, and saw that I was charged (I can't recall the price). Then, there was a note on the bottom of the bill, and it was from that girl! She wrote down a joke about me not wanting to exit the dream when it was getting hacked, and left her phone number. This was so thrilling. I totally believed again that the matrix/dream world was real as well as co-dreaming. Then, for whatever reason, I went back into my room, which has doors pointing outside, and water was leaking under the doors from rain outside (although it wasn't raining when I went to get the bill). I started to plug it was towels, but it became worse and worse, and I started panicking, eventually waking up, for real.
Again, the paradox is two-fold, dream characters acknowledged the lucid dream, and the dream characters convinced me that we were co-dreaming! While the deception did not continue after I woke, regardless, in my so-called lucid dream I was deceived by dream characters who are supposed to deny being in a dream!!!
Another way to express this is that the dream characters themselves are lucid, that they are aware that they are in a dream, and they are now trying to convince me that they are real people having a dream, and that we are sharing the same dream.
The dream characters seem to take an extreme, active role in these new LDs I have had. Normally, they are extremely passive. I am now being passive, led around my the DCs.
I am truly excited about this. These were so much more interesting that my normal LDs.
Has anyone experienced something similar to this?
It should be noted that I started taking piracetam two weeks ago. The correlation must be relevant. Last week I started taking choline bitartrate and sulbutiamine in addition to the piracetam. While I can't say I've noticed any increase in cognitive abilities, my dreams in general have been much more vivid. And my lucid dreams are starting to be controlled by something other than me.
