Thread: How can you tell someone is telling the truth about their lucid dreams?

Originally Posted by DawnEye11

Ohhh.Thanks for explaining it to me StephL. When I say I couldn't move I mean it felt like I was stuck in a position on the bed but I could tell I was still in the dream though because images would appear, the lighting in the room was different, there was something that wasn't in the room that was present and I would be in a different room than I slept in. I recall a time when I felt awake and was watching something squiggly and black moving but I couldn't move and my eyes felt like they were hard to keep open. I think that may have been real SP. I still have the old dream sign happen at times but less than before. I didn't want it to happen as a dream sign anymore because I didn't want something that was considered bad to be my dream sign.But what you said makes sense so i might start using it again. Thanks.

See if this sounds similar Dawn.

I have been caught between dream and real body on two occasions.

To start out with I was fully lucid, I was dreaming, became aware I was dreaming and then became aware I was losing the dream. On each occasion I pulled up my hands to attempt stabilization, but I had ZERO fingers and in one case only partial palms. I immediately slammed my palms together and began to rub them. Almost in the same instant I lost the dream world. (on a third occasion I never even made it this far as my real hands were moving in the real world and I woke instantly). So I'm in the void, I've been there before just rub your hands and wait and a new or similar world will return, I've returned from a few voids (and I don't count them as separate lucid dreams, they are part of the same dream including both worlds and the void). But what happened next was super lame I could feel my fingers and palms at first (even tho I saw ZERO fingers when I lost sight), I could hear my fingers rubbing they sounded super loud in fact, and I could feel the friction, and I was still 100% lucid, the problem was that after a few seconds I began to have my dream hands paralyze, and soon I could only move a few fingers against my left hand, in the end I was rubbing only my pinky finger against my paralyzed dream hand, I refused to give up but eventually I would lose, in the final 2-5 seconds I seemed to be lurching between dream and real paralyzed body. Once in the real world, I just move the tips of my fingers to break paralysis usually, but in these cases I seemed to lurch about (either in the dream, or the real world). All my 15+ minute dreams have involved surviving the void, I hope I'm not going to go thru this garbage again, I'll have to start using words like unparalyze now, dreamscape return now. In each of these two dreams I had just become lucid, and had failed to stabilize early.