Thread: A lucid dream where I actually touched something

Hi, this is my first post on this forum . A few nights back had a rather lucid dream, which in itself is nothing out of the ordinary for me, I seem to have them almost every other night, however this one was a wee bit stranger than my everyday ones.

I don't remember the entire theme, or even the setting (looking back, I wish I had written it down), I just remember that everything seemed incredibly normal. It was as if I was in the normal world, not in a dream, but something didn't quite seem right. I think what alerted me to actually dreaming was the misidentification of a persons face. The person who I was identifying with, i.e. the person who I knew it was, was not the person who I was looking at (if that makes sense, the whole doppleganger thing is quite a common theme in my dreams).

I remember everything in the dream feeling perfectly real, every single detail, apart from this one person, so automatically I thought I must be dreaming. The only difference was, whenever I realise I am having a lucid dream, I try to fly (sounds odd, but I always fly when lucid dreaming), but I couldnt, just like i would not be able to do on earth. I couldn't do anything of the stuff that I normally can when lucid dreaming.

This is where I creeped myself out. I decided to touch something that was next to me (a table) to prove I was dreaming, and I could feel it, I could feel the grain of the wood, I grabbed it and I could feel it solidly in my hand. I have never ever actually felt (in a very real way) anything in a dream before; ever. This dream felt so real (not in the tactile sense), and then when I grabbed the table it felt completely real, this time in a tactile sense. I couldn't figure out whether or not i was dreaming, until I actually woke up.

Everything in the dream was real, apart from this one person; everything. Whoever this person was, I can't seem to remember, their face was blurred (I think). The whole thing really creeped me out, I've never had a dream like that before...

I'm not quite sure what I want to know about this dream, I'm just looking for a couple of opinions, or perhaps similar experiences perhaps? The whole thing was mightily odd. Any views, thoughts, opinions would be greatly appreciated