Thread: A brief history of my dreams

Hi everyone. I just thought I'd introduce myself and give a history of how I came to be here.

Several years ago I suddenly started getting sleep paralysis. I would always feel like something was holding me down and I would have an intense sense of terror. The first 2 times I honestly thought I was being abducted by aliens! But by the 3rd time I remember saying to myself "hold on, this has happened before" and I decided to try to enjoy it. It really gives me goosebumps now just thinking about it!

I looked it up on the web and came across lucid dreaming. Without really making any conscious effort, I was occasionally lucky enough to have lucid dreams but they would never last very long. One that I remember happened after I had walked home from the pub late one night. I dreamed that I was walking home again and this struck me as odd as I had only just done the walk in reality. I decided it must be a dream and managed to take control of it. I flew the rest of the way home like Superman but I think I must have gotten too excited over it and woke up.

Now to the present. I haven't had any interesting dream experiences in a few years (although I have a feeling I've had the paralysis quite a few times and forgotten about it). Out of the blue, I looked up lucid dreaming on the web last week and read quite a bit on this site. Then last night, I had so many amazing dreams that I have a good recollection of. In one of them I think i went into a place I used to work or an old school or something but once I got inside it was actually my parents' house. For some reason I was running around looking for a fire alarm when I thought "why am I doing this? There obviously isn't a fire alarm in my parents' house". That was when I realised that I must be dreaming but before I could do anything, my alarm went off and woke me up. I was really annoyed that I'd been woken up just as I started to take control of the dream. I looked at the time and it was 7:28. I thought that's a funny time to set an alarm as I'd usually set it for 7:30 but tried not to think about it and just went back to sleep. That was when I woke up for real and realised that was just a false awakening! I'd never experienced anything like that before and I'm going to be on the lookout for it from now on!

I hope that someone here finds some of this interesting. I love the intensity of these experiences. I've always kind of enjoyed nightmares just to see how far the terror can go. I'm interested in pushing it as far as it can go wether it's extreme pleasure or terror.

Ollie

weclome to the forums

your experiences are common to many and to have a flying dream like you did with not even trying is really good

Wow. Welcome to the forum. I've never heard of someone who wanted to intensify their nightmares. I think that because of this, you will be a great addition to Dream Views. I am so glad you have come to be here! If you need anything, feel free to pm me or another staff member.

Hey Cos - welcome!

Great to have you on board with us! As you've already seem to have experienced, reading up on lucid dreaming or thinking about it a lot can have a positive impact your chances of going lucid.

As far as pushing the "limit" in EITHER direction, I say... go for it It's a wonderful think knowing that there is a place we can go and do anything we want (or have anything done to us) and know there is no physical harm in any of it... just the experience!

Looking forward to hearing about your adventures.

A loooong time ago i do remember that in a dream something embarassing happened to me i cant remember what for some reason, and right when i started to feel embarassed i thought to myself hey its just a dream! It kinda goes to pieces there but i do remember running then jumping and the sensation of flying but then i woke up immediately after that.

Thanks for the great welcome everyone. I've actually just spent the last week camping at a music festival and had some pretty crazy dreams there. Nothing particularly interesting but one morning I woke up in my tent and couldn't work out where I was. I thought I was still dreaming as I've had dreams about festivals before. I was probably just still drunk from the night before ;^)

On that note, I drink quite a lot but still manage to have cool dreams. I'm only just getting back into lucid dreaming though. Thinking about it, I used to smoke cannabis and that was around the time I first got into LD. Dunno if drugs like this have any difference. I haven't touched anything like that in years and I've still managed to have the occasional LD lately.