This is a long story but I’d like to tell it here as it is all about FA’s.
One night few weeks ago, for some reason I went to sleep earlier than usual. It took me a long time to fall asleep and when I did, I woke up almost instantly.
I got up from my bed and went to drink some water. The light on the stairs next to my room was off. I thought I had left it on when I went to sleep but my little sister who was sleeping on the next room must have turned it off. I left the light on again, got back to my bed and was feeling quite tired. When I relaxed on my bed I felt a little weird and had some kind of rush of thoughts and imaginary sounds. It was pleasant and interesting. I fell asleep.
I had a short FA where I got up from my bed and went to sit on my desk about to turn the computer on. But then I woke up realising it was a dream. (This wasn’t as simple as that, you’ll see later… )
I was getting frustrated for not being able to sleep. I went to turn the light off, maybe it was disturbing my sleep as it illuminated my room too a bit. I saw my little sister on the stairs going to her room. I went back to bed and got some more sleep.
Again I woke up after a while, not feeling very tired so I went to listen to the radio. I sat there for a while listening to the music and relaxing, and then I woke up!
I realised it had all been a dream, I never woke up for real since I first went to sleep! I was laughing at myself, what a fool was I to let my dreams deceive me. I tried to make sense of it, I had a dream where I went to sleep and had a FA! (But it get’s even more complicated, read on… ) I thought this would be a great chance for some LD’s. If I would wake up again I’d be sure to do a RC. So I went back to sleep feeling happy and confident that I’ll have some great LD’s tonight.
I fell asleep, and sure enough, I woke up again. I sat on my bed looking out of the window, wondering if it was a dream. Then two of the stars on the sky began to move, they came closer and I realised it was a spaceship, a UFO! At that point I was sure it was a dream, got up from my bed and started running downstairs shouting “Take me with you!”, jumping on the stairs and acting all crazy. I was so happy to be lucid again. Usually UFO’s are frightening in my ND’s but this time I knew they can’t hurt me. (I’m not afraid of UFO’s or aliens in RL…but then again I’ve never met them there like in my dreams) When I got outside the UFO was gone. There was only darkness. Then my dad came outside and said he wanted to play croquet with me. So we did. It was cold and I had only my t-shirt ans shorts on, but I didn’t worry as I knew it was a dream. Then I felt the dream fading, and woke up again.
This time I was really confused, and amused at the same time. I again realised, I hadn’t woke up since I first went to sleep! The first time when I woke up from listening to the radio, had also been a dream. Everything that I had dreamed was so vivid and real, it gave me shivers. But this was reality, I was now truly awake for the first time that night, there was no question about it. When I was dreaming, I couldn’t tell the difference but now I could. I had to clear my thoughts and try to make sense of it all again.
To make it short, I had a dream where I woke up, went back to sleep, had a dream FA, woke up, went back to sleep, woke up, then woke up again, went back to sleep, had yet another FA and a LD, then woke up again, this time for real. I know it sounds unbeliveable but that’s exactly what happened.
How is this possible? Isn’t REM sleep supposed to occur later on the night? I had a very continuous dream about waking up and falling back to sleep again. The only black spots that I don’t remember are when I thought I had some sleep in my dream.
Anyway, this was one of the coolest things I’ve experienced so far on my LD journey. I wish I could have a dream like that again.