Hi I’m new here
I’d like to ask you about my first lucid dream, which I had last night (I have been trying for about a week now and it was fantastic to actually get one).
In my dream, I was in my house. From what I remember my sister’s old boyfriend was in the house and seemed very out of place.
“What are you doing here? You shouldn’t be here. She dumped you ages ago.” Then the thought, He’s out of place here, suddenly triggered the realisation that it was a dream. The night before I had been reading LeBerge’s book, the very chapter on how to recognise an LD and it must have sunk in
But then, when I realised I was dreaming, it triggered the whole wave of excitement thing, and I felt myself losing the dream (it felt like a TV signal snowstorm) so I remembered that I should roll over on the floor. But then things went kind of odd. Sorry but this is going to be tricky to explain but here goes…
I had the sensation that I was in 2 places at once, and felt that I had control over my physical body as well as my dream body. For example, I felt control over my eyelids, and could open my eyes and see the real world but when closing them sure enough I’d be back in my dream reality, able to move around. It was like being able to switch between the real and dream worlds at will, for a few times.
Was my “real” body actually real, or was this also a dream body? It felt real, and I could even do stuff like knock on my back wall, but my muscles were slowed down and I couldn’t knock hard.
My best guess is either that
a) the whole thing was a dream or
b) when I was waking up upon realising I was dreaming it caused me to come far enough out of the dream to gain control of my real body, and when I quickly reentered the dream I still had the control. I tried some cool stuff like flying like superman and I managed to do it although some stuff in my dream still didn’t make a lot of sense.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on what happened, and if anyone has similar experiences! thanks.