I BECAME LUCID!!!
dances round the room in a fit of joy
Now, before we all open the champaigne (sp?) and celebrate, I’d just like to point out that it almost seams like a freak happening, and I don’t know if it was caused by my preset or even whether I’ll be able to do it again soon. But here’s what happened…
I took a Vitamin B Complex, and then went to sleep about 11:30pm. I then woke up by my watch alarm at 4:30am. I then listened to my new Wakeful Dreaming Experiment 1 preset. I fell asleep listening to this, but then I woke up once my brain realised that it sounded different because the pink noise had faded out.
So I decided to switch my computer off, and went back to bed and put my ear plugs in (so that if I did dream, I wouldn’t be woken up by other sounds). Then, as I was drifting off, I interrupted my falling-asleep-process several times with the question, “Am I dreaming?”
Then the next thing I know, I had what I now know to be a false awakening, where I woke and thought I had taken my ear plugs out in my sleep. I then felt like I was on the bordering state with sleep (even though I now know I was actually asleep and dreaming all this), so I decided to imagine a visual scene. I decided to imagine that I was stood looking out my window.
Next thing I know, I’m stood at my window looking out, and I know it’s a dream immediately because everything looks totally different out there. It was a fantastic scene! At first the sky was bright red and purple like the craziest sunset you’ve ever seen. Then, as I focussed on a different part of the scene, it changed to a summer day, and it was so beautiful. The scene was coming in and out of focus before my eyes, and buildings were forming in place as I looked at them. Lovely big country mansions in green fields.
then I had thoughts of sex, even though I wasn’t in the mood for it at all. Then my memory of my dream becomes a bit blurry from this point on. A naked woman appeared, but my “equipment” (down there) wouldn’t work, because I just quite clearly wasn’t in the mood at all.
Then I think I had another false awakening, but I’m not sure. Or I dreamed that I almost awoke or something. Anyway, somehow I managed to get myself back into a lucid dream, and this time I was sat on my bedroom floor, with my dad sat to my right and the naked girl sat to my left. She kept feeling me - at my request oddly enough, because I just wasn’t in the mood at all.
Then I woke up to find my ear plugs were still in.
Now, I’m not entirely certain what part of what I did caused my lucid dream, or whether it was the strange combination of everything. I wonder whether my brain being taken down to those frequencies beforehand did something to help, I don’t know. I just wanted to record here that a lucid dream did happen, and these were the conditions it happened under. Brainwave Generator was part of the process, but whether it was an active part, I really don’t know.
It’s definately true what they say though, you do get an extatic rush when you realise that you’re lucid dreaming. The weird thing was, I didn’t even need to do any reality checks. I just somehow knew that once something strange happened that I was dreaming. I didn’t even go through those thought processes, I just knew straight away.
The whole thing was worth it just for that wonderful scene that unfolded outside my window while I looked on. I’ve never seen anything like it in my whole life, and I can’t even remember it properely, but it was all worth it because I can remember exactly what it felt like to look at it.
Now I’m really not sure where to go next with this, because I don’t know whether my preset worked or failed, because I can’t honestly tell you how this happened. I don’t know whether to repeat the exact same process again next time, or whether to abandon the presets or to update them or what. I really don’t know.
Perhaps I should try the exact same thing next time and see what happens then. Then I’ll know whether or not this was just a complete fluke.
OR, maybe I could modifity it so that it purposefully wakes my up once it has taken me down to 4.5Hz? Maybe that’s the key? Maybe going down there briefly helps to have a lucid dream if you then fall asleep afterwards? I don’t know. Clark, could you please test this one out in the same I did and report back? I’d be really grateful if you could. Sleep for 5 hours, wake up, listen to it, then if you wake up while listening to it, go back to sleep and say to your self at odd broken intervals, “Am I dreaming?” See if it works.
Ed.