Hi, I’m a newbie to the whole lucid thing, I had a very odd dream experience and decided I’d try to figure out what was up, low and behold I discovered lucid dreaming(worships the internet). I’ve only had a few lucid dreams and one very odd experience I think may have been an OOBE. Mostly I dream in third person, like seeing a movie, and I often think that I am dreaming but the experience is vague and kind of thin. Just like i’m envisioning a regular day dream. There are some dreams I have that are very rich and they are always in first person but they are few and far inbetween and most rare are my lucid dreams which I had so much fun with, and would like to have more of.
My questions to you pros out there is how you got started as a lucid dreamer, how old you were when you got your first and whether not it was a spontaneous thing or something you trained yourself to do. What kind of experiences do you have in your lucid dreams, which mode of view do you ususaly see in? And I think most important, how do you define lucidity?
With that up in the air, i’ll talk about a couple very odd experiences I’ve had with dreams. I was in a lucid dream where I was walking toward a hall in house i’ve never been in before. It was luxurious, there was a party going on outside in the back, where an inground pool was and a jacuzi. Butlers walked around holding trays of caviar and champagne and I only recognized a couple of people. One, my cousin Jesse who is a good friend of mine and two, his wife’s young sister, Britney. Anyways, I decided that I didn’t want to participate in the party and instead made my way down a long sterile white hallway, set far off from the house’s western wing. The hallway came to a room, all white, a simple wooden table with a piece of paper was on it. I picked it up and read a word “Chasm”. There was only that word, but I decided I wanted to read further, and faster… I kept reading more and more instances of the word ‘Chasm’ on the piece of paper until I was reading it off the paper into the air, on the walls until everything was covered with the black word ‘chasm’ so much so that there was no light at all, just darkness. I had a large spike of fear as I felt like I was falling into what this word represented.
I woke up from that but found myself in sleep paralysis. I stayed that way for 10-15 minutes and then something even more insane happened, I started moving horizontaly out of my body, my room, and into more darkness. I felt like I was in warp speed, which seemed to last forever. I came to a crashing halt in the room of my step brother, who was meditating and chanting some odd mantra. I was seeing through what seemed kind of like binoculars, a faded out, narrow view. I kept moving (in my point of view, which it seemed it was all I was) closer and closer to him and as I did his body began to twitch and looked uncomfortable. For whatever reason I then decided to abandon my ‘Dark View’. And came zooming backwards, back into my body where I waited another 5 minutes to escape sleep paralysis.
Now, I spoke to my step brother after the event the next evening. I asked him if he was meditating that night and he told me he was. He also said he felt an ‘odd presence’. Now, thats good enough for me, and its quite scary to think that this really did happen. Alot of me wants to believe it was just a lucid dream, because it was quite an unnerving experience. Its the only experience of its kind i’ve had in dream state. I didn’t think it was possible to achieve it out of a lucid dream (I’ve had similar experiences meditating and on LSD)
Anyway, I am new here. And I really like your little community. My name is Brandon and I think I’ll stick around for awhile and see what I can learn to control my lucidity and/or OOBE skills from you pros out there.
Thx for your time.
-Void