@Tenly2009

5 years ago

Ok....so I’m in my early 50’s and thought I had had lucid dreams in the past (in my mid-30s) when I was on Chantix /Champix to try to quit smoking. The dreams I had back then were vivid and strange - and often I was aware that I was dreaming - but I’ve recently discovered that they were not actually “lucid” dreams. I’ve had my first 4 lucid dreams all in 2019 - and I’d like to have more - but I haven’t been able to figure out how exactly to trigger them. I never stayed in a dorm room back in my college days as college was close enough to home to commute - but in my first two lucid dreams, I was staying in a college dorm room with 2 or 3 room-mates. In the third, I was in downtown Toronto with Geri Ryan (the actress) who is not even in my top 10 of actresses. We were being chased and ended up hiding in the back seat of a car in what used to be a parking lot at Yonge/College (but is now a high rise condo). I had not even seen any TV or Movies with Geri Ryan in them in the recent past. (Next time I’d prefer it were Emily Wickersham if I get a choice!) After the 1st two experiences (about a week apart), I looked up lucid dreaming on YouTube and found that I should be able to exert more control over them and even fly. So, when I had my fourth one, about a month later - I tried leaping off the ground to see if I could fly and I did have the sensation of movement and I thought I was falling out of the chair I was asleep in - so got scared I was about to fall in real life and woke myself up. When I realized I was safe, I tried to get back asleep to rejoin the dream but was unable to. In all 4 cases, I was asleep in a reclining chair (not a bed) and they were afternoon naps where I had only slept for 2 hours or less. This seems to go against the conventional advice on YouTube about lucid dreams occurring around the 6-hour mark... Also, in every case (for me), the transition from normal dreaming to lucid dreaming was extremely noticeable. It was like a foggy/hazy dream, suddenly snapping into full clarity with what felt like all 5 senses connected normally. In the first 2 cases, I thought I had actually woken up - but then looked at a magazine cover and saw that the images on the magazine cover were animated (like a video playing). That was literally, the only clue I had that I was still in a dream. I was in my basement, and don’t own any magazines - but the fact that there was a magazine present did not alert me that anything was wrong. In fact my normal dream also had the same magazine in it - but without the animated cover - so it was almost like the lucid dream was a dream within a dream! (Inception anyone?) I don’t know where to go from here, but I’m really looking forward to the next one - and finding a way to make them happen more often and last longer when they do!

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