Complicated lucid dream

[trenton]

This dream was really complicated and detailed, so I won't be able to remember everything. It was like I was creating multiple dreams simultaneously and jumping between dreams while being aware that I was dreaming and that I was able to have conscious influence over the dreams.

It started when I saw a monster that usually walks up to my bed during sleep paralysis, but this time it was a dream in which I was in bed, but not sleep paralysis. As the monster approached me and tried to grab me, the monster began to fade. I was able to see that that the monster was nothing. As I saw this more deeply, the monster eventually disappeared entirely.

This is when a different nightmare started to emerge. I recognized that I didn't like whatever it was that emerged, but I don't remember what it was. I recognized that that was also nothing. This nightmare also faded away.

This is when new dreams started taking the place of the nightmare. They were dreams about me being inside videogames. There was one cool videogame I never saw before and clearly wasn't star wars, but Darth Vader was a character anyway despite this video game being a totally separate universe from star wars. This was some kind of Sherlock Holmes investigation video game, but this time with Darth Vader. He used the force to push me through the floor of a tall building. I fell through several floors and didn't feel any pain despite being clearly wounded. At some point there was an unstable floor I landed on as a man yelled out for me to move. I didn't move because I felt lazy due to being asleep. The floor cracked and I fell through. I recognized that this was nothing and everything began to disappear.

A new dream emerged. It was another videogame. This time it was actual star wars. It looked like a video game I saw before. It was like star wars battle front. I played as a regular storm trooper while everyone else on my team played as an imperial engineer. I guess the strategy was to endlessly heal each other, but the shotgun is terrible at long distances so I used a blaster and thermal detonators instead. For some reason I started shooting everyone on my team so that they were nearly dead. This was before I realized I was on the empire team instead of the rebel team. We spent most of the match just running from the rebels. I recognized that this was nothing and everything disappeared.

Another dream emerged. This time I was in a Harry potter videogame. This was the goblet of fire and I was fighting Voldemort in the graveyard. It looks like it did in the actual videogame I beat. My sister played as Hermione who shouldn't be there, but she was there anyway. She was telling me that I was doing a crappy job of deflecting Voldemort's spells. I complained that this never happened last time I played this videogame. I eventually died and spawned at the previous checkpoint. My sister continued to tell me how much I sucked at this game. Eventually I tried again, doing much better this time as I defeated the skeletons rising from the graves. With Voldemort's defeat clear, I began to recognize this as nothing and it faded away too.

Another dream emerged. This time I was back in the Sherlock Holmes investigation video game, but this time Darth Vader was nowhere to be seen. I was in an old house looking for clues. I followed a dark corridor leading to a room with a bed sitting against the back wall. I moved the bed and discovered a trap door underneath. I crawled down the chamber until I ended up in digon alley from Harry potter. I was in some kind of ruined shop. I started looking for clues about the culprit with the red light saber and discovered some charred wood, possible caused by the lightsaber blade. I took the evidence and crawled back through the chamber. I was back in the abandoned house. I took one last look through the other rooms before leaving the house. I recognized This as nothing and the dream disappeared.

Another dream emerged. I was back in Harry potter. This time it was the prisoner of Azkaban and I was being chased by a hoard of dementors as I fled on a broomstick. This was not the Quiddach scene from the movie though. As they tried to steal my soul, I skillfully pressed the PlayStation buttons at just the right time to dodge them. I eventually ended up on the ground facing off against Malfoy outside of Hogwarts. We started having a wizard duel, but I ended up losing and had to respawn at the previous checkpoint. I did the dementor chase again, this time doing worse than last time, but I realized I was supposed to also charge magic and fight back while dodging them. I ended up at the Malfoy duel again. I recognized This as nothing and the dream disappeared.

I ended up back at the Sherlock Holmes investigation in which I was fighting Darth Vader. Darth Vader pushed me through the same floor as he did before. I ended up at the part with the man yelling at me to move. This time I wasn't lazy and I started moving. The floor broke even more and I realized I would take more damage if I tried to move. I fell through the final floor and safely landed on the bottom with no pain. I found myself at the bottom floor of the badly damaged building. A red lightsaber ignited in the darkness as Darth Vader emerged from the shadows. I stood up defiantly prepared to face off in the final battle. Darth Vader stood up on a ledge and used the force to start throwing rubble at me. I started running around the room doing rolls and flips to dodge as I hid behind rocks. There was one final puzzle I needed to solve. I needed to find weaknesses in the building to cause a ton of rubble to fall on top of Darth Vader, defeating him. I looked for weak pillars, beams of wood, and rope that I could manipulate to collapse the ceiling. Luckily Darth Vader stood in the exact same spot the whole time rather than Chase me with the lightsaber, leaving him weak to these tactics like a videogame boss would do. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see the end of this fight because it would have been epic. I recognized This as nothing and the dream faded. It would have been cool if Harry potter showed up at the last minute on the broomstick to fly me away from the collapsing building.

I was back in my bed. I saw my grandma walking around my bedroom and taking things out of the closet. She was setting up all these board games and for some reason the instructions were glued to the ceiling. She took the board games and set them by my bedside. She then stood over my bedside and started smiling at me kind of like how people and monsters do to me during sleep paralysis and it gets creepy. I found that this wasn't sleep paralysis because I could move my body. I started calling out to her. She stood still silently. I started moving around and looking around the room. The instructions were still glued to the ceiling and my grandma was still standing there staring at me. I started sitting up completely as my grandma started fading away. This reminded me of some of my past hallucinations when I thought I saw my sister standing by my bedside smiling at me but actually it was a monster. I looked carefully as my grandma faded away and then all I saw was the curtain by my window. The instructions on the ceiling were gone and I was now awake with no more hallucinations.

During the dreams I also tried to recognize that I was nothing and physical reality was a hallucination. It didn't work. It is easier to become conscious that dreams are illusions than it is to realize physical reality is a dream and I am God. It was worth a try though. I feel like I didn't sleep well and feel a bit groggy. I ended up laying in bed for a while before getting up to type this out. I hope you enjoy reading this.

[integration journey]

Is it easy for you to lucid dream with no technique or do you use the technique of getting up in the middle of the night and going back to sleep? 

[trenton]

@integration journey I wasn't trying to lucid dream and I didn't know there were techniques I was supposed to be using.

I have had similar experiences before at my other house. I noticed in my previous lucid dream that I was also jumping between dreams. In those dreams I noticed I had some control over time and I could rewind the dream. That was also a very complicated lucid dream. It involved a cross over between Zelda, the Simpson's, and more sleep paralysis monsters. I'll try to describe that one too.

at first I was in my bed and there was a monster standing by my bedside. This time the monster was my grandma and she was a vampire. I ignored it and instead closed my eyes, going back to full sleep from sleep paralysis.

I then ended up in a dream where my bed started tilting up. I was able to reverse time before I finally let time carry on. The bed tilted up until I fell into a black hole that took me to a secret chamber. There were more skeletons and redeads from Zelda in there. I saw a bunch of statues in this long hallway. They looked like people paralyzed by the monsters. I became one of the frozen statues as I stood in the hallway. I stood "helplessly" as an elephant ran through the hallway and started crushing all the statues. It was obvious to me that all the statues would be crushed except me. That is what happened. The dream then disappeared.

I ended up in a new dream where it looked like I was in the Simpson's. I was in an amusement park with lots of people having fun. I was not having fun though. I felt an uneasy sense of impending danger in the false safety. I went in an obstacle course with people jumping into these dark pits and dying but nobody paid much attention to that and just moved on. I finished the course until I ended up outside some kind of mansion. I laid out on one of those sunbathing chairs you are by pools. I silently looked to the sky contemplating what this fear and uneasy feelings might be coming from. Meanwhile other Simpson's characters observed me from the windows, but even Nelson decided to leave me alone. The Simpson's dream continued with some kind of ancient burial ground. There was a witch cackling as she formed a vortex that formed into another mansion. I once again started manipulating time, but eventually I let time proceed. eventually it all disappeared.

I then woke up in a sleep paralysis episode again. This time I saw some kind of demonic symbol levitating above my body. I tried to cry out for help, but my vocal cords were weak due to the paralysis. Then someone came into my room. I thought it was my sister because she was the only one home. She started standing by my bedside smiling at me. I continued to make weak cries until the symbol disappeared. I noticed I could move and talk again. I looked at my sister and started thanking her. It was something like "hey Brieanna, thanks for helping! Brieanna! Brieanna!? Brieanna?" I sat up and the hallucination disappeared. I then realized that the hallucination looked more like a man than a woman. Apparently this kind of confusion is common in sleep paralysis.

I used to sleep perfectly fine until the doctors started changing my medication. I now have more problems sleeping along with some withdraw affects. Maybe this is causing these complicated lucid dreams when I'm not even trying to have them.

[Human Mint]

10 hours ago, trenton said:

For some reason I started shooting everyone on my team so that they were nearly dead.

Lol.

Actually enjoyed reading. Looks like you play a lot of videogames 

I have some weird hallucinations of my cats sometimes. I don't see them since january 2024, and it happened to me that I could physically feel them, but then realized I was fading in and out a dream state.

I had a dream of my granmother too last year. She passed 5 years ago. In the dream she assured me she was always present, and I could hug her for a last time. Kind of amazing stuff.

Edited February 2 by Human Mint

[abrakamowse]

I used to have a lot of times sleep paralysis as a teenager but not anymore and only once I had a lucid dream but it was spontaneous.

I am trying now some techniques but not luck yet hehehe... interesting experiences.

:-)

[trenton]

@Human Mint I have a mixed relationship with videogames. The truth is that I love playing videogames and I'm really good at them. I played them a lot in my childhood.

Once I was an adult and I started doing personal development, I then started thinking to myself that although videogames are fun they don't provide tangible value in terms of life purpose. I forced myself to stop playing videogames even though I loved them because I thought I was supposed to read all these self help books and build a compelling purpose.

What ended up happening is I replaced videogames with social media. I watch a bunch of YouTube, look at this forum, and at some point porn which I also forced myself to stop watching and I had a journey with that. I ended up sinking a lot of hours into this stuff and I judged myself for not doing enough career building. At the same time I felt lost in life anyway no matter what I tried.

I wanted to start playing videogames again, but I also have a book I'm working on. I am almost done with the introduction because I started it recently. It is a project for building around my life purpose. I'm not sure how I will balance these things once I add videogames.

[abrakamowse]

@trenton  I think video games come help too in some ways, because I more and more feel that what we are experiencing is also like a video game... hehehe... we try to imitate life and probably consciousness in ways that we don't know...

there's a childhood song that reminds me of that always... row row row your boat.. and you know how it ends... life is a dream, a game...