Paulo Miguel Gabuat / 17 / September kid

Thomasian Engineering Student
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Dream Journal Entry # 4

November 22, 2011, Tuesday,

I’ve had a couple of experience with lucid dreaming before. I’ve even written about it here. Thanks to those experience, I’ve grew fond of forcing myself to achieve lucidity while dreaming. For a month now, I’ve been training my body to grow a habit of certain things that might help me achieve this, and just this afternoon, I’ve had my closest attempt at attaining it.

I was tired and sleepy. It was cold, so I wanted to take a nap before I could do anything related to school work. Before I continue, I’ll just say that during this moment, I wasn’t trying to achieve anything. I wanted to rest, and that’s it. 

I laid down and closed my eyes. Before I knew it, I was slowly dreaming, but here’s the thing. You know those moments before sleeping where you imagine things or play random images, fantasies or memories in your head? I was doing that before actually sleeping. I always do that, but this time, while imagining things in my head, I had this shaking feeling. I can’t describe it actually, but it feels like falling and your whole body is paralyzed. 

I couldn’t move, but at that moment, I was clearly aware that I was drifting into a dream, but this time, since I was aware, instead of the usual fighting my mind to wake up, I calmed down and let whatever was unfolding unfold, and it felt extremely awesome. My body was constricted, but falling became flying at some point. I was so sure that I was going to achieve lucidity. 

After the feeling of falling, my dream started. I don’t remember any detail of it. I remembered some of it when I woke up, but I forgot it easily after a few hours. I should have written it down. Anyway, my dream started and despite not remembering it, I remembered that I was dreaming, but I wasn’t seeing anything. 

Everything was black, but I remembered hearing my dream. I was also still conscious of my body, so I couldn’t move. It was like listening to an audiobook. I wondered what was happening. I was conscious and I was in a dream, but I couldn’t control it whatsoever or even see it for that matter. I remained calm and tried to think of images in my head, but as soon as I did that, I woke up.

I didn’t accomplish lucidity, but that’s close enough. At least I learned how to not panic during dreams like this. 

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