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Place withheld · 2012-12-15 · from the DREAMVIEWS archive

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One night, I fell asleep in the bed with my laptop on my lap. Then I kind of woke up, but it was very different than usual. I could feel my physical body, even see something (the dim light of my laptop), but I could not move. Then I realized something, except for my usual "physical awareness" there was something else, like a dream construct, filled with fog, but it was a dream. Then immediately I had the thought "Yay! Let us have a lucid dream!". Then the fog went away, I was in a forest area, with a large path. My dream body "spawned", and I kind of dropped on the ground from something like a meter and immediately started running (against my will). I could control the direction of my running, I could look around with my head, but I could not stop. Then I tried the classic example of dream control: I shouted "there is a bunch of ninjas!" believing strongly that ninjas would appear but nothing. After that, I completely lost control. I was running towards a huge tree (against my will), so I pointed my hand towards it (that WAS my will) and I wanted to make it burn, to make myself passage. That did not work either, and I just woke up. The "dream construct" disappeared, and my physical body "gained priority" in my brain.

 

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