Sparkwielder
13th November 2006, 03:37 AM
Here is something cool that happened to me last night.
I had this really frustrating bad dream that went like this.
I was leaving a job, and my co-workers and I went to a resturaunt to have my going away party. Everything was positive up to this point. I had a good relationship with the other workers (these were people that I knew in the dream, but not in real life), and my leaving that job felt positive.
Things went bad when the people I rode with left earlier than I did because someone else was supposed to arrive to bring me home later. When I tried to leave, I went out the wrong door. When I tried to go back inside, and then come out the correct door, I couldn't find it, and I kept ending up in the wrong place. I could not simply walk around the building to get to the place where my ride would be waiting; like it would be so easy to do in real life, because this wrong door actually let me out into a place that was like 20 miles away from where I should have been!
Finally I see a trail head that I recognised, and I realised that I could walk home on this trail, but it was getting dark and I would never make it in time. I started getting really worried, and very frustrated. I said to my self "This is such a rediculous dream! I am going to click my heals together three times, wake up, and be home. I don't need to resolve this stupid dream!"
I woke up first, but tapped my heals together three times just to make sure that I wouldn't fall back to sleep, and go back into that dream again.
I thought this was interesting to share in light of the fact that I have never had a concious lucid dream, or concious OBE, and I have only had a handful of spontaneous lucid dreams. This is the first time I have ever lucidly woke myself up to bail out of a nightmare. The other odd thing is that it was 30 years ago that I saw the Wizard Of Oz, so the advice of the Wizard to Dorothy was not fresh in my mind. It's strange that I remembered that.
I had this really frustrating bad dream that went like this.
I was leaving a job, and my co-workers and I went to a resturaunt to have my going away party. Everything was positive up to this point. I had a good relationship with the other workers (these were people that I knew in the dream, but not in real life), and my leaving that job felt positive.
Things went bad when the people I rode with left earlier than I did because someone else was supposed to arrive to bring me home later. When I tried to leave, I went out the wrong door. When I tried to go back inside, and then come out the correct door, I couldn't find it, and I kept ending up in the wrong place. I could not simply walk around the building to get to the place where my ride would be waiting; like it would be so easy to do in real life, because this wrong door actually let me out into a place that was like 20 miles away from where I should have been!
Finally I see a trail head that I recognised, and I realised that I could walk home on this trail, but it was getting dark and I would never make it in time. I started getting really worried, and very frustrated. I said to my self "This is such a rediculous dream! I am going to click my heals together three times, wake up, and be home. I don't need to resolve this stupid dream!"
I woke up first, but tapped my heals together three times just to make sure that I wouldn't fall back to sleep, and go back into that dream again.
I thought this was interesting to share in light of the fact that I have never had a concious lucid dream, or concious OBE, and I have only had a handful of spontaneous lucid dreams. This is the first time I have ever lucidly woke myself up to bail out of a nightmare. The other odd thing is that it was 30 years ago that I saw the Wizard Of Oz, so the advice of the Wizard to Dorothy was not fresh in my mind. It's strange that I remembered that.