I had my first lucid dream. And something happened.

[SleepGOTweird]

Ok. I was in sleep paralysis, (I said, "oh man, not again), like, the second time this week. I was afraid to go into it because of demons and angry ghosts that I have been hearing from people. But for some reason my fear was gone.

I thought someone could be watching me, because I know that's what people feel in this state, although I don't know if that was the case, maybe I was just influenced.

Anyway, I asked for protection, I asked for love. I got a jolt of yellow energy, and a warm feeling. I tried to have an out of body experience, or so I told myself.

I found myself back in paralysis. I remember reading that imagining your escape like flapping your arms like a bird helps. I did that, and I imagined myself flying up to the ceiling. Telling myself that I needed to get through. I started to realize that I was not having an OBE, but a lucid dream.

I said!...regretfully...I should have sex! How embarrassing right? I imagine a girl, and before I could do anything...a man appears in my vision. He has this evil looking grin. He was sitting, wearing a suit, with slick back hair...maybe not. Just some type of hair ok?

I go up to him, thinking he was a demon or something, asking if there was a price to pay for doing that kind of stuff in a dream. He said "Yeah", and I said "Well screw that! I don't want a deal with a devil", he then said, "It's not worth it, I mean, look at her face."

I felt threatened by his presence and thought of someone with great powers. I imagined Neo from the matrix and started fighting him, in this large, old dusty room. Others appeared, or maybe I imagine them to make things more interesting, or expected something like that to happen. I beat him pretty easily.

Anyway, the rest is foggy, and I had some false awakenings. All I know is, that when I woke up, the feeling of reality and dreaming blurred a bit and...wow.

I told my mom about it, and about that "man". I didn't tell her that I planned to have sex in my dream, but everything else. She said that maybe he was my guardian angel, and that he was thinking what in the hell I was doing.

I thought of him as something I wouldn't turn my back to, but could it be possible that he was there to protect me? Because his words made me stop my actions. It's got me wondering.

Right now I am both terrified and excited about sleep and lucid dreaming. I don't want the fear anymore. I'm tired of it.

What do you guys think?

[Beekeeper]

Sleepgotweird, here's the thing, lucid dreaming is still dreaming and, therefore, subject to subconscious processes. Even in a really great, really controlled lucid dream sex can emerge as a theme without you setting out to have a LD of this nature. This is natural enough as sex is an instinctive impulse and we typically repress such desires as we've been socially conditioned to do.

I feel your dream is simply reflecting your conflicting feelings about the process of lucid dreaming. On one hand, you feel it should be something engaged in for spiritual purposes and, on the other, you realise that it offers you incredible freedom that you would not normally pursue in waking life. Remember that the dream world is thought responsive. You desired love and protection and manifested it; you feared demons and you manifested "a demon" or, at least, something ambiguous, perhaps because you had asked for protection so your mind wouldn't allow you to create something truly evil. He resulted when you expressed a subconscious desire for sexual experience because your conditioning causes you to see sex of this kind as illicit and, therefore, evil. He is a dream character and you created him.

[SleepGOTweird]

I remember saying to myself..."What can I do...what can I do...Hey, maybe I can have sex? That's something."

I'm not saying you're wrong. But I remember that that it was a choice from what I can remember.

[Beekeeper]

Well, then it was a conscious choice. Was there a sense that it was an unworthy one?

[SleepGOTweird]

Well, I knew it was a selfish choice of pure pleasure. But I am also a very paronoid person, and that I am always looking over my shoulder. In real life, nothing is there, but in a dream, who knows.

Maybe that's why it appeared. All I know is, it was sitting behind a couch, it was watching me, it looked intense, and I suddenly thought that it was leasing this experience at a price. I asked it a question and I really knew that when it appeared that I wouldn't dare do anything while it was there.

Although I defeated it and other things, pretty easily and with a lot of flare (matrix stuff), the thought of it is creeping me out. If that stuff is going to be materialized every single time I try to lucid dream, then maybe for the sake of being sane, I should fight paralysis and wake up. The next battle with my imagination may not be a winning one because of the overuse of a trick. I can't just think I'm Neo to get out of a situation. Ha.

I woke myself up to be sure that I had a lucid dream from the first time in my life. I was excited. I really wanted another one right then and there because of all the possibilities. Finding truth, having fun experiences of my imagination (i'll never think of sex again! In a dream!)

But If I can only get over this fear. Sometimes I wish I didn't read all the stories of "dwellers", "demons" and such. It scares me... :cry:

[Jaco]

What did you feel about this guy, did you feel that he did not belong in your dream?
I had a couple of lucid dreams that I met entities who gave me the feeling of not belonging in my dream. The feeling appeared right after my dreams became lucid. Those things felt different from people created with my imagination, for example they gave "intruder" like feeling and I couldn't make them disappear.
Did that felt like that?

[SleepGOTweird]

I don't know. I definitely didn't want him there. It did give an "intruder" sense, because I felt afraid and threatened. The way he looked...it wasn't the normal demon figure that I would think up you know? I was like, "holy crap! Who is this guy!?"

I took him on in a fight and got him to leave. What I liked most about the dream was that I felt godlike. I was aware that I could imagine the strength that I wanted. I knew I could win.

I can't stop thinking about the man though. Was he my imagination? Was he not? A demon? Some spirit? It doesn't matter now I guess.

[Jaco]

I can't stop thinking about the man though. Was he my imagination? Was he not? A demon? Some spirit? It doesn't matter now I guess.
You're right it doesn't matter now. Forget about the guy. At most I think about such entities that they are annoying, at most I repeat. When I wake up from such dream I sigh, turn on the other side and go back to sleep.
Don't worry about the dream, be positive. Use some protection if you need to, whatever rises your self confidence and makes you feel safe is useful. Being frightened and uncertain won't help you much.
Be positive. :)
Well, that's just an advice. :)

[SleepGOTweird]

:)

[Martin]

Well SleeptGOTweird, and all other people who question sleep paralysis, I kind of envy you. I have never been in a state of complete body numbness. I can be in altered states and meditate, but if I try I can always move myself and pull myself out of it fairly easily. Now is this a good or a bad thing I wonder?

[CFTraveler]

It just means that you have to work (and I don't mean work) more on not going to sleep when your body goes to sleep. How long can you meditate without falling asleep?