7/16/2024
Had a spontaenous lucid dream, last night but it was very different than previous dreams. In most lucid dreams I try to prolong the state of the dream, but in this one I felt trapped in it.
I woke up in my bedroom in my childhood home, but it was unnaturally dark. Everything was blurry and foggy, making it extremely difficult to tell where I was. I stood up and checked my phone, my alarm clock and then my laptop, but they were all completely dead. I felt very uncomfortable in the room and felt like something bad was about to happen.
I performed my favorite reality check (trying to breathe while plugging your nose) and I could breathe through my nose. I was shocked because I felt a lot more aware than I usually was in dreams, and repeated it maybe 3 or 4 times, confirming I was definitely dreaming. I tried to change my enviornment and move things around but everything was responding how the room felt, dead and lifeless. I couldn't do a thing no matter how hard I tried.
I hear the entire house shake and I knew somehow something enormous is nearby. I become scared and I want to wake up. I start shouting at myself to wake up, I close my eyes and spin around, and open them, but to my shock I am in the exact same enviroment (this sort of enviornment stability is really unusual in dreams).
I feel an urge to escape, and as I start to become more worried, the room starts to close in around me, and the shaking intensifies. I dive into the floor to try and escape. I remember how weird it felt for my head and arms to pass through the floor, but it wasn't seemless like a ghost passing through a wall, it felt awkward and like I had to sort of crawl into the floor, but once my entire body passed I felt nothingness and started freefalling.
The environemnt changes and it's honestly hard to describe the vividness. I'm now flying incredibly fast through this vast space, that is filled with rainbow colored geometric fractals, they are spinning all around me and I see tendrils of yellow light swirl around me as I'm spinning and falling faster. I eventually come out through the floor again in the same room and try to wake myself up again. Which I do.
This was a really trippy experience, and it felt very different from other dream experiences I've had, a lot more realistic.