Think I overloaded the lucid dream :(

Had a lucid dream this morning, but it felt like it wasn't really a very deep dream. In my WILDs I've been noticing different levels of my dreams which seem to depend on how deep the sleep is. They range anywhere from flashing images, to darkened settings in black and white, 2 dimensional movie-like dreams, color/blurry, and full color, hi-def dreams that seem like actual places. This dream was fairly vivid, in color so it looked O.K. but I think I wasn't sleeeping deeply enough yet. When I became lucid I just overloaded the thing. As soon as I went lucid, everything slowed down like someone hit the brakes and it started getting super unstable. I rubbed my hands and that made everything rev up like putting the pedal to the metal. The brightness went way up and things got sharper, but only momentarily. Then the whole thing started unravelling like it was going backward through all the previous stages, pretty weird. It was like the dream was too fragile and my presence in the dream overloaded it. I woke up very easily like I wasn't completely asleep. I these early stage dreams just can't be made lucid or are so unstable they don't last. That looks to me like a pitfall of the WILD process until I learn to master it. You have to be patient. So far for me, I need to be in the deep sleep dreams to have the best experiences with lucidity.

I've never experienced anything like that, but I wish I could, it sounds cool.

Rub hands together

SO MUCH CLARITY

Time speeds up

Couple of seconds later

Time slows down

Dull and dark

It was a really interesting demonstration for me of the principal of tactile sensation in lucid dreams. LaBerge who studied LDs and came up with a lot of what we know says that the visuals are one of the first things to go in lucid dreams, but the ability to have tactile sensations typically lasts longer which is why the hand rubbing usually works. I am really trying to understand how all of this stuff works, it's very interesting to be in this little laboratory doing these experiments and listening to other people's results.

it's very interesting to be in this little laboratory ????

I had one LD where I had just impacted into the back of a truck in a car and I said "NO" at that instant the dream ran backwards in time and I seen the car reform and snapped into a LD

Peter,

The laboratory comment I was refering to how LDs can be a place to experiment and try things that you couldn't normally do in waking life.

I had a similar experience to your truck impact backwards video. One time I closed my eyes trying to take a nap and before I fell asleep I had a color, hi-def movie image play of a group of soldiers in a damaged building with no roof, looked like a WW2 scene. High quality image. Then I saw the building blew up in perfect detail, then the video runs in perfect reverse, then in slow motion. That was really amazing. I have no idea where it came from, but the technology was impressive. Makes you wonder, how the heck do we make this stuff up with our brains?

its amazing what we can see and more so that it becomes normal to us. I have no idea how it happens either