Lucid Nightmare
My Lucid Nightmare
My last dream, which took place on 13th of January 2013, was a lucid nightmare whereby I dreamt of, but I lacked control of my experience. I can hardly recall choosing to surrender control during that moment; everything just occurred suddenly. The measure led to random occurrence that had been depicted in similar lucid dreams that instilled suspense and horror (Genghis, 2007). The reason why I categorise it as a lucid nightmare is because during the dream I was under pursuit by some evil forces that had drowned me close to death. Since the dream had extreme violence, it was almost the same as a non-lucid nightmare. This suggests the state of the brain where the judgment is confused with real events (Mohr, 1993).Unlike horror movies and experiences, the experience drove comfort, as opposed to threatening nightmares (Belanger & Dalley, 2006). The dream was much better. The dream was quite enlightening. I was still vibrant because I had turned lucid and the progress after that seems like a movie in a three dimensional magnificence.
My dream appeared when I was walking along the pavement in my school at night. Moments later, my vision zoomed in concentration and I could listen to cicadas in trees. Then I met with a man who seem to be my principal. The man asked me if I could help him to find what we had talked about earlier. I rejected the man’s request and said that I had already found the thing. However, something ringed in my mind that that was some intuitive offering to point something to me.
I took a walk to a building in search of my friends whom I had not seen for several years. After meeting my friend, we sat on the pavement, and I asked him questions regarding his progress in life. All of a sudden, the vision of the hill vanished and we were than subjected in an ocean. My friend told me that he had been designing a submarine for a number of years and he hardly knew how to show it. He showed me some of his designs through the dream. In my dream, I see him as a scientist who was studying the ocean. Suddenly, it changed to a dark sea in school. Meanwhile, an old friend came to us and gave us a warning that something nasty would happen to us. We decided to take a walk down an alley next to a river. It was still dark. I was lucid, and I knew it although I could hardly control my dream. I got the feeling that a story was narrated to me by my intuitive state of mind and that I was ready to listen to the story.
My friend then told me to climb a metal fence that was ten foot high. He wanted to look at the building. Before I started to climb the fence, something pushed me as though there was an enormous burst of air below me. I landed on the opposite side of the fence safely. Once I landed on the other side, I started wondering what I would do next, when a skinny man came out in a charging stance through the fence.
My dream entailed self-awareness. My subconscious mind played a significant role while I was dreaming. Bulkeley (1999) explains that dreams are illusions of the subconscious that toy with emotions. When my subconscious mind decided to have some anxieties, I had the nightmare. When I got lucid, my perception of the upcoming events was heightened. While this took place, I still knew that I was dreaming, and the dream looked real. Then I was drowned in the dream.
My interpretation of the dream for my friend’s part meant that he would be successful in the future and would become a rich man. This is because he presented to me a plan of the submarine that he had designed.
References
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