Inception-dreaming
I mentioned using this
Passionflower-supplement earlier, to get more vivid LD's. This was
not the case when I had the following LD though. This one I had totally "clean".
I remember I used the "clock-trick" and became aware in a big flat that I've never seen before. It looked like one of those old, really big, fashionable apartments - that used to take up a whole floor in older 18th-19th century buildings - with long corridors and 15 feet ceiling heights, etc. Anyway, while walking around there I smelled smoke, and then saw that the hallway to the front door was on fire, and I could
really feel the smoke in my lungs. I went for some windows and saw that, for some reason, there was fire outside them too. I felt slightly panicked, but reminded myself it was just a lucid dream, and tried to take control and wake myself up.
Now, this strange thing happened. Instead of waking up, I "woke up" in another lucid dream, with full memory of the previous one, with the apartment on fire. Now I found myself on a somewhat small fishing-boat on the sea, in the middle of the night, with an autumn-storm raging around me - and the boat was about to capsize. Not a particularly nice place to be - alone in the dark, wet, cold, and just about to drown. Now I felt quite panicked. Not from the storm, but from the fact that I didn't woke up IR, at my earlier attempt, and instead got "out of the frying pan, into the fire", so to speak.
I really tried to focus now, with full intention, to wake up, and tried to "bolt out of there". But, once again I failed, and was now in my
third lucid dream. This was not a frightening or threatening dream though. It was an ordinary street in an unknown town. But nevertheless it was really frightening because I begin to think I might never wake up anymore, and just bounce between dreams like this. I even entertained the thought that I might be dead. Anyway, I begun walking around the streets there and people that I met had slightly morphed features. Something like this>>
They didn't take notice with me, and I avoided contact, while thinking how I would get out of this. Then suddenly, I walked by a big store-window and tried to look in. In the window, though, I saw my own reflection, and
that, somehow resonated deeper in me. The "realness" of seeing myself and collect my thoughts around my body and self, instead of just the mind, somehow acted like a trigger, and I immediately woke up in my bed.
I felt really concerned that day - if this was something that would be an ongoing theme in my dreams, from now on. But luckily, the next night sleep, was totally dream-free (at least not caught in my memory).
One thing I thought about the day after, was that the dreams I had was a somewhat
Inception-like dream, in 3 layers. I wondered;
"iIf I get stuck in a dream sequence like that again, should I listen and try to hear Edith Piaf's - Non, Je ne regrette rien, and just wait for the "kick"??" ;)
Those of you who have seen the movie
Inception knows what I mean. :)