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Hello ...

I hope to find an experienced dreamer who is able to share some experience. Lucid dreaming came into my life when I was 15 and until now I've made many astonishing experiences - some had to do with OBEs and Astral Projections.

I did not succeed to induce a Projection directely from the waking state - even though I've practiced for about 5 years now - but I've found a way to handle this: Using lucidity to start.

In the last 4 months I wasn't able to practice much and I've probably lost much of my power ... I'm a soldier now and most of the time not able to sleep long enough to start anything. But even the few lucid dreams I've had confirmed my former experiences ...

I've discovered that my lucid dreams always go hand in hand with the phenomenom of the so called "false awakening". Everytime I'm lucid, I do not awake regularly when the time has come. It seems as if I always wake up in another dream before I awake completely. These "other" dreams are never lucid ones and look exactely like the average ones which everybody knows. They also oftenly tend to imitate the room in which I'm sleeping, so that I'm usually totally confused when I finally wake up.
If I try to project in a lucid dream I oftenly find myself again in the same position (even the same place!) after the projection ended, before I awake in the unconcious dream and later in "reality". Once I've had a chain of false awakenings which had about 5(!) stations which I recognized everytime I passed. The last station was the one in which I've found myself with the highest concoisness I've ever experienced in a dream.

Sometimes most of the later borders (the ones after the state of lucid dreaming) are not strictly devided by false awakings but I can not remember one recent lucid dream without the final FA.

Some people say that the farther you are out, the more false awakings you have - but being "farther out" must have something to do with conciousness as well if this theory is correct. I've experienced an increasement of lucidity and conciousness everytime I became lucid (of course!) and also sometimes again when I projected out of this status. Sometimes - the border between LD and projection seems to be more flexible than the one between LD and average dram.

Is anybody able to explain this ... would be interesting for me because these events just feel amazingly funky and occur so often that I cannot see them as pure products of my dreamy phantasy anymore - there has to be a "scientific" explanation ... I will do my own research on that topic after my time in the army is over (6 months remaining!) - but at the moment it's quite difficult.  

Thanks and greetings from Germany!

why did you decide to look for a girl you actually dont know? It would be easier to look for someone you do know and can speak about it after the dream! Cause I am like you very curious in what he/she will say!

but what did you mean with a trick you saw in the matrix? What trick?

Let me know

(I'm form holland...so you'r late still awake heah? just like me

Hmm... Well, the best way to realize you're dreaming is to find incongruencies with reality in your dream. Like, if there's a big floating boulder over the ocean, that's a pretty good sign. The reason most people don't realize they are dreaming is because when they fall asleep they kind of fantasize about this or that, and then they forget they're only fantasizing. The longer you fantasize, the more "real" it becomes. So if you can, try to do things like be aware of everything in the dream, walk around, look at everything in detail. If you're flying, ask yourself how you're doing it. Be careful though, sometimes your dream will make up a reason. Like, you'll suddenly realize you're staring at a computer screen playing a video game or something. Then your surroundings will change and you'll "remember" where you are.

One other method you can use is looking at your hands in the dream. They say once you do this, you realize you're dreaming.

Bear in mind that it is important to practice these techniques in real life in order for you to remember these techniques in your dreams.