I have a hard time understanding why that would happen if you are truly lucid in your dreams. Maybe you just aren't completely lucid. Do you remember seeing very well at the time?
Kozzi
There are many levels of lucidity... like during daytime. Just try to be as lucid as you can during daytime; more "present" in whatever you do; more aware of what's going on around you. And see if it changes your LDs... It also takes will-power, intent...
Repeat many times during the day what you intend to day in your LD... Use your will. By example: next time you become lucid, where-ever you are, let yourself fall back and don't worry about hitting the ground...
>>> By example: next time you become lucid, where-ever you are, let yourself fall back and don't worry about hitting the ground...<<<
--this usually leads to a RTZ projection for me:)
I`ve also found that falling in a lucid dream brings on an actual projection.I believe the important thing is to completely let go;like Nagual said "don`t worry about hitting the ground."Another technique that works for me is levitating in a dream.I find that if I keep hold of a strong intent to project before the onset of the dream it usually works.
Happy Trails
The other night, I did become lucid in my dream. I was walking through this neighborhood and looked up at the sky and saw a lighted disk ufo thing(that had a bad dark feeling attached to it). I said to myself, didn't I tell myself before I went sleep that if I saw a ufo, then I am awake inside of a dream.
This was the cue I was looking for because I started to float up. As I started to float up, I thought good, now I can go to California, and demanded to go. As soon as I was about 30 feet above the roof tops, everything went black. I went into a void. I thought good, a short cut, California Now!, and I repeated this, but instead of going anywhere, I woke up instantly without any seemingly transistions or fanfare.
I am planning another trip to California next year, and I was going to write down any dreams I have about trips to california, and see if any of them are confirmed.
The last trip to California, confirmed a dream I had about a arcade on a pier. In the dream I was trying to travel left, and I walked through an arcade that was over the water at night and that was as far left as I could go.
When I really got to California a year later, I took a bus from downtown, down to the end of the line,to my surprise there was an amusement park pier right there. I walked down the pier and there was an arcade on the left hand side. The arcade was exactly as it appeared in the dream, and I walked through the back of it going left, and it was over the water. The feeling of deja-vu and connection was exciting.
So my dream idea or mission is to go on my vacation in my dreams first, then try to match them up with a real trip later on. Since the trip to California is already planned for next summer.
I think it would make for a much more interesting vacation, then going through a travel agent.
I already have a few more dreams that I need to confirm.
Hi Andrea
It sounds like you had a successful experience.Hopefully next time you`ll make it all the way to California.
By the way, I used to live a few blocks from the pier in Santa Monica and am wondering if that`s the place you went to.
Happy Trails
Yes it was called the Santa Monica Pier. I spent the rest of the week on my trip to LA, going back to the area to see if anything else gave me the feeling of deja-vu.
I am often aware that I am awake inside of a dream, but It seems like I lack the control to leave a mundane dream setting for a purposeful journey I told myself I would take before I went to sleep.
This is what happens, I realize I am dreaming, but I am either doing some mundane domestic task in an unfamiliar place, like cleaning the lint and dirt behind someones appartment washer and dryer,washing dishes,grocery shopping or riding in a car with a group of people to some destination, or waiting with strange people or people I "know", for someone to enter the scene.
I then sort of daydream inside of the lucid dream knowing that it is a dream, my original intent, and it lives inside of that dream as wishful thinking.
I'd like to break the cycle, and actual do the things i set out to accomplish before I fall asleep.