Re: I just wanted to wake up
That's an interesting use of fear to get lucidity. I know it wasn't pleasant, but well done nonetheless.
Re: I just wanted to wake up
I had that many times happen to me. Nightmares often help me become aware of the dreaming, but when I do, I would much rather wake up than use that awareness to conquer the dream.
Re: I just wanted to wake up
IIRC, End of world and catastrophe dreams can help process survival fears. I wonder what effect becoming lucid has, energetically, on such occasions.
Re: I just wanted to wake up
That's awesome.
When I was a little boy I used to always have the lucid dreams where I would give the command to wake up. Whenever it sometimes wouldn't work to wake up in my dream I would have to "kill" myself to wake up. Always I remember only jumping off things like buildings. It seemed I would wake up just before I hit the ground but its hard to tell. I did used to have a reoccurring dream of just sitting patiently in a child's swing in total darkness... when I would want to wake up i would stand up and simply jump out of the swing and plunge into the dark. After a while of falling I would wake up. I also seemed to know what time it was which is how I knew to wake up (I woke up to go watch cartoons)
I don't dream like that anymore... but occassionally I have been able to have an awareness of time/clocks while dreaming
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Wow, as I am writing this reply, I am watching on National Geographic a documentary about tsunamis. The story they are showing is about the island Crete in Greece, which was swallowed by a giant tsunami 3000 years ago. The buildings and the statues were the same like from my dream. And the way they portrayed the event was just like I experienced it.
It is so weird that few days after my dream/OBE I choose to watch a program which is showing almost the same type of event.
Re: I just wanted to wake up
That's a wonderful synchronicity. I like these moments where I know that I and the reality I experience are very interrelated. :)