Weird Dream?

niallk

Posted this in the spirituality forum a couple of months ago. Only just discovered this forum. I often have lucid dreams but this was different. Any dream experts?

Weird Dream:
OK just woke up out of the weirdest dream of my life and had to record it and chose Boards:

So I'm having a fairly long standard dream the details of which I can't remember up until this point: I am waking down a road in my town past a school and I notice the gate is slightly ajar (unusual because it is normally fully open or fully closed). But at this point I remember that i had been dreaming earlier that I was walking down the road and the gate had been in the same position. Then I start to think to myself "Did I predict this in my dreams". Then came the usual dream bit of wondering "Am I dreaming right now"... After this came a short burst where I don't know exactly what was happened but I think there were like two or three birds flying directly at me and I ducked... Here came the weird part...

I'm lying in bed face up with my head pointing to the left with my eyes open (They were actually open as you'll hear later). I'm still very much zoned out but I feel light bodied like I'm about to lift off. I become aware again that I am dreaming and think it's gonna be one of those where I just start to fly around at will. but no: I can't move. It was like my eyes were awake before the rest of my body but I couldn't even move my head to shift my view. This is where it gets spiritual.

(Understand I'm not a spiritual person at all. I don't believe in any god or any kind of afterlife. Very sceptical of all thing "supernatural") So I can't move but feel on the verge of lifting off but aware I was dreaming. Then I just start to believe (actually consciously decide to just accept this as reality) it was actually happening and at that point I started to raise. It was a strange sensation: not like I was being pulled but rather being pushed by a strong wind under me (I don't believe I was flatulent before you start).

I was practically on my way up but my feet, pressed against the board at the end of the bed were holding me down.At this point I really wanted to rise and started to try mentally to unhinge my feet but I still couldn't move. Where as when I really started to believe this was happening caused me to raise in the first place, I now became more cynical and tried to trick myself by telling myself "OK I believe in God, can I fly now?" not really being honest to myself just lying in order to fly.

At this point I woke up but it was no sudden jolt of an awakening. I was very slowly lowered back down to my bed. My eyes open all the time. It was like being brought out of hypnosis or how I imagine that would feel.

Upon my head touching the pillow I made a point of keeping my eyes fixed in the same direction almost afraid to confirm I was actually awake and just waiting for the dream to continue because it still seemed so real. When it didn't, I just looked around and thought about what had just happened. A couple of minutes later I checked the timeand it was only about 15 minutes since I reckon I fell asleep in the first place.

Weirdest dream of my life.
Any thoughts/ analysis?

lil_lisa

Ok, firstly, that's crap about not being spiritual, everyone has a spirit, just cos you don't exercise it doesnt mean you are not spiritual. Secondly, standard question, have you taken drugs recently? Thirdly, are you used to lucid dreaming? The fact that you were floating but couldn't let go sounds like you want to let go or worries or problems, be released from them, but something deep deep down inside of you just wont let you let go of them. Does that sound familiar?

Feet are really important here because they represent the part of you that is sensible and grounded so it sounds like its this part of you that is being logical and not allowing you to let go of your problems so easily!

The part I'm sceptical about is where you come back to the bed, all it takes is a blink, your eyes to open to make you think that you were awake the whole time. You could've been asleep but when you blinked in your dream you woke up.

It's strange, I had a dream last night that I was pushing the bed between the walls while lying on it with my hands and feet, don't know what that means though, some sort of messed up floating maybe.

Let me know if any of this makes sense x

niallk

lil_lisa wrote: »

Ok, firstly, that's crap about not being spiritual, everyone has a spirit, just cos you don't exercise it doesnt mean you are not spiritual.

I don't neccesarily agree but I will accept I don't "excercise it".

lil_lisa wrote: »

Secondly, standard question, have you taken drugs recently?

No

lil_lisa wrote: »

Thirdly, are you used to lucid dreaming?

Yes I am a regular lucid dreamer but this one was quite different in that I'm quite sure my eyes were open for the duration. Having read the lucid dream page on wikipedia, I believe I had "sleep paralysis" whereby I could not move anything except my eyes. I remember trying to look at my body but couldn't because my head was tilted to the side.

lil_lisa wrote: »

The fact that you were floating but couldn't let go sounds like you want to let go or worries or problems, be released from them, but something deep deep down inside of you just wont let you let go of them. Does that sound familiar?

Hey lady, we all have problems.

lil_lisa wrote: »

Feet are really important here because they represent the part of you that is sensible and grounded so it sounds like its this part of you that is being logical and not allowing you to let go of your problems so easily!

Makes some sense, but at first I was afraid to let go. Then I tried to let go and got some "elevation". From then on I really wanted to let go but my damn feet were locked to the bed.:(

lil_lisa wrote: »

The part I'm sceptical about is where you come back to the bed, all it takes is a blink, your eyes to open to make you think that you were awake the whole time. You could've been asleep but when you blinked in your dream you woke up.

I remember the point in my normal dream when I became lucid as I explained, (then 2 or three black birds flew at me {explain that!}). Usually I am not able to stay calm very long when I become lucid and wake up soon afterwards. As for eventually "waking up", there was no blink. As I say I was very slowly lowered back to my bed and made a point of keeping my eyes fixed on where they were looking and not blinking. So eh

lil_lisa wrote: »

It's strange, I had a dream last night that I was pushing the bed between the walls while lying on it with my hands and feet, don't know what that means though, some sort of messed up floating maybe.

Pretty messed up alright:pac:

lil_lisa wrote: »

Let me know if any of this makes sense x

All except the bit about your dream but yeah, thanks for the insights.

lil_lisa

Well blackbirds usually symbolise bad omens and misfortune, but because they flew over you this could mean that your misfortune is about to leave you.

When you said the gate is usually either fully closed or fully open, is that in dreaming or waking life? Anyway, an open gate suggests new opportunities while a closed gate suggests an obstacle that you are finding difficult to get over in life. So put the two together and maybe there's a new opportunity about to arise for you but you might find it difficult to get through the obstacle before you can avail of it!

And as for the paralyzed idea, you said you couldn't move your head, and if we just think in the way that you couldn't move your feet also then this suggests you are feeling helpless, pretty much the same as before, you may feel unable to deal with a certail situation!

Suprisingly for such a strange dream/experience it has a very broad meaning (for me anyway). Is there anything specific or minor that could've happened?

I had a dream a few nights ago about the most horrific car crash, I studied it all and tried to interpret it, but the only thing that gave away the true meaning of the dream was the fact that in the middle of it I couldn't turn up the windows in the car. These small details have great effects on a dream.