Often when i was in a lucid dream i had no clue i was dreaming at first and was very unsure of the experience. Later i tried a test in my dreams kinda like in Inception with the totems to insure that i was in a dream. I looked at numbers and words in my dream like street signs or just some numbers written down on paper or walls. Than i looked away for a second and when i turned back to the numbers or words they always changed and never where the same. So i knew i was in a dream. Do you have also a Totem or kinda prove method or you just know?

hello guys sorry for the spelling mistakes because I don't speak English. Last year, I had a lucid dream that I was in my room, and then a dream character opened the door of my room and said hello cheerfully. And it was my first time and I was shocked and suddenly I screamed loudly maybe a panic and green air came out of my mouth and I woke up. Later, I had a very, very clear dream that I yawned on my bed for a moment and that character was sitting next to my bed and she asked the other character sitting next to her: "Do you think he is asleep?" He meant me and then I woke up. It was not sleep paralysis because you can't yawn. And it's been a year and a half that I really want to do a lucid dream and I can do it, but I'm really afraid of the dark and dream characters. I saw a lot of horror movies when I was a kid. What should I do to face the dream characters? I know that no real harm will come to me. But I can't do it because of the fear of dark and dream character. I know the best advise is facing to the fear. But there are many people who watch scary movies but are not afraid at all. Even I wanted to join Kyokushin martial art. I want to read your advice. Thinx guys

As soon as I realized Iwas LD:ing, I rushed into the bathroom and started focusing and gently calling for my girl. After waiting a bit, my cat, who passed away a week ago, slowly made her way around the corner towards me.

She made her little purr she always made. She looked like her and she felt like her. I picked her up and I could feel her fur and the small small bumps of her spine as I was petting her. Her fur was cold-ish but her body was warm, like it usually was. And I got to hug her just a little bit.

Hopefully not the last time. It's such a blessing to be able to touch my babies after they're gone, its hands down the best part of LD. I never meet passed away people, but my pets return to me at least and that brings me so much comfort that I'm sad most other people don't get to experience.

Had a couple of interesting lucid experiences in the same night that might have turned into an astral flight experience.

Had multiple dreams the other night that kept shifting from one to the next. I was fighting zombies with Ash from Evil Dead. We were chopping up zombies together with chainsaws in the most gory, blood soaked, scary looking hallway ever. But I'm a huge Evil Dead fan so I was aware and loving every moment of it. I turn to Bruce Campbell and tell him how I'm a fan and I've seen all the movies multiple times and have read the comics and played the games, basically expressing my joy. As soon as I said that he stops what he was doing, the room goes grey, and he just looks at me and his face melts.

I immediately shift to another dream and then another. I end up at another cabin but it's more like a Twin Peaks style Midwestern motel. I'm walking through multiple rooms and just playing out the dream but I'm aware of this old man in a rocking chair that I keep passing. He stands out to me and at one point I'm fully aware of where I am in the building and how to get back to him. I find him and start a conversation and he's telling me about abilities he has and things he's able to do. I tell him I lucid dream sometimes and instantly without saying another word, his rocking chair reclines into a bed, his blanket just rolls out onto him by itself, and he ages rapidly and decomposes right in front of me.

I immediately shift to another dream and then another. Then I'm flying above my neighborhood, I'm just high in the air floating. All the streets and everything feel right, exactly how they look in real life or at least an image of Google Maps. I map out a path that I want to walk along with my partner, and just like a character transition in GTAV I shift and float down to the location I wanted to be at, and now I'm in another dream setting walking down that street with my girlfriend, partially aware of it but just letting it play out.

I've been a daily / heavy pot smoker for over a decade and this is week one going cold turkey so maybe that's part of it? But with being aware that I've lucid dreaming a handful of times prior to this, this has definitely been a fun couple of nights of sleeping.

Has anyone here experienced flight while astral projecting and did it feel anything like this attached youtube link?

i decided to count how many lucid dreams i can remember, i can remember them vividly as if they happened in reality, i could probably paint them if i had the skill to exactly where everything was, furniture, colours, etc.

I can remember over 60 dreams (i stopped by that point cause my brain was shockwaved by this point trying to decipher dream from reality and if i had multiple dreams in one night😭) but is this normal?

So I bought a remee lucid dreaming mask back in September and I've been kind of hesitant to try it cause I saw some videos about dangers of lucid dreaming. I know dreams aren't real and can't hurt you but I'm kind of worried that I might get stuck in a dream and not wake up or I might go into a coma or it might effect my organs like I could proably get a seizure. I've even written a note to my family explaining why I'm probably not waking up that I'm going to place beside me if my family try to wake me up but I'm not responding. I know this seems kind of dramatic but I have a tendency to overthink so I always think of the worst case scenario. Any advice or reassurance is greatly appreciated. Also forgot to add that I'm new to lucid dreaming I tried doing it without the mask a few times but nothing happened.

Hi yesterday I saw a weird dream . I saw myself turn on my car with my key , but I have a Honda not Tesla and he run automatically itself and run with a high speed and crashed . But I wasn’t inside .

And then I saw my self without clothes on top with my boobs exposed and I was trying to hide it , and my ex was there and talking to me

Do you know what does it means ?

Hello everyone,

New research study (potentially 1st of its kind) investigating NDEs from the perspective of a Lucid Dreamer. I'm a student researcher with Alef Trust, supervised by Pascal Michael (PHD, NDE researcher)

We are specifically looking for participants to interview that had a lucid dreaming practice prior to their NDE. All practices are welcome (If you not sure if you qualify for this study, get in touch!)

The project looks to study how Lucid Dreaming may impact NDEs, inspired by Tibetan Dream Yoga practices in preparation for The Bardos.

If you or anyone you know fits this niche category and wish to take part, please send an email to the below to find out more and take part:

Daniel Moore - Lead investigator - daniel16moore@gmail.com
Pascal.Michael - Co-investigator - pascal.michael@aleftrust.org

Odd question for the people of this subreddit can anybody else taste or feel pain or anything that while in a dream I thought other experiences like I've seen my phone time I've asked entities in my dream what time it is do not do that though but I've seen other stuff just out of curiosity wanted to know if anybody else was like that

It's 04:01am GMT +2 . November 09th 2024. I had just woken up at literally 03:00am about an hour ago from a dream that I found was quite emotional, realistic yet phenomenal.

It started off with me and a group of people or other souls but in human form. We were not in what most would depict as "Hell" or "Heaven" but also we all knew that we were not at the final destination from passing on, it was like being in a Chateau/Tuscan Manor , with green hills and nature surrounding, the building was definitely like a Tuscan castle sort of building.

There was an older lady (she was giving me Nun vibes) but she wasn't a nun nor wearing any of the attire, just the energy vibe, strict yet loving. She was the lady who was kind of like, mentoring or guiding us into transition .

Anyway.... it was so weird because all of us that were there knew we died but didn't know how, so the elder nun like lady gave us like a life review which then also showed how we died. Mine was kind of sad, it showed I was in some building , wrong place wrong time and a freak accident had killed me and all my loved ones only found out or found my body later on, I experienced their grief and emotions as well about my passing.

Now at this stage after the life review etc, I couldn't tell if I was really really dead or if it was a dream, so I started to do what most of us would when we lucid dream, (basically anything I wanted) magic, fly, etc ... but I was limited to what I could do because that lady kept watching me .

I don't know how but eventually I figured out a way to contact my fiance who was still alive . And we spoke briefly and he started crying on the phone and I kept wanting to tell him, I'm okay, I'm in a better place but that specific message wasn't getting through to him.

Eventually I had to leave the communication with him because that lady made me feel as though it was spiritually illegal to contact the living.

I then spoke to the elder lady on behalf of all of us souls to say we are ready to ascend. But she said we would all go to different places, and we all protested not to go to different places but to go to the same place together because we bonded over the time in that castle . It may sound weird but everything I explained about my dream as short as it may seem, it was as if we were there for like 1000 days in 30minutes.

But yes, I don't know what happened in the end , I eventually woke up because my dog needed to go pee hahaha . Any thoughts on this dream I had? Anyone had similar or can interpret it perhaps ?

I was in a lucid dream was and I start swearing and they told me if I didn't quit it I was going to get in trouble.lol

So here I am, dreaming. I do it a lot. So many dreams. I realise I am dreaming. I recognise most of the people I am with, though a lot I haven’t seen in person for years.

I didn’t recognise the place. A pool and pool house. My old friend was making me a drink in the pool house when I realised I was dreaming.

I was looking her right in the face and I thought I should ask her if she likes being in my dream. So I did.

“Do you like being in my dream?” I say suddenly. Her eyes are replaced by one larger eye in the centre. It is a weird luminescent pale green, still with a round pupil and the edges blur into the rest of her face as if the layer of her eyes over the top of this eye had dissolved. Very cyclopsy.

It was like the owner of the eyeball was wearing my friend as a suit but almost a hologram over the top maybe. It changed the visual scope of my dream and made it appear as kind of 3d showing through 2d. If that makes sense.

I stared at the eye 👁️. My friends body suit lips moved and it said “what?” I don’t remember the voice being any different.

I freaked out at what I had done and woke myself up deliberately. This is the first time I have spoken about dreams in a lucid dream and seeing that eye. It was like they hadn’t noticed I could see through/underneath and were surprised at that question. I have lucid dreamed many times before but not like this.

I did manage to go back to sleep, like I said I dream a lot so when awake I thought “Goddamn that was the weirdest one ever” but I wasn’t freaking out awake. Just curious. I’ve had some pretty weird ones. Can anyone relate or does anyone have a similar experience? I don’t know if I’ll try it again. Bit much for my brain to not be fearful of the eyeball owner.

hey everyone,was hoping I could find someone to help me out. I brought a remee lucid dreaming mask but I'm not sure how to set the timer for the red lights to randomly flash people say to click the circle part near where your eye is but I click it and nothing happens

How tf do you have a lucid nightmare?? BEAT THEY ASS!!! it might just be s me thing since I never struggled with dream control but how can you not?? Just expect it will work and it will! Whatchu mean you're lucid and you're STILL getting bitched I mean DAMN

Hello everyone,

New research study (potentially 1st of its kind) investigating NDEs from the perspective of a Lucid Dreamer. I'm a student researcher with Alef Trust, supervised by Pascal Michael (PHD, NDE researcher)

We are specifically looking for participants to interview that had a lucid dreaming practice prior to their NDE. All practices are welcome.

The project looks to study how Lucid Dreaming may impact NDEs, inspired by Tibetan Dream Yoga practices in preparation for The Bardos.

If you or anyone you know fits this niche category and wish to take part, please send an email to the below to find out more and take part:

Pascal Michael - pascal.michael@aleftrust.org
Daniel Moore - daniel16moore@gmail.com

So for as long as i can remember ive always had lucid dreams, but mine are always extremely realistic, like hence the one that i just had, im staying at my boyfriends mom house. he's at work, but in my dream he's whispering my name and touching my hand, i realize this is a dream so i run to my boyfriends mom room scared (yes i am chicken), and everything just feels off so i ask her if im dreaming and then suddenly im back in bed, same thing im scared so i run to her room, this time she has no head!, so i very quickly realize im still dreaming. then i scream wake up and im back in bed again, but im fully aware at this point that im still asleep, im in a different part of a house (one i visit quite often in my lucid dreams for some reason), and i try to "control" the dream, but nothing works. as soon as i try to interact with someone they just go limp, like the girl i was talking too literally just went limp, and i drug her around and then woke up? its the weirdest thing ever. I lucid dream so often and every single time they are so scary. i just want to know why i do, and how to stop it. it's honestly terrifying not being able to wake up. The last lucid dream i had, i had fallen asleep on my couch and this creepy girl walked over and sat beside me and told she causes my lucid dreams and she's haunting me so that’s terrifying.

Hi, I'm new to this sub and never really cared about lucid dreams bcz I have been having them since my childhood, but this morning felt different so here it goes: My alarm went off in the morning, and I turned it off, thinking, just five more minutes. I closed my eyes, still half-awake, knowing I had a lot of work to do. When I finally woke up and looked around, my room felt the same but somehow looked different. The dimensions were off, but I knew it was still my room. I glanced at my clothes and realized I wasn't wearing what I had slept in; instead, I was dressed in traditional attire. It hit me—I was dreaming and had "woken up" in the dream.

Curious to see what was going on, I decided to explore. I stepped out of my room and found myself in a huge, traditional house. An elderly man greeted me with a "Good morning." Though I'd never seen him before, I instinctively knew he was my father-in-law. I greeted him back and continued exploring. In the kitchen, I found a woman cooking, and I knew she was my mother-in-law. She looked at me, smiled, and said, "Welcome, my child. Help me with this." Confused, I picked up some vegetables and started preparing a traditional meal. Oddly, despite not knowing how to cook in real life, I handled it as if I'd done it a thousand times before. Realizing once again that I was dreaming, I left the kitchen without a word and walked out of the house, stepping onto a street. I turned back to see the large house l'd just exited and realized I was standing in an unfamiliar village.

I saw some children playing nearby and asked them where I was. They replied with a name I couldn't pronounce, so l asked an elderly man passing by. He looked at me with a strange, worried expression and said, "This is Kaushalya village, child, and you don't belong here." I felt a wave of panic and began to retreat, all the while repeating the village's name, promising myself I'd look it up when I woke up. I took one last look at the house and went back inside. A little girl ran toward me, saying, "The food is ready; come eat!" I asked her my name, and she laughed, thinking I was joking. When I asked how she knew me, she grew irritated and called out to my mother-in-law before running off. My mother-in-law came over and asked why l'd left the house without asking my husband for permission. I told her I hadn't known I needed to. She looked at me intently and said, "I don't know what's wrong with you today, but you don't seem like yourself. Go lie down in your bed and don't come out until you're back to normal."

A little scared, I went to lie down, trying to sleep, and the next thing I knew, I was awake in my own room. Since then, I've been feeling uneasy.. Immediately, I picked up my phone and searched for the village, and-voila-that village actually exists in India. My panic spiked, and I quickly opened Google Earth to see if I could find the house. I couldn't locate the exact house, but I did find the same street where I had seen that old man in my dream. It really exists, and I've never been there in my entire life.

I'm filled with mixed emotions about this. It's fascinating, but also a little terrifying. How could I have seen and felt emotions, details, and memories that aren't mine? It's almost like a part of me connected to a place l've never known.

My (M23) first lucid dream experience was rather interesting, I’ll just get to it. It was kind of scary at first, in reality I had returned home from a business trip and immediately fell asleep after I got home.

In the dream, I woke up in some hotel room, had no idea where I was, it felt real, I looked out the window and it was foggy, like silent hill. I had my phone on me but the only thing that showed was the time which was 7:59am. I tried to login to my phone but I couldn’t, only the time. I went to look in the bathroom and there was someone sitting jn the bathtub looking shook.

I just closed the bathroom door and then exited my hotel room. It was strangely structured, stairs and maze like. There was kids walking around emotionless like robots, I tried to ask a kid where I was but no answer and continued walking, after trying to ask I got frustrated and gently pulled a kid to stop walking and asked again where I was, after a few seconds of silence he continued to walk as if it was routine.

I continued to walk around, I saw a dead body wrapped in a garbage bag on the floor. Quickly walked passed it and then suddenly, one of my friends was there and he was in the same situation as me, like how tf did we get here? We walked to the lobby and it was empty. Suddenly my friend disappeared and I walked outside and suddenly I’m in a city, and the coworkers I had traveled home with were outside waiting for me, telling me we’re going to miss our flight, I was so happy to see them but I knew something was off.

We walked around the city for a bit, then I heard bells and alarms going off, and my coworker said that we need to get to safety, we ran into this bunker like building, waiting there.

That’s it, suddenly I woke up, this was last week (Oct 26, 2024) and I can’t stop thinking about it. I was shook at first and couldn’t sleep but now it’s better, but still I can’t stop thinking about it. I don’t know just thought I’d write this here.

Anyway peace ✌️

Have any of you ever tried giving yourself superpowers while lucid dreaming just to get the experience of what it’d be like to have them? So far I’ve tried super strength, super speed, flight, laser vision, phasing, and telekinesis most recently. I would love to hear if any other lucid dreamers have had unique experiences with superpowers while dreaming.

It's a type of Einherjar.

What does it mean? Who knows.

I had a really interesting experience the other night and was wondering if anyone had a similar encounter or if you have any ideas on how I can better understand what to do with it.

I have diagnosed CPTSD and ADHD, I have recently started therapy for the trauma related to a BPD mother and all that fallout. This is relevant because of the direction the dream went. I have trouble sleeping, so I’ll start a “dream thought” ..just a train of thought to sort of lull my brain to one place. At the beginning I was in control, and then at some point (while I was aware I was dreaming) something else took the reins. I ended up at a psychic medium (I was brought there by someone I didn’t know in waking life, and had just met in this dream- they knew each other apparently). The psychic was a man, whose face I can’t recall. We talked for a bit and then he began to talk to something in me. He was apologizing to me, the little girl from 30 years ago. He was telling me that all I needed was more hugs and shouldn’t have had to grow up so fast. I was crying, I felt all the things a physical body would feel. He spoke to this little girl me for sometime. Then he sort of changed gear and spoke to me as the adult I am. He talked to me about my son. He said that my little boy already knows what his passion is in life and that I should keep on supporting that. He said that there is a book that I need to get for him, that the title of the book is very common but I’ll know which book it is when I see it. My son is very young but already has well developed artistic abilities. It actually shocks me on a regular basis. If he could draw all day, he would. He amazes me.

I dream, regularly. I think I remember less than 50% of these dreams. This one felt very different. I was aware I was dreaming, but it felt like I wasn’t alone in this dream. I know I could have just been talking to my inner child but it felt like the man was not some part of my own subconscious, he felt like a visitor. Has anyone experienced that before? What or who could that have been?

I am sort of desperate to find this book he spoke about. He said it would be an important tool or element of inspiration for my son to help him on his path. I can’t remember if he ever said the name of the book. My gut tells me it starts with a W. It was a colorful cover with a lot of gold/amber tones. It was about art/an artist/art style. Something like that, but again that is what my intuition is telling me, I don’t always trust my brain because of trauma I experienced caused some issues with memory. I really, really wish I could recall that part of this experience.

Anyway, I thank you in advance for any insight or opinions.

Last night I dreamed I was in a snowy forest full of pine tresses. I’ve been dreaming about explosions a lot lately and fires.. in this dream one of the trees exploded and planted itself in front of me upside down. I’ve looked it up online and can’t find much except it means the holy Trinity and I’m not religious at all but have been interested in learning more about witchcraft. I’m very holistic, outside all the time, I meditate, I’m vegan.. I have no knowledge of pagan religion or even Christianity. Since I’ve stopped smoking weed and have been meditating more my dreams have become so realistic and last what seems like forever. I feel like I’m going crazy. Internet dream interpretation is so confusing and overwhelming.

note: Maira = Me

Toby: "Are you sure we should be doing this? We're in middle school most kids wouldn't be doing this. What if that other demon kid is still following us!?"

Aegis: Nope, we're doing this, we're out at night, we're in the graveyard, we're not turning back, and when I inevitably save the world the girls will come crawling to me.

Raiko: Aren't girls usually afraid of graveyards?

Aegis: shut up!

Toby: " *sigh* Let's just get this over with"... A dark Incomprehensible chant echoed throughout the graveyard.

After Toby stops chanting a few quiet moments pass by...

Aegis: "umm nothing happened are you sure you did this right"

---------- After I "wake up" fully ----------

Maira woke up in a coffin 6 feet under, finally Maira thought to herself, "I was wondering when I was going to wake up. and it seems like Sarah is buried right next to me."

note: Itacolumite is sand stone that bends!

Maria made Itacolumite shoot from the ground but it fails to brake the coffin.

Aegis start tapping the ground Impatiently.

Raiko: "Shush!"

Maira tried again... it works... Maria burst out of the ground, dirt and debris flying everywhere! Maira can sense the Moonlight, the other graves, and the three children that brang her back from the dead. They are quiet for a long 5 Seconds and then they speak.

Raiko: "They're girls? How was that gonna help!?"

Aegis: "They're pretty girls? that's awesome!"

Suddenly the ground from Sarah's Burial starts to move... She morphs the ground to prop her up slowly.

Sarah: "Actually we are women, and you kids shouldn't be here... go... home!"

I Immediately go to Hug Sarah. note: yes I know how sad and pathetic this is.

Maira: "Thanks for waking us up"

Aegis: "You're welcome"

Raiko: "Well actually Toby is the one who-"

Me to Sarah: "oh do you know where Kelsey is?"

Sarah: "No clue"

Toby: "Guys can we get this over with this"

Toby starts to walk towards another grave.

Toby: "There is one more remember... Kelsey"

Sarah: "she died... but she got the antidote?"

Toby stops and asks "are you guys coming?"

The rest of us follow him. Ahead there is a very large tombstone that could easily be mistaken for aamonument

Toby To float and speak incomprehensible words again, but this time his eyes went white and he started to float.

Aegis: "Ugh you're so dramatic when you do this Toby... I hope Kelsey is a guy"

Raiko: "He's starting to float off the ground and that's what you're worried about! Besides Kelsey is obviously a girls name!"

Aegis rolls his eyes wait a moment and says "oh by the way... she turned into a demon"

This time was different, it was like Kelsey just popped out of thin air. And she turned into a demon all right, her eyes were beat red and there was very clearly red horns on her head as well. As soon as Toby landed on his feet And gained back his consciousness he fell to the ground in terror.

Kelsey didn't move for a second, she looked around... and then attacked! She was only moving six times faster than a normal human, so she was clearly holding back. Sarah manipulated the ground so that Kelsey would sink, and Maira bonded her legs and hands with Itacolumite in an a upright position. All of the sudden Aegis charged in.

Toby: "Aegis STOP!"

Raiko: "Aegis what are you doing!"

Aegis: "ugh purification obviously, what does it look like you Idiots!"

Aegis reached out to her stomach and pulled out a bright blue shard. He held it up for a couple of seconds and it started to grow even brighter. And before any of them could react he jammed the light shard in her stomach. Her demon form slowly faded away from the point of contact. Finally Maria lifted the restraints.

Aegis: "Well that was anticlimactic"

Maira , Sarah and Kelsey all hugged each other like old friends as if nothing happened.

Maira: " Are those your parents?"

For some reason Toby is still on the ground all freaked out..."what where"

Three more flashlights are spotted slowly coming out of a tree that surrounded the graveyard and sure enough it was their parents. As soon as they saw the kids they came rushing to them.

Suddenly Maira , Sarah and Kelsey All turned their heads to the same places... and stared.

Maira: "There's a demon over there"

note: I came up with the names after I woke up, One of the kids Told me his name, Toby. Check in the comments for more notes.

Okay, so this happened this morning. Let’s say between the hours of 430 to around 6 am. I am actually visiting my best friend in another state. First time I have come to her and her partners house since they bought it a few years ago and I am sleeping in my God niece’s room. So, my alarm woke me up around 4 am. I forgot to turn it off for this trip. I had to use the bathroom then also got a quick snack.. Oreos. Then went back to sleep after a while from scrolling on my phone. Not sure how long I was sleeping for but I was in a deep slumber. Comforting. Then I started moaning a bit as if trying to speak but my mouth pursed into a frown I think and was trembling. Then I felt someone sit at the corner of the bed. The person felt like a female of course. I knew it was and laid next to me. Laying their head at my hips and I felt as if my arm was raised up and I was caressing someone. In a loving matter. Then I heard “I just wanna be beside you or next to you.” I moaned again and then heard another whisper “why are you so forbidden.” It was not scary. Actually it was comforting. I felt calm but I was aware but sleeping. Then I moved a bit and opened my eyes. No one was there. Then I heard a knock shortly after. It was my god daughter and best friend seeing if I was awake to take her to school. Lol, I had promised to take her to school this morning. When I came back from dropping her and her friends off, I decided to tell my best friend and she stated they heard me talking or something and figured I was up already and some other things. I’m just harping on the “Why are you so forbidden.” part and why I was not scared. The voice and presence felt familiar. I felt comforted and safe. Like I knew this person. I don’t know. I know it was a female. I’m just questioning myself at this point.

Hey, I just wanted to share this while its all fresh in my mind!

So I have been fascinated with AP and Lucid Dreaming for many many years and have had some strange experiences, especially where AP is concered but want to add that I haven't successfully AP'd or even Lucid Dreamt! , I think I've been close...due to physical and mental feelings but I wouldn't say I've ever had a success. The only other thing I will mention is that I dream vividly, very intensely. Anyone who's ever slept next to me has comented on it over the years, on the outside I'm quite active physically and internally on waking sometimes my dreams have been so intense its like coming down from some sort of LSD trip and takes me a little while to get my head together, while all the time shaking my head at the unbelievable intensity of the dream. I also add that this has been going on since my early teens.

But last night/this morning was the most intense I can remember. I knew I was dreaming. I know that for sure. The dream was of extra ordinary intensity. I had also woken briefly and then gone back to sleep, on returning to sleep thats when the dream was of extra intensity (I have read about this being a thing). I'm not able to write down the whole thing, but I'll try and capture my experience.

I knew I was asleep, I knew I was dreaming, I knew my eyes were closed but I could see my room, I could turn my head and see everything from my sleeping position. I can't be sure to recall but I think things were different colours. The next memory I can put down in words is a white room, I think it was some sort of medical centre, a waiting room, I could see the reception desk, there were no other people present. I could see above the desk signs, I could make them out but the writing on the signs wasn't rendered properly. What I mean is I could tell there was writing but it was a jumble of shapes, not even proper letters. It is then that I knew I was dreaming, I was remarking to my dream self 'Thats no good, I can't read that!'. Then I remember turning my head to look around the waiting room and I felt like I was physically moving my head (I may well have been!) to look around. Like wearing a VR headset. I checked out the other signs and remember stating out loud to myself 'Or that, (as I saw another sign) and then 'Or that!' I exclaimed out loud as the third sign shifted from the nonsense shapes into Chinese writing...as if my brain was doing its best to render something I could read and was trying a different language. I felt that I said 'Or that!' out loud, again I may have done.

That's pretty much it for putting things into words. There were other visual experiences and scenes but I can't coherently describe them well enough to make sense. I knew I was dreaming but I wouldnt say I had any control. The experience of seeing my room and knowing my eyes were closed I have experienced before.

I just wanted to share really and to get this experience down while its still very real. It took me a long time to 'come round' this morning I was/have been quite effected by it, a bit blown away by its intensity. Again, just wanted to share for feedback. I didn't do anything special to experience this and would like any advice on how to build on this experience and cultivate a proper lucid dream.