Dreams

[Excited Penguin]

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I once had a dream(I guess it might've been a nightmare, I don't know exactly how to classify it). 

I was sitting in a dark hallway, an elevator entrance nearby. The elevator was active, it was presently ascending to my floor. 

I was hearing a sound like dragged chains that I, for some reason, even now associate with an elevator, even though I think elevators are mostly quiet(aren't they?) and don't make any particular noise. Maybe I'm thinking of an older version of an elevator, something I saw once somewhere or in a movie or something.

 Anyway, I'm about to reveal the scary part of all of this. The lift doors opened and a figure like a ghost came out and just jumped at me through the darkness, screeching, all the while eerily illuminated and floating perfectly above the ground. It was the perfect horror scene, really. Just as it was about to land on me, I awoke, of course.

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 Here's the scary part. I was still hearing that crazy sound, the elevator working. Those dragged chains. I made sure I was awake, I pinched myself, I sat up, nothing worked. I kept hearing it for like 12 seconds or something, but for what seemed like a lot more than that at some level. I was freaking out, so I just instinctively shaked my head, even though just as I was doing this I was sarcastically thinking to myself Yeah, that'll work. And it did work. The sound just faded out of my hearing, even as I was shaking my head left and right.

Fucking crazy, I thought to myself, stayed up for a while to make sure I wasn't dreaming or anything like that, then went back to sleep.

That last paragraph made me think, have you ever experienced hypnagogia? I've experienced it once or twice and it was awesome. I woke up but I was really tired but I wanted to be awake at the same time. So I tried waking up however I fell asleep, woke up, fell asleep, woke up etc in a very very short period (5-10 sec) I was basically shifting or transitioning between being awake and sleeping. During that time I could see irl although it was a bit vague i.e not very clear as if I squinted a bit however at the same time I saw a vague dream. I was driving an old mustang without a roof in 3rd person through an infinite one road highway, really odd. It went on for 5-10 sec then I woke up. It was an odd but fun experience.

How doesn't that make you want to have lucid dreams all night long?

Tbh, this thread is the first place I ever met a person who thought lucid dreams aren't all they're cracked up to be.

I haven't ever had hypnagogia, but I'm extremely interested in it because of my overarching LD interest.