dream lucidly

Last week I had another lucid dream. I was driving my car, but the brakes were going out on me. This triggered (still in the dream) that dreams about my car breaking down have the potential to go lucid. So I demanded to myself that I wake up.

The thing was that I did have the sensation of waking up, but instead of REALLY waking up, I just went into a new layer of dreaming.

I think if I keep writing about this, I might continue to make progress.

About two weeks ago, I had a lucid dream that was pretty cool. I was in my car, driving, and something was telling me it was a dream, but I wasn’t 100% sure about that. But then my car began to slide backward and-on a hunch-I released the steering wheel. Suddenly I was in a tunnel of wind. It was peaceful. Then I woke up.

It wasn’t quite lucid, but I remember it clearly. There was a war going on, not with Iraq, but with China. All American women were being hunted down like criminals. I was trying to stay inconspicious, but eventually they herded me into a room with some other people. They were killing Americans on the floor above us and blood was dripping from the ceiling. I knew I was minutes away from death. But I had no choice but to go along with the Chinese when they came for me. At that point, I woke up.

I think this dream stemmed from two things I did before bed: Watching the TV show “Lost,” which is rather violent, and downing two shots of NyQuil.