Is it Real?

Date: 2/3/2018

Sometimes I know I am in a dream. Ya know, lucid dreaming? But that's when things get weird. The first time I had a lucid dream, the minute I KNEW it was a dream, I tried to be the master of my own reality. Outloud I demanded, "I want a unicorn!!" (I was about 16 at the time, but what can I say?) It was my deepest desire, my biggest wish. Something I only got to experience in a dream once before, a majestic horseback ride on a unicorn through a valley. I wanted that again so badly. In response to my demands, the dream transported me to a grassy opening right next to a dense forest, with nothing in site except a huge, and not very memorable billboard behind me. It was like my head purposefully denied me. That's when I realized how to play the game. I spent the next few lucid dreams just trying to proove the dream realm was REAL. I was aware of what's happening, so I woukd immediately run to a wall or table and knock on it, touch it, stare at it. And let me tell you, it was as profoundly real and solid as anything I see or touch in my waking life. So maybe some of the rules are a little different, or maybe there are gaps where we suddenly appear in other places, but it has been said that our memory is not a perfect play by play of reality, but a depiction of what we recall about an experience. Our perceptions can alter what we recall as a fact. The first time I took hold of how to get what you want in a dream world, I was upstairs in a house with wooden floorboards standing in front of a mirrored wall. I wanted to make an item appear, a pair of glasses. So I said outloud, "I want glasses!" nothing. Then I focused really hard, hoping to make them suddenly appear in my hand out of thin air or something. Still, nada. So I decided to try something different. I walked out to the hallway to a dresser, and opened up the top drawer, hoping to find what I desired inside. It was empty. I closed the drawer, then shut my eyes, and reopened the drawer, this time using my sense if touch instead of my sense if sight to find what I wanted. I imagined feeling the smooth rims of the glasses, and as I did that, my hands landed on a pair of glasses in the drawer. For whatever reason, obtaining what you want or don't want in the dream realm (at least for me.) was determined by sight or lack there of. Another example was that I would have reocurring horrific dreams set in different places that involved me being terrorized by a dead japanese girl in a uniform. She found a way to always be out of the corner of my eye, or appearing in a room a I couldn't escape, or popping out at me. I had no way to escape her, until I started to anticipate it, and then I would cover my eyes. I believe this is a low level sort of lucid dreaming, the anticipation? The last thing I will end this with is by far the strangest piece of dream evidence I hold that sometimes truly has me wondering what is or isn't real. As I start to fall asleep, if I hear a loud noise that disturbs me, I see TV static. Like a channel signal got inturrupted. As if dreams are similar broadcasts to radio waves. Also, at the end of almost every dream, right before I wake up, I begin to grow tired or sleepy in the dream realm, as if in order to wake, I need to fall asleep in the dream. Has anyone else had similar experiences to these? Drop a comment if so!