Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31739971-20180330143109/@comment-30732949-20180507235806

Bane of Potato wrote: I've been trying to engage in some casual lucid dreaming for a few days now. The process is simple, although it makes no god damn sense in my mind. You simply do reality checks every few minutes, like biting your tounge/cheek or touching all your fingers with your thumb. Another way I've not heard is to use something that physically can't happen in the dream world as a reference, like the appearance of god damn demons. This took way too long to get used to, since I'm trash tier at both staying awake and counting time but the idea is that when you can no longer feel the pain or find it incredibly difficult to do, you're dreaming. I was like, hooray, I'm asleep! But then I opened my eyes and saw this dark silhouette of a figure that was staring into my soul while hanging outside the window. I was pretty unnerved but chill because I knew it was my dream. Until I also started hearing noises. At that point I tried to get up and turn on the light but I found my body was on strike. I pretty much had a minor heart-attack and hyperventilated so hard I almost fainted. After researching, I found out this is sleep paralysis.

Long story short, I had the worst 10-20 seconds of my life although it felt like an eternity.

PS: I'm pretty sure every lucid dreaming guide forgets to include how to kill the demon that's about to bury itself inside your chest.

PPS: I now have a way to torture my friends by recommending this to them. As long as they follow through the entire process and it turns for the worst. sleep paralysis...I have that quite a lot, it sucks and its still absolutely terrifying since I can't tell the difference between reality and unicorn land while im sleeping and most of my dreams are just loud noises and flashing while feeling like I'm about to suffocate and honestly I can't do  anything about it.