TrvlJockey
TrvlJockey t1_jdko49a wrote
Reply to Stephen King's Dark Tower series gave me lucid dreams. Has anyone else ever encountered this, or any other weird side effects of reading good (or bad) books? by Adoniram1733
Yes! Not with King thank goodness!
I’ve read some historical non-fiction recently and just a few nights ago I had a dream, inside a second dream, inside a third dream. I’ve had lucid, dream in a dream before but never experienced this. I’m still in a shaky mode about it because IF time travel is possible I did it in my first dream.
I was a young girl, probably 11-12 years old and it was either 1903 or 1908 as I remember seeing it on a newspaper, but when I woke up completely I couldn’t figure out if the circles were closed (8) or open as a 3. . I remember my father (banker), mother, everything in the house (which checks out accurately for time period), my clothing, the street in front, the yard and a general store. We were moderately well to do. I also kept a diary and my hand actually ached when I woke up.
The weird thing is the middle dream I told the young girl (me) that she was dreaming and needed to come back because something bad was about to happen. She (me) turned, looked up at the corner ceiling of her room and said, “I can’t go back. This is history and I can’t change the future.” Her dream continued as I watched on and her father was shot in a bank robbery about an hour or so later. I was there when the mother was told at the front door.
My third and last dream was me, present day, reality. I told the middle dream (also me) that I had to come back because the girl was just a dream. Middle me looked up at the corner of the bedroom ceiling where I was asleep in bed and said, “Just another moment. I need to stay with (her).” First and second dreams continued simultaneously while third me watched on.
REALITY, CURRENT TIME: I (we) must have been talking out loud in my current bed, because my dog woke me up scratching and whimpering at me which he does sometimes when I’m in the middle of a nightmare.
I tried to go back to sleep and continue the dreams, which I can often do if I am in in a very drowsy, deep sleep. There was another moment or two in the dreams, but then I was fully awake and my brain was in shock and awe trying to remember everything so I didn’t forget the dreams and experience. It was so cool, but also a little mind boggling because I REALLY feel like I was that young girl! Just freaky feeling… I know probably impossible, but my mind won’t stop thinking about it.
Sorry so long.
TrvlJockey t1_jdkon9m wrote
Reply to comment by TrvlJockey in Stephen King's Dark Tower series gave me lucid dreams. Has anyone else ever encountered this, or any other weird side effects of reading good (or bad) books? by Adoniram1733
Edited to clarify: any time I use girl, she, her, first, second third, I am taking about me in the dreams. All characters are me…