This was not a dream of the usual sort ....

This kind of thing happens to me when I reach a certain state of tiredness or get waked up after falling asleep when I am really tired and then fal back asleep. It must have to do with achieving a particular state of relaxation. I'm not so good with the body asleep- mind awake thing and this is one thing that happens.

Well I fell asleep late at night but not in bed and I got waked up and I moved to my bed. Can't recall what I was dreaming/thinking when I was waked up but it must be significant. So I never totally woke up; in fact I recall stumbling as if I were drunk but I wasn't. I think I was feeling some vibrations too...non-physical ones. So I fell back "asleep" very easily. Then I had this terrible "dream" . I was in a house with my son and then we walked to another house or another area. What was bad was the darkness. Like, why can't I learn to turn on the lights!!!! And there was something invisible in the darkness and I was afraid of it. Like unseen monsters. Thinking about what wqs happening woke me up. I sort of recall feeling mild vibrations, which is why I don't think it was a run-of-the-mill dream.

Does anyone else have experiences like this? I don't understand why everything is murky and foggy and dark. If part of me is stuck somewhere, I am probably calling any retrievers "monsters"! I can understand why sometimes people run away from retrievers.

thanks for the comments. after I posed I found something at the links above that talked about fear and the foggy darkness...I can't find it right now.

So I had been to a meeting at the town hall the night before over something I have conflict with over the town and something I have, for better or worse, invested alot of emotional energy in. Not by design, that's just how my gut reacted. I was a basketcase over the meeting, I had to stand up and say my piece, and my neighbor acknowledged that my voice quivered. I do seeem to need to detatch more. It is something I have been emotionally ijnvested in for a while and I am afraid i will lose. I'm not surprised I had this wierd experience the next night. That's not to imply that all town officials and employees are monsters! : )

But I've been to places like this before, so if it is fear, then I must have a large residual territory of it. and why does it manifest as a Place??? or as an atmosphere ("atmosphere" as the word is used to describe the setting of a play). This one-act play is set in the Land of Fear.

Because of the vibrations I don't think of it as a lucid dream.

I don't usually think well enough in these experiences to remember to try PUL. I wonder if there is a correlation of that to not being able to do focus 10 or beyond well either.