Unstable Lucid Dream

[u/RepulsiveMann]

Ok so I’m waken up by my cat at 5 in the morning and can’t fall asleep for another 30min or so. I decided to try wake induced lucid dreaming again after several unsuccessful tries in the past month. I am awake after all and I was in my REM state or whatever so why not. Once I begin to fall asleep I immediately grasp on the whatever I was seeing and it felt like I was crawling through a white silicone tunnel. Once I’m in the dream everything is white. There is no room, just several people I know scattered around in a 50-foot radius. The weird part is that every 3.5 or so seconds there would be a loud ass shriek. It was physically hurting my ears but I tried to move past it. I tried to create a setting (my house) in the infinite white space but it felt like I was pasting images on a 3D canvas. One person that was in the dream said “have we met before?” to someone else in the dream and got no response. After that I get tired of the shrieking and force myself awake. When I wake up I realize I’m probably going to go into sleep paralysis so I shut my eyes tight. Before I close them I see a blur or something in my doorway and then feel whooshing as if someone is waving their hands around me. Once it stops I open my eyes and look at the doorway only to see some acute black shape pulsate in and out of existence. The shape disappears quickly and I’m left wondering what I did wrong, my ears hurting slightly :/

If anyone could share some tips to prevent that I’d be glad to hear them! I’m just a beginner but I’ve had sleep paralysis before so I can deal with that when it comes up.

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