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Was I lucid dreaming?
So today I took a nap as I was home alone & as I was startin to wakeup, I could feel myself still being half asleep & half awake. I could hear someone with a very deep loud voice banging on my room door saying "LET ME IN!!!" & it was scary to me because I knew it was in my mind..like somewhat dreaming. But my mind made me think it was happening for real. It made me wakeup literally screaming! It freaked me out so badly. I felt very confused with my heart pounding. Did I just have a lucid dream?
2 Answers
- Dr. DLv 76 years ago
No, it really isn't a lucid dream, it was something even cooler.
It was an auditory hypnopompic hallucination. Hypnopompic hallucinations occur when one is waking up. Don't worry, you are not crazy and yes, they are fairly normal. You are just experiencing dream fragments just before you wake up.
- AraktsuLv 76 years ago
Your question: "Was I lucid dreaming?"
Your attempt at narrative: "Update: So today I took a nap as I was home alone & as I was startin to wakeup, I could feel myself still being half asleep & half awake. I could hear someone with a very deep loud voice banging on my room door saying "LET ME IN!!!" & it was scary to me because I knew it was in my mind..like somewhat dreaming. But my mind made me think it was happening for real. It made me wakeup literally screaming! It freaked me out so badly. I felt very confused with my heart pounding. Did I just have a lucid dream?"
No.
There you go.
Now go back to sleep.
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