[Ashleen]

So often I get these dreams where I stumble out of bed and get up to turn on the light, only to flick it several times and it does not work. I stand there in the half darkness somewhat baffled, I can feel the texture etc. but the light will not turn on. This I have read also is an indicator that you are dreaming. It always happens to me, only a few times has it worked to turn on a light in a different room...but never the light I intended. I have gone towards lights in dreams, and seen daylight vs. night in dreams. I just woke up because I had another very strange dream like this.
I was thinking too much, suddenly I was in my old bedroom in my larger bed and stumbled out of bed to turn on the light but it wouldn't turn on. Then I was back in bed and feeling like I needed to wake up, so I got out of bed--except I was in a room foreign yet familiar to me. Almost like a parallel dimension. I woke up and tried to turn on the light but didn't even make it or something.
Then I am in my current bedroom, I wake up just like normal. I get up and feel the sheets parting and everything is fine and textures are real--even the light from the moon is visible. I go to turn on the light and it won't work. So I just stood there--and flicked the light up and down and up and down...haha and so eventually I just walked back to my bed and laid down. I then began feeling like I was going to be attacked or get sleep paralysis, I heard someone trying to communicate with me--to tell me something but I wanted to wake up so I just ignored him and then I screamed in the dream and screamed in bed (not out of fear but frustration) and woke up. So I get up and I turn on the light.

What is the significance? Is it that I'm in some parallel world or maybe my brain just saying--don't wake up yet? Has anyone else tried to wake up and had that crazy experience where you seem fully awake and yet you're not?

[Chad_Johnson]

I once was dreaming in a lucid dream, I was aware of my dream and someone in my dream pulled me into a room. all of a sudden my ears popped and I was in intense white light. I woke up from my dream and my room was filled with the same intense white light and I'm awake and my upper body is vibrating now I look at my T.V and it was on with white static? now I'm scared. I felt something cool about to happen but the T.V had a weird vibe to it,so I shook my head out of it. Then my vision went back to the darkness of the night, the vibrations went away. It was dark so then I turned my light on?

The weirdest experience I ever had, I was awake when I had this light brighten up my room.
might be something to do with having an OBE, etherical projection?

[G3N0M3]

Useually the whole light thing means that your not in control, and obviously your not. Have you thought about learning how to lucid dream? Because useualy if somehow I'm dreaming and I can't do something that normaly works, I know that I'm dreaming then SNAP I'm awake in my dream, lucid dreaming, then I can do whatever I want.

The perellel dimension part may be either a dream or astral projection, as I just finished explaining in two threads, the realm is in a flux and therefore different times could be visible. So unless your house was built by you you're seeing the room the way it was, or has been before you.

As for the something trying to speak to you, try to listen to it now, as it might be your guides tring to tell you something. That something can be very important, even lifechanging at times..

[BurnSide]

This is a great thing that is happening to you! It's called a 'False Awakening' and I suggest you google that and do some of your own research. The next step you should take is learning to understand, once you've flicked the light switch and discovered it to not work, is to become aware that you are indeed dreaming. You're so close to Lucid Dreaming which is such a wonderful experience.

[HDesiato]

Check out this scene from Waking Life. They discuss lucid dreaming and the light switch situation as well.
Clip from Waking Life (Lucid Dream Techniques).

[phreakstep]

Ashleen, on 06 November 2009 - 07:08 AM, said:

So often I get these dreams where I stumble out of bed and get up to turn on the light, only to flick it several times and it does not work. I stand there in the half darkness somewhat baffled, I can feel the texture etc. but the light will not turn on. This I have read also is an indicator that you are dreaming. It always happens to me, only a few times has it worked to turn on a light in a different room...but never the light I intended. I have gone towards lights in dreams, and seen daylight vs. night in dreams. I just woke up because I had another very strange dream like this.
I was thinking too much, suddenly I was in my old bedroom in my larger bed and stumbled out of bed to turn on the light but it wouldn't turn on. Then I was back in bed and feeling like I needed to wake up, so I got out of bed--except I was in a room foreign yet familiar to me. Almost like a parallel dimension. I woke up and tried to turn on the light but didn't even make it or something.
Then I am in my current bedroom, I wake up just like normal. I get up and feel the sheets parting and everything is fine and textures are real--even the light from the moon is visible. I go to turn on the light and it won't work. So I just stood there--and flicked the light up and down and up and down...haha and so eventually I just walked back to my bed and laid down. I then began feeling like I was going to be attacked or get sleep paralysis, I heard someone trying to communicate with me--to tell me something but I wanted to wake up so I just ignored him and then I screamed in the dream and screamed in bed (not out of fear but frustration) and woke up. So I get up and I turn on the light.

What is the significance? Is it that I'm in some parallel world or maybe my brain just saying--don't wake up yet? Has anyone else tried to wake up and had that crazy experience where you seem fully awake and yet you're not?

It is called a lucid dream I have those alot but it gets kinda annoying because I ended spining in circles 40% of my lucid dreams to maintain them but at least I get 60% of fun ^^.

Anyway I had once pretty realistic lucid dream I woke up in my room and I extended my both arms and I counted 10 fingers then I close my nose and start to breath and I couldn't breathe I even saw my nose when I looked down so then I figure out I am not dreaming since in dreams you couldn't see your nose, you would count more or less your fingers and you could breath with closed nose anyway I went to bathroom and I looked at clock it was 7 am then I was confused since it was very dark outside like it is midnight and my father was at home (he goes to work at 6 am) then I looked away and look at the clock again now time was 12 pm I looked again and back at the clock then there were some digital looking letters I opened the drawer from the kitchen took the fork from it and try to lift it with my mind (psychokinesis) and it worked then I realized I was lucid dreaming all I did next was went outside my house and pushing people on the bikes using my psychokinesis :D:D

Why was this dream ****ty?

because almost everything turned out like in the real world and If I didnt look at that clock while walking to the bathroom guess what could happened

[Dropa]

I once read a book, "How to Lucid Dream," and for about a month I achieved lucidity every single time I slept. *sigh* I miss those days.

[Luce DiMorte]

I've had that before, actually. Excpt I was only partially in control of myself. I knew that it was a dream, but I didnt think rationally. As I was falling into the crocodile Pond I remember saying rather hazily:

"This is just a dream..helicopters will come and rescue me..of..here they are....yay. I am saved thank you"

[phreakstep]

Luce DiMorte, on 11 November 2009 - 11:00 PM, said:

I've had that before, actually. Excpt I was only partially in control of myself. I knew that it was a dream, but I didnt think rationally. As I was falling into the crocodile Pond I remember saying rather hazily:

"This is just a dream..helicopters will come and rescue me..of..here they are....yay. I am saved thank you"

Thats a basic beginner stuff really

First time that I have it was something like that I knew that it was a dream but some stuff come at random.
I was American on Omaha beach without weapons and I wanted to get weapons then keyboard popped up and I started to use keyboard for picking up class and weapons (enemy territory lol).