u/Gucci1244

So I’ve always thought lucid dreaming was interesting, but I’ve never really been someone who actively tries to do it. It happens to me once in a while by accident, and usually the second I realize I’m dreaming, I wake up.

A couple of days ago I came across some TikToks where people were saying that if you become lucid, you should never tell the people in your dream that you know you’re dreaming because they react in really creepy ways.

I didn’t think much of it. Then literally a day or two later, I had a lucid dream.

I was in my apartment and realized I was dreaming. I got excited and immediately went outside because I figured if I’m lucid, I’m not wasting time standing around my apartment. As soon as I got outside, I started flying. It was honestly amazing.

I flew over to a soccer field where people were playing football and hanging around in groups. The weird thing was everyone was dressed kind of out of place. Not suits exactly, but almost business-casual clothes at a football field.

Then I remembered those TikToks. I decided I was going to test it myself.

I walked over to one of the groups first and talked to them for a bit. They were super friendly. Asking where I was from, what I did, what my hobbies were. Just normal conversation.

After a while I thought, alright, let’s do this. I walked out toward the middle of the field and shouted: “HEY EVERYBODY! I WANT TO ANNOUNCE THAT I AM FULLY AWARE THAT I AM DREAMING RIGHT NOW!”

Everyone looked at me.Then went back to whatever they were doing.I remember thinking, wow, TikTok was full of crap.Then I turned back toward the group I’d been talking to.They were all smiling. For maybe two seconds.

Then every single one of them instantly dropped their smiles at the exact same time and just stared at me.It genuinely freaked me out.Then I noticed that literally everyone on the field had started running at me.

Not jogging, Not walking but Sprinting at full speed.

I panicked and tried to run, but the group I had been talking to stepped in front of me and grabbed me.The crowd reached me and started eating me.Specifically the left side of my body.Which sounds ridiculous typing it out, but in the dream it was honestly terrifying.

Then suddenly everything cut out and I was back in my room.

At this point I wasn’t lucid anymore.I left my apartment and somehow ended up in this really nice restaurant that looked like something straight out of 1980s America. Everyone was friendly, people were talking, eating, laughing, etc.Then I became lucid again.

And unfortunately I remembered the football field. A normal person would’ve left it alone.I decided to try again.I walked right into the middle of the restaurant and yelled:“I AM FULLY AWARE THAT I AM DREAMING RIGHT NOW!”

Everybody stopped talking and looked at me.And then, instantly, every single person switched languages.Not a real language or any human language but just complete gibberish.Everyone in the entire restaurant was suddenly speaking something I couldn’t understand.

Nobody would talk to me.Nobody acknowledged me.

I remember standing there half creeped out and half laughing, basically thinking:

“Are you serious? You guys are doing this now?”

It honestly felt like they were excluding me on purpose because I’d figured it out.Then everything cut again and I was back in my room.At that point I was done with the experiment and wanted to wake up.

So I woke up. Or at least I thought I did.

I grabbed my phone and noticed it was dead. I plugged it into the charger, laid in bed for a bit, tried getting up but felt weirdly weak, then closed my eyes and opened them again.

That’s when I realized my phone wasn’t dead because none of that had actually happened.The entire waking-up sequence had been another dream.Only after that did I actually wake up for real.

Honestly the weirdest part wasn’t even the people eating me.

It was how both times the dream seemed to react to me saying I knew I was dreaming.

The second time everyone basically acted like I no longer belonged there and started speaking nonsense so I couldn’t understand them.

It almost felt like I was being kicked out of my own dream.

Has anyone else ever had something like this happen? Because I’ve been laughing about it all day, but at the time it was one of the creepiest and strangest dreams I’ve ever had.