[wiretwister]

when does a dream stop being a dream and become something else ... ? ...

wrote yesterday about a strange mood I am in ... so this is a capper ... had a very active dream last night . so bad had to take xanex to get back to sleep , the very lucid dream continued till I awoke ... I am sure I was awake as I looked at the clock and began thinking about the day ahead but then continued fighting with a red and a blue pillow ... yes pillows ... one of the strangest experiences of my life .... then I actually crawled to the sides of the bed looking for them ... of course they were not there ... I may have been waking up at first, but not after I looked at the clock ... I was awake ...

psychotic ... or am I jumping the gun ... it's only my 3rd lucid dream or so ... not much experience in that area ... just wondering .....

I like this new med (doxepin) but I believe it is beggining to woop my ***** ....

this is embarassing ... but I have no answer .... so afraid it is the drug ... hoping this does not return and goes away soon ....

If lucid dreaming is psychosis, I'm in trouble. I have vivid, real life like dreams almost nightly and have since childhood. I wake my husband up crying, whimpering or kicking frequently. Sometimes I wake up kinda and try to wake up all the way but can't. I just assumed this was my normal and not psychosis . I'm sorry you suffer with this too.

[Curiosity77]

I've had lucid dreams that felt like psychosis while asleep, like not like normal dreams or normal lucid dreams at all. At one point it got to where I couldn't tell for sure if i was awake or asleep, so i had to make up ways to test and figure it out. My strategy was to drink water, and if my mouth got wet i was awake, if it stayed dry i was asleep. Bizarre, but I actually had to do that. I was taking the quit smoking drug Champix (i think it's called Chantix in some countries). Very unsettling. I quit smoking though, so that was good.
I hope it settles down for you, scary stuff!