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Dream turned lucid, turned religious experience(?)

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(This is copy pasted from r/luciddreaming, I am the original author and this is a genuine experience).

So i woke up this morning, at around 9 am, went to my 10am lecture did some chores and then came home and went back to sleep before work tonight.

During my nap I started dreaming that I was very sick in a log cabin and coughing up some sort of mucus/fungus substance into my hands. I quickly get up and leave the log cabin with these mushroomy growths in my hand and im on the riverside of the river that runs through my home town. I start walking and then keel over and puke/cough up more of the substance into the river.

I start walking again towards a row of public toilets until I see somebody filming making a tiktok and pointing his phone at me (im unsure if this matter but the person was a real person I know from my hometown). I then realised I had left the cabin completely naked bar the stereotypical love heart boxer shorts. I decide to run to my destination and halfway there I turn around and realise he was actually filming somebody that was quite a bit behind me so I stop panicking this I look down and remember what was in my hands.

The substances starts breaking apart, similar to how fatty meat does when stretched. I start walking past the rows of public toilets and I realise they are all locked bar one halfway through the row which visibly had its door open. I walk up to it and instinctively throw all the substance into the toilet before realising that the liquid in the toilet was neon green and there was a bright red snake coiled up in bowl staring at me.

I turn around and run away until I get to a road and start weaving in and our of traffic until im cut off by the train moving down the tracks. I walk alongside the tracks going the same direction as the train until it clears and I move from the roadside onto the quay of my hometown.

I stop to catch my breathe and then think to myself "man this is a dream, it isnt real theres no need to panic". My immediate reaction whenever a dream becomes lucid is to try fly around as a sort of test. In the past what usuallt happens is I fly straight up and then wake up thinking "oh cool a lucid dream, I wish I could've slept a bit longer but oh well".

This time was different however. As I flew i realised I wasn't waking up yet so I started to control my direction and start flying alongside cars and waving at people and doing flips mid air to entertain people. This goes on for a relative while and I start flying into orbit then free falling back to earth and stopping myself at the last second. I then realise I can do more than fly if this really is a lucid dream so, naturally, as im flying i decide to give myself the powers of the human torch so I could look cool while flying.

Suddenly mid air I stop flying and I am in a dark brown room at a table. At the table there is an entity that no matter how much I think I cannot describe it back to anyone. On the table there is 12 little canisters in 2 rows of 6. 10 of them are visibly empty and the last 2 are floating just above the table with a strange black liquid in them. I hear a voice (presumably from the entity though I have no memory of seeing a mouth) say "What is last wish before you die". Then another voice in my head tells me that the canisters are a physical manifestation of my life force. I think for a second and say "for the people I love to be successful and full of joy". Everything starts fading to black and i mentally accept my death.

Everything was black for an indescribable amount of time. I had no thoughts or being but I was "perceiving" the nothingness.

I then woke up and jump straight up in bed. I had a mini panic attack but my girlfirend helsp me centre myself, text my friends about the experience and decide to post it here.

I feel like i've genuinly been reborn, althought I dont belive that to be possible. I've never had a lucid dream that lasted this long, as I said ive only ever woke up straight away upon realising i was dreaming. I've also never actively tried to lucid dream.

Does anyone have any insight into what this could mean, if anything, or any advice on how to continue my day normally (I have work in an hour)?

Apologies if there is grammar mistakes, im writing this basically just after waking up as to make sure i could remember anything.

Edit 1: It might be worth nothing I am on ssris and even previously I have had very vivid dreams but nothing like this. Also in the past the theme of fungus has been present in my nightmares.

Posted Feb 19, 2026, 3:49 PM UTC · edited

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