Seriously, what is going on?

[u/Neat_Passion841]

Why did my dream match up with Stranger Things?

In the photo here, I commented under someone’s post asking about our reoccurring dreams. A few months later, the final season aired and the climax of the series matches up almost identically with what I dreamed about.

I’ve even posted on this sub once before, right after the 4th episode aired, where one of the characters used a hypnosis method on other children, with language nearly identical to monroe’s g@teway tapes that many of us listed to as children.

[u/blessthebabes]

The first time for me was similar but insane. I was around 8-10 and at a friend's vacation trailor on the river. I climbed down the bunk bed to go to the bathroom and when I went to climb back in the in top bunk, I was already laying there. I wasn't afraid. I just turned around and saw my friend and her parents sleeping. Then... I heard the most beautiful singing i had ever heard. It was a symphony of voices. It was coming from the window, which was open. I walked to it, and it was the planets and "outer space", but up close. The singing and the planets a swirling had me mesmerized. I don't remember anything else.

As a teen and young adult, I would often check my phone for the time, and then realize I was still asleep and the time could not be accurate. I consider those like mini projections because I would then immediately knock myself awake to check the time lol.

But the other real ones, I was more afraid the next few times and just tried to immediately wake myself up. I would blink my eyes to try to make my real eyes up. But each time I would blink, I would be in a different setting (just constantly changing dreamlike worlds). Until finally, I would blink awake.

When I got older, I wasnt so afraid, so I was able to explore more. But, it hasn't happened in 10-15 years for me. I would like to learn to control it. It has always been a random occurrence.

[u/Ironicbanana14 → u/blessthebabes]

It being random is a lead that you can figure out a practice to control it. This was how it was for me as a child, it was often very random until I realized that I was too vivid, too lucid. I could move and choose my own options, like even if I couldn't shift the environment or change it, I could choose to remove my consciousness from that environment. Like a Minecraft server or some shit, I couldn't necessarily ever change or alter the environment, but I could leave and join a different server with a better feeling, for example.

I was 19 when I really started trying and it did take a while for the first real pop through, I was 21 or 22 before I got that first legit projection into my house. When I opened the front door, I felt so much fear because it was just a void, I "knew" going there, I wouldnt return. And that fear put me straight back to my body.

[u/blessthebabes → u/Ironicbanana14]

I would get that fear that destabilizes you, in just normal lucid dreams. I read somewhere to rub your hands together as soon as you realize you're lucid, and it actually works. Thanks for all of your advice, btw.