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Hearing Real World Sounds While Dreaming-Very Funny...And Interesting

by Travis
(Florida)

So, I was in High school when this happened. 9th grade. Sleeping during math class, I could still hear all of the 'real world'. Everything my teacher said stuck with my mind.


Realizing I was lucid dreaming for the first time in school, I got up and went to the hottest girl in class and proceeded to fondle her. Seconds later, "what the !@#$ are you doing?!?" she yells. I back off immediately confused and afraid thinking I wasn't dreaming after all. Then I wake up. Almost like my subconscience was messing with me. Thank god.

Another incident in school was much more interesting than cool. Same class. Same year. It may not fall under 'lucid' but I was lucid. I do not remember my dream but I remember my teacher waking me up to a question about what he was talking about (trying to humiliate me).

Surprisingly to me and the rest of my class I knew exactly what the answer was because I heard everything he said while I was sleeping. Like my eyes were shut down making their own landscapes but my ears were trapped with 'real sound'.

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Sep 19, 2016
 Me too NEW
by: Anonymous

Ya that happened to me once. My teacher was reading some book and in my dream i imagined the story while being told by a narrator(the teacher).
Jan 25, 2018
 First very lucid dream plus second lucid dream the day after. NEW
by: Anonymous

Day 1:This happened to me recently. I fell asleep while watching youtube videos in bed. My videos are set to keep playing without having to click. I was hearing all the dialog from the videos while I was having an amazingly sexy dream. The out of place sound is what clued me in that I was dreaming. I fell asleep watching some scientific stuff, so all the videos that kept playing were more scientific stuff and its kind of hard to keep a sexy dream going while listening to some guy explain science stuff. At one point I think it played a sports highlight video because during this sexy dream out of nowhere a bunch of sports fans were in the room shouting about the sports and the girl was out. I think I may have been slipping in and out of the lucidity. Sad, I never got to bone the girl. Hopefully next time.

Day 2: I had a semi-lucid dream the day after the first one. Another sexy dream, still nothing happened. Not really sure that it was lucid but I was hearing my surroundings while dreaming. While I was dreaming I was hearing my roommate having sex with his girlfriend. I know this because I woke up and heard it. Feels bad man, my roommate is getting laid for real and I cant even get laid in my dreams.
Mar 17, 2018
 Weird dream NEW
by: Eric

Has anyone heard of this happening. Last night I was dreaming I was walking down the street and in front of me about 25 feet there was a man a young girl about 7 or 8 and a dog.They didn't know I was behind them my alarm went off and in a split second b4 I could wake up it appeared the three heard my alarm also because all three head snapped backed looking as if to see where the sound came from.. Spooky right

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