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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/coffeecake1010 on 2025-06-09 21:59:40+00:00.

So I am an advent lucid dreamer. I lucid dream frequently, and each time I do, I am able to do so with more of my consciousness. Lucid dreaming is a trained skill and I’m pretty good at at now.

The other night, I was lucid dreaming that I was sleeping in my room but felt a negative energy. I kept trying to wake myself up, but I kept waking up back into my dream (similar to the move inception). Each time I would wake up, I’d be in my bed again, feeling distressed and feeling the same negative energy and trying to wake my real self up.

Finally, a portal showed up at my balcony and instead of waking up again, I walked into the portal and entered… what I could best describe as an entirely different world or planet. It’s like something you couldn’t make up with your imagination alone. I’ve never seen it before or anything similar to it in movies or in real life, and it looked like a real place. There were no humans, only giant mechanical like structures, and the whole place was dark. The sky was dark. The structures were made of steel or a strong dark metal, and made with tiny “blocks” or it looked very blocky, with hints of red metal. I was on a ride of sorts, seeing the ‘city’ and all the different structures. I was slightly afraid, but in awe as I observed the city. The structures would had lights that would blink, and it seemed like that were all in action or working, like machines. It felt vivid, and remember seeing even the texture of the blocky steel up close.

I then suddenly woke up and this lucid dream really made me think… could lucid dreaming be something more? Are dreams more than just our imagination? Could we ‘astral project’ into a real place while we lucid dream?

Does anyone else have a similar experience?