Wake initiated lucid dreams

Something very strange happened to me about a week ago and it's been haunting me ever since. I was lying down in my car, with the seat all the way back, and I started spinning violently. It was like I was falling down a hurricane or a tornado. My body flailing with the currents of the wind, but I was on ground. I was stable. I could see people, but they were blurry and they were yelling at me. Screaming at me and I was trying to scream back. I could hear myself screaming to the person in the passenger seat, even though I knew I wasn't inside my car anymore. I was in a drunken rage, stumbling and cursing around; attacked by blur and white noise. My heart was pounding and my adrenaline was pumping. I was so frightened of an endless swirling; frightened of an endless and constant fear of something. I felt like I was dying or withering away very slowly and would never be able to stop or control it. And then I woke up.

The girl in my passenger seat said I was sleeping soundly. Perfect. Like an angel. I was astonished. I've seen people toss and turn in their sleep, strangled by their dreams and their nightmares. I've seen people yell, kick, scream, cry; all while unconsciously doing so. This made me wonder why that didn't happen to me, so I researched it.

Lucid dreams; yes I was already very aware of what lucid dreams were, and they have always caught my interest a great deal before this incident. Lucid dreams are dreams in which the dreamer knows that he/she is dreaming, and thusly, with the knowledge of being in a dream, they are able to manipulate the dream however way they wish. But I had always thought that dreams were things that came late into sleep. At least a half hour after you had already fallen asleep, but this one came instant; so quick that I didn't notice the transition between reality and the dream (which of course, you never do with real dreams anyways, but come on…).

W.I.L.D., or wake-initiation of lucid dreams, is where a person goes directly from being awake and aware to being in a dream state with unbroken self-awareness. This is what happened to me. Funny enough, symptoms include, but are not limited to, a falling sensation, rapid vibrations, sequence of loud sounds, and a twirling feeling.