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    "I love alligators!", First LD- LUCID

    by , 08-15-2015 at 01:28 PM (930 Views)
    So I did a WBTB WILD last night (meditated while waiting to go back to bed), but it didn't work. I tried the WILD three times, and each time I would get the vibrations, but I never really lost the sense of my body. Oh, well, it ended up not mattering because my RCs and MILD mantra kicked in and saved the night. Lucid in only five days since I started? Not bad.

    I'm in my room, in the dark, looking at my monitor. One of my speakers is to the right. I hear singing from it. It is in another language. I think its Welsh. I know that it is coming from down stairs and that it must be my dad, who sings all the time (he does this IWL, and yes, some of the songs are in Welsh). I'm not sure why, but I go to the bathroom, maybe with the idea of taking a shower and getting up. The makeup of the house is completely different from my WL house, but I don't notice this. The light is on in the bathroom. I look in the mirror. I look normal, except my hair is sticking out on all sides so it looks like I have a saucer around my head. The top of my head, my crown, is also shaved, like a Christian monk. This triggers a reality check. The light in the bathroom must have gone off, because I performed the RC in the dark. I plug my nose and try to breathe. I still can! I become semi-lucid, but I'm so surprised at being able to breathe through closed nostrils that I perform the RC again. I thought my fingers might have slipped and half-opened a nostril. I'm excited, so I run out into the hall, where everything is dark. I whisper "Turn on the lights," or something like that, but nothing happens. I'm whispering because I have a crazy idea that my dad is downstairs, and I don't want him to know I'm lucid dreaming (I get secretive about weird stuff IWL, and this is why I figured this dream was not completely lucid). I find a switch and flick it. The lights come on. I run towards a balcony. Steps lead downstairs to a wall full of large windows. The steps are tiled with wood and the banister beside them is of some exotic wood. I can see that outside it is that time before dawn when everything is gray or deep shades of blue. As I run down the stairs, the sun comes up and by the time I make it outside it is morning. The sky is a brilliant shade of denim blue, without a cloud in the sky.

    I am in a cheery neighborhood with comfortable looking homes, most of them ranch style. For some reason the neighborhood reminds me of Norther California. It is definitely not my own WL neck of suburbia. There are paths leading to other houses, and the spaces between the paths are mulched with red cedar.


    Everything looks a bit blurry, so I shout "Clarify!". Nothing happens, but it must have worked because the last scene in the dream is very vivid. I remember that if I get too excited I will wake up, so I think stabilizing would be a good idea. I try to rub my hands together, but I am wearing these large red oven mits. I take off the mits and rub my hands together. I don't feel more grounded or anything. I have an idea that it might be a good idea to twirl for further stabilization. But I remember that turning around can also teleport you somewhere else, so I don't end up doing it. I want to explore the neighborhood first.

    I look for something to do. I see a dream character across the road, checking her mail. She's this girl I knew from a farm in Northern California when I hitchhiked down the West Coast from Seattle. She has a cute coffee-cream brown face with a sprinkling of freckles on her nose. Her eyes are the color of brown autumn leaves, and her chocolate hair is pulled back in a ponytail. She is wearing blue sweatpants. I forget what she was wearing for her top. I run over to her, and she backs up into the siding of her house. She looks pretty calm, nevertheless, to see a strange fat guy sprinting towards her.

    "Do you want the table?" she asks when I arrive. I don't remember if there was a table nearby she could give me, but I certainly didn't want it.

    "No," I reply with crazy enthusiasm. "I want to tell you a story!"

    I don't know what story I had in mind, but she says something I can't quite recall, but that ends with "alligators."

    "I love alligators!" I cry.


    I wake up.

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    Updated 08-15-2015 at 01:41 PM by 88553

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    Comments

    1. DannyCool's Avatar
      Man what was it like to have a real lucid?
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    2. mzungu's Avatar
      It felt pretty normal, actually, except for the excitement. Just like WL.
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    3. AnotherDreamer's Avatar
      HAhahahaha, aw man that second half of the dream cracked me up..."I love alligators!"
      You are such a good writer, I mean WOW, I'm really excited to read more of your dreams.
      Lucid in only five days since I started? Not bad.
      Not bad indeed! That's quite impressive, and you had a really great lucid dream too. Congatulations!

      There are a couple small notes that I feel obliged to add. You don't actually have to stabilize when you become lucid or when things get blurry. In fact, worrying about needing to stabilize can have the opposite of the intended effect. When things get blurry, you can just wait through it patiently for the dream to become more vivid again while grounding yourself by increasing your awareness, letting yourself be calm, and quieting your mind. I think that engaging your senses by rubbing your hands together or interacting with the dream environment can help you to ground yourself in the dream by helping you to forget about any worrying thoughts and to become more in touch with the dream around you. One thing that a very experienced DV member (Sivason) once suggested was to look at some dream object really closely and admire all of the intricate details of that object.

      That being said, I think that stabilization techniques can help a lot if you believe that they will help. I used to rub my hands together and spin in a circle when I first started learning about lucid dreaming, and I found them to be helpful for a while. These days when things get dark or blurry, I wait patiently for the dream to become more vivid and I let myself relax so that my body can slip into a deeper state of sleep if I am in fact starting to wake up.

      Here's a great podcast by Ophelia and Canislucidus where they discuss stabilization if you're interested. Q&A Episode 3: Time Dilation, Stabilization, Common Lucid Dreaming Mistakes

      Awesome dream, I'm excited for you to have even more!
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    4. mzungu's Avatar
      Thank you AnotherDreamer! I'm certainly excited to have more! I already have a goal for next dream, so I'm using it as part of my MILD visualization. I won't ruin it for you!

      Not bad indeed! That's quite impressive, and you had a really great lucid dream too. Congatulations!
      Thank you! Hopefully it's not a one-off and I can keep this up.

      I think that engaging your senses by rubbing your hands together or interacting with the dream environment can help you to ground yourself in the dream by helping you to forget about any worrying thoughts and to become more in touch with the dream around you. One thing that a very experienced DV member (Sivason) once suggested was to look at some dream object really closely and admire all of the intricate details of that object.
      Thanks for the advice. I'll stop worrying about it then and just be mindful. That's something I wanted to do in the dreamworld anyways. I'll probably end up using Sivason's tip too, just because I already do that IWL when I stare at a flower for ten minutes or watch a bee gathering nectar.


      That being said, I think that stabilization techniques can help a lot if you believe that they will help.
      This is something I have to learn. Expectation. The lights didn't go on when I asked, and the dream didn't clarify either. Oh well, I'm just a beginner. I'll get there in time.

      Thank you for the podcast as well. I'll have to find some time when I can really listen to it and digest. There's so much to learn, it's crazy.
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    5. DannyCool's Avatar
      OMG this is great news. Can't believe you have done it so quickly. You have opened up another dimension to your life. I knew you would do it with your commitment and skill and the help of dreamviews. He is such a great guy and helps people a lot in other aspects of his life. He deserves this. Enjoy your dreams. Woweeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Oh by the way don't be afraid of that alligator but that girl with the blue pants knew what you were up to!
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    6. mzungu's Avatar
      Thank you Danny!

      that girl with the blue pants knew what you were up to!
      TBH I don't really know what I was up to with the DC haha. I said I was going to tell her a story, but all I did was spout about how much I liked alligators.
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    7. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Congrats on your first LD!
      I love your excitement and enthusiasm, both in and outside of the dream!
      Many more to come, keep up the great work!
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    8. HypnoDestiny's Avatar
      Sounds like an awesome first lucid! Great job!
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    9. mzungu's Avatar
      Thank you both Dreamer and HypnoDestiny!