LukeSid

I can still barely believe I've just had LD #2 but JoannaB's words from my previous lucid posting confirm it.

"A dream about being lucid would not have that kind of self-awareness. It would be for example more like watching a movie in which you were a star and the star does cool stuff because it is a dream, but you would not have real awareness of dream state, it would be happening to you."

And that's it in a nutshell. Also, if I can have dream #2 like this I can have #3 #4..#5 etc...soon even I "Mr self-doubt" has to be convinced More about this dream later...I had one dream before the LD one

04.50 AM I felt ill when I woke up. (that's only happened once before, months ago) I tried to DEILD but, although the after-dream effects were still "white-hot" it failed

Pretty vivid dream. I'm in a pub I think, and there's scaffolding reaching way up to the roof...which looked about the height of Canterbury Cathedral. Someone is trying to fit harness onto me and I think I was supposed to be climbing up this scaffolding. I not happy about this. I hear someone say that the tackle won't fit me (bloody cheek...I'm overweight, but not that much)

"I'm not doing it." I say firmly. "I guarantee that I'm not going up there."

08.00 AM I'm in a virtually featureless bedroom...it's all a bit vague. I'm in there with the wife and there's a double-bed That's a mega DS because we don't even sleep in the same room - except in single beds in a hotel. That's apparently all I needed to make me say "I'm dreaming"

I'm still in the bedroom and no major excitement this time (I've been self-conditioning) But I did forget to RC. I can hear the wife saying something in the distance but I'm too busy to listen.

I bang experimentally on the white wall and the room seems to bow inward (don't do that again I think) This time, everything seems much more stable and I really want to explore I move out of the room to go downstairs. I'm aware of moving down much more easily than I normally would. There's a bannister with a grooved indentation running down the top...I feel my hand running down the polished wood

There's an open door, on the right at the bottom and, in my opinion, a fairly cluttered room (the sort that some older people have, full of momentoes and ornaments and non-coordinated colour schemes. There a small black dog in there (another black dog!) Strangely,I feel like I'm somewhere in Scotland (never been there)

There's a kind of conservatory on the left...not the modern kind but more basic...rectangular, mainly glass and from a much earlier period. This is very cluttered and I can hear a woman speaking from an alcove round on the left-hand side. I'm eager to move round there (my first post-lucid DC, although, based on yesterday's experience, perhaps I should have been more cautious) Maybe my haste to get round there did it, but the dream ended. I tried to DEILD again, but failed...I'm now desperate to work on this problem...it should now be my number-one priority

The next few weeks are going to be wonderful. Looks like my dreams will keep fairly stable, as long as I take it steady. I remembered to keep calm at first...now I must reinforce my conditioning about RC’s …and DEILD mastery is an absolute priority