i had my first lucid dream on saturday, september 23. me and my friend where trying to do WILDs but we weren't really sure how to do it and weren't able to get to the computer to look it up. so we basically just winged it. after 5-6 hours of sleep i woke up, we had forgotten to turn the alarm clock on, but i woke up 15 minutes after it was supposed to go off. wierd. i woke my friend up and we attempted to WILD, but failed miserably. we had set the clock to go off in about 2 ours before we went back to sleep. this is when i had my first lucid dream. when i woke up, i told my friend and he didn't believe me.

i really had no idea how to make him believe. i explained to him everthing. reality checks, levels of lucid dreaming (how you may be aware of your dream, but not be able to control it very well), etc. he still didn't believe. the part he had most trouble with believing is that i basically just woke up and did a reality check in dream to realize i was dreaming. he didn't think this was possible. his backup was that in all his dreams he has absolutely no say it what he does, he just goes with it. i explained that in order to do a reality check in dream, you have to make it a habit by doing it, even when you know your not dreaming. he found this stupid.

this is what made me most mad: he refused to believe that by doing reality checks regulary, you can make your body do them in dream. i gave him a perfect example: biting your nails. i do it, and he knows that. its a habit, i do it in my dreams.

he continued to kick me down, saying that i was lying and that it never happened, or that i was dreaming that i had some control over my dream. so i suggested that he just hear me out. that he should try to do reality regularly. again he said that it was stupid and a waste of time. i think its because he now realized that it has some possiblity of being true, but he doesn't want to try it and be wrong.

another thing he deemed false was dream control. again i argued saying: if your mind creates your dreams, and you become aware that your dreaming (making your mind concious), then why can't you manipulate your dreams to your liking. again, without any back up, he called it stupid and not worth arguing about. the same thing is happening with my brother: they say they won't believe it until they see it, but they refused to even make the slightest attempt to make it work.

so heres my question: how do i convince my friends and family that what i say is true, or how to i convince them to try it for themselves.

here is a link to my dream journal, so you can see exactly what went down in my dream: http://lucidjournal.livejournal.com/

thanks for reading this until the end.