A first Glimpse

Hi ppl of Dreamviews im Ray :D
Listen to this, my experience so far.

I just joined a three days ago and since ive been trying like hell to get lucid. My nose is all red from being constantly pinched and my mini notebook/journal is all scribbled.

The first day it took me like 2 hours to sleep but I managed to remember my dream although i was not lucid.

The second day I couldnt sleep. Took me over 2 and a half hours to sleep and i just couldnt focus. Real pain. The next morning I have NOTHING. TAB..NAK! Absolutly nothing! Im frustrated because i was sure being so tired and checking constantly that i had one and simply didnt remember.
Wich brings me to this morning:

No problem sleeping :) thats good. I wake up at 5:30 with nothing. Again. Now im really P...ED OFF:mad:. I do a reality check like every day, get up to drink juice because im really thirsty then go back to bed. I am just fuming. Plus im sure my last though was NOT my mantra since i stopped at some point:bang:. So im trying again for a while and just decide to try and sleep a lil before getting up.

And then: I dream that im in the car with my family. I notice a thing that looks like a square spider web on my right window. I open and close it a couple of times to see wether its inside or outside. Its outside. I look over my head and see a spider. Not a huge one; just a normal, real life spider. Brown, wich i dont like. I sit in the backseat so theres an empty seat next to me at my left. I tell my mom and she says shel take care of it later. So i do what i would do in reality and change seats while constantly keeping my eye on it :P. Were back home and park on the side of the road on our street. While my family goes home, I stay near the car for my bug. I slip my head in the front window and look at the backseat. The radio is playing my fav band Billy Talent. Diamond on a Landmine. I remember the sound. Then (first thing out of the ordinary) I see the small tv screen in our car on some kind of pole...thing. For a couple seconds i look at it and see it start to jump to the beat. Like boing boing like in a cartoon.

Splitsecond. Im dreaming. First though in my mind. I pinch my nose and breathe right through. Oh. Shit. Then the dream becomes all blurry and pow. Flash of white. I wake up. Or not. I did my homework and i know sometimes it seems like u wake up and u dont. False awakening. Yup. Still dreamin. As soon as i realise that its a false awakening I wake up for real. Now i have something to write in my journal! Those last events happened in a blink of an eye. Literally. But i know it wasnt a "real" lucid. First of all, i had very little control. Second, it was not as real as the real world. At least not after i realised i was dreaming. Third, I woke up almost instantly. Fourth, I didnt feel that excitement, exhilaration ur supposed to feel when u find out. Its like i didnt have the time and i was too pushed around to feel in control.

So yeah any tips? Comments? Id like tips since im just a noob :) Is there a reason why i woke up like that? Maybe i just wasnt tired anymore and woke up like every morning. My dream ended at 7:30. Also take note that my brother and sister are awake at 7 and they get noisy when i sleep in. Maybe they woke me up? Or just distracted me enough to lose focus?

Ray :P

No tips from me. Just keep up your dream journal. And keep optimistic. You've already done more than I have and I've been trying hard for a bit now :/

Agreed with Jason, keep to your dream journal. I don't agree with you on one point though Ray...that was a "real" lucid dream!! If only for a moment you had that realization, that moment of clarity where you thought, in your words, "Oh. Shit." That is one of the best feelings, and the unfortunate part is that it very commonly gets you very excited, which in the beginning will likely wake you up or push you to an FA.

Keep working on your journal, concentrate on the details and overall just relax and go with the flow..you'll be LDing more in no time.

Great job! Just keep at what you're doing and you'll be fine. Nothing to suggest that you don't already know.

Keep it up! It is normal to wake up right away during your first lucid dream. With more practice and experience, you should be able to stay in the dream longer.

Ah just because you don't seem to excited you could still be thinking wtf!? in the back of your head. Like this isn't even possible and then waking up. But I remember few I've had blurred out like that. With me everything would be really clear until I looked closely at my hands as an RC. Then it would blur out. For a while there I couldn't look at my hands or everything would go blurry and I would either loose lucidity or wake up. Like my first lucid dream I immediately lost lucidity after realizing I was in a dream then switching to a new non lucid dream where I was doing back flips because I was excited and had my first lucid. Go figure right?

But as everyone else said just keep going and that definitely was a REAL lucid there.

Thank you all for your words of encouragement :) Hopefully more will come soon ;)