Thread: My first lucid dream!! ...I think I need some pointers >_>

So, I've always been really interested in dreams and maybe a year ago I found out about lucid dreams. It seemed like a lot of work and I didn't think I could do it. However, last night, I tried for the first time and I DID IT. I was so amazed!

I read some stuff on this website and it really helped. I wrote down some phrases like "I will remember my dream tonight" and "I will have a lucid dream" and "I will do a reality check". I think I was going for the DILD technique, but I may have accidentally done the WILD technique without trying to. I believe I had a few false awakenings, hell, my lucid dream was a false awakening, haha.

So, I did a reality check (the one where you try to push your fingers through your hand) and it definitely didn't feel right, and I knew I was dreaming. But then, I woke up in my bed. I got up, but noticed my giant wall mirror had switched walls and the reflection was definitely not right, then I began to notice the blur of the room and how dark it was, so I immediately looked down at my hands and start yelling "increase focus", "focus now", "bright now"

And to my amazement, things began to clear and this ambient light filled the room! I knew I was dreaming and aware at this point, so I tried some things out.

The first was a jump-fly thing. Needless to say it was an epic fail, and no different from a normal jump. But then I tried running up the walls in a gravity defying way, kind of like in that game "Prototype", and I managed to do that, and I didn't fall to the ground, its almost like I floated or just appeared there.

I was ready to leave my room to explore but then I closed my eyes for just a second, and the next thing I know I wake up in my bed, actually awake.

I tried to go back to sleep and get more lucid dreams, and I think I did, but I barely had a chance to look at my hands to stabilize it before the dream collapsed. I just gave up after a point, I started to feel mentally exhausted.

Sorry to go on and on, its just. WOW. I never thought something like that could happen. I'm definitely gonna try again tonight, Anything you think I may be doing wrong here? Or something I could improve on? Point me to some good tutorials?

I LOVE DREAMING.

Way to go crash.The experience of lucidity....theres nothing quite like it.A freedom you could never feel in reality.My most recent lucid dream that I had was intense but i wasnt lucid the whole time.
I was a football player on a snowy mountain doing drills with a team for practice.The coach was my sister and we were just obeying everything she said.
I didnt realize i was dreaming.Then we were joggin down a gradual slope on the mountain adn all of the sudden i see players in front of me have snowboards and are speedig down the mountain.As I neared to where they had been the mountain had become way steeper and a snowboard just appeared under my feet.I tried to grab onto my sister but she made me go down it.It was scary because i dont know how to snowboard in reality. It was sort of like an automatic ride though were the board was taking me around twusts and turns over bumps and jumps all the way till the end.As the slope of the mountain ended and i was slowing down.I came to the realization that I was Okay.I then realized how strange things were and realized it couldnt possibly be real.So I decided i wanted to go again and I teleported myself back to the top of the mountain and did it 3 more times.Each time i went off bigger cliffs including on the last ride where i wasnt even worried about landing on my feet and i JUST DECIDD TO FALL OFF A 100 FOOT CLIFF.iT WAS CRAZY.