Thread: First Lucid Dream! (Less than 10 seconds, though... hehe)

Congratulations, and yeah I think refraining from excitement is the first step you need to take, and as you know interacting with your environment helps most people too.

Good work I too only just had one the another night and one last night, Did nothing in the first one, but the second one I started flying and yeah like you say I lost it soon after. Just glad I have actually experienced one and now to work on keeping them alive.

Grats on lucid!

Yeah getting over excited in a lucid dream can wake you up just like that! I've had experiences like yours where I couldn't hold onto the dream because it faded so fast! It makes me mad, but the few seconds are so cool!

@USA isn't mild just the technique before you DILD?

Thanks for all the responses!
Just to add to my first post: The realization that I was dreaming hit me like a train. A train of consciousness. It was overwhelming, but truly the most otherworldly, spectacular experience I remember having! I hope for another tonight. I'll keep my cool this time.

Yeah the way I have been coping with this (I have only had three short lucids) is just practise. Every time I become lucid I know I'm getting a little bit better at stability and control. Have fun

Originally Posted by Gerter

@USA isn't mild just the technique before you DILD?

Sometimes it could be, but a DILD is like when you do a reality check. MILD is when you just repeating something over and over so it is in your head while you sleep, so you could say you are going to RC in your mantra so that could be a mix of MILD and DILD I guess. But my DILDs and MILDs have never been at the same time.

Wait, so MILDing you don't do RCs but DILD (or is it DEILDing???) you do? What if you do both? What if both don't work. What happens if I use my finger? Isn't that FDILD or a FMILD or is it just a FILD? Can I wiggle other things other than my finger? Maybe then it would be a LILD (using a leg) or a EILD (using an ear) or a PILD (using your... pancreas?)?
But seriously, I didn't know there was a major delineation between doing RCs and not. To me that seems like separating based on who butters there toast on which side. Or at all really, since I thought everyone had to do reality checks.

Grats man. The first time is always over quick.

Thanks, C0sm0.
No more lucid dreams, sadly. I did try a WILD (afternoon nap). I didn't even reach sleep paralysis, but I was able to fall asleep, which never happens when I try to nap.

Congrats! The first one is always an extremely powerful feeling. Once you start having more you'll be more calm and all of those things you mentioned should help you stick with the dream and make it more vivid. Stick with it!

WHOA! Had two or three lucid dreams last night! Longer ones... 5 minutes at least, I'd say. I was able to exert minor control, but I kept losing lucidity. That happens to other people, right? I had a hilarious false awakening in which I told five people in my room that I'd had a lucid dream... didn't seem strange at the time that five people were chilling in my room.

This is getting too cool!

Edit: It's not much easier to remember lucid dreams than it is to remember normal dreams, is it?

Edit 2: I'll include the message I sent to Billy, because I've had some doubts...
"First of all, thanks so much for offering to help people this way!
When I was dreaming last night, I was pretty sure I was experiencing lucid dreams (2 or 3 in total). For example, I was able to spawn a part of my personality that I wanted to confront, and it worked (but I'll have to keep summoning it to solve the problem... it was just a superficial confrontation, but it did end nicely).
My problem now is that I'm not sure they were REAL lucid dreams, or just dreams about lucidity. Or perhaps I kept losing lucidity (I think this is most likely). Even if they were just dreams about being lucid, does this mean I'm on track? Mostly it's just difficult to remember them now. When I had my first lucid some nights ago, I had NO doubts that I was in a LD.

Thanks!"

Firstly take a deep breath, that really excited lifting feeling you get in your stomach, get rid of it,
Then you need to start by becoming more adjusted to the dream world and your position in it, rubbing around your body and the floor and walls or anything close-by will get your senses adjusting to the dream which will keep you in the dream and in control and help to make the dream more vivid, when you think you're vivid enough start to do what you wish.
If you still start to feel like your waking up during the dream spin on the spot and imagine a place or a person or something to change your surroundings, rub your hands together is always a good technique.

Sometimes when your lucid you may get frustrated because you know your lucid and say for example you want to fly, but you cant.
I use a mantra repeating to myself over and over "this is my dream, i am in complete control" or something similar, mix it up if u wish say "i can do whatever the FU** i want" or something, if you still cant fly try to use a sort of physical means of flying, one time i grew wings on myself and it helped. Maybe think to yourself "i will turn round and a controllable flying carpet will be there" and expect it to be there.

You can use things like that in your imagination to help you as you learn to trust how much control you have within your dream. there is a word or actual term when you use something as a physical means of doing something you want in an LD i cant remember what the term was but you get the picture i guess.

You can even do things like pull a remote from your pocket which when u press pause it pauses people or the dream world (like in the film click) etc.

have fun LD'ing.

The main key of staying within the dream though is activating your senses to the dream world around you to deepen your visuality and awareness of it. To make logical sense of what's there without coming over excited.

Thank you, Lucydity. You've reminded me of everything I've read but keep forgetting when I actually enter the dream. At least I remembered to rub my hands together.

yeah its basically just enhancing your senses to the dream world and trying not to get over excited. in a nutshell lol. no problem though