Thread: New here and learning about lucid dreaming...

Hello,

My name is John in the past week or so I have been trying to learn about lucid dreaming I have attempted a WILD today at a mid-day nap but failed I know I was awake for the 1st hour and a half because I laid down and at 4 and woke up at 7 but i had heard my phone make a noise it was at text at 5:30.

I laid and tried to not think about anything which is quite difficult because even just the thought of not thinking about anything would pop up in my inner head i noticed if i drifted and my thoughts I would suddenly realize I was drifting and snap back to focus it was a weird feeling.... I had 2 random twitches one close to my ankle and the other near my wrist after it happened I realized it MAY have been a hypnagogic jerk as my body fell asleep .. i think...

Sometimes when I tried to focus I would feel an uncomfortable feeling in my eyes and it was making it hard to stay focused, I seen some of those "swirling light patterns" that people report but I see that almost always when I am going to sleep if i focus on the darkness of my closed eyes.

There was a point where I felt a really extreme heaviness to my body that felt like it might be sleep paralysis but I didnt want to try and force myself to move to ruin the state I was in.

There was also a moment where I felt like I was turning my left hand but it wasnt moving physically... that was kinda weird...

I tried counting my breathes to help me focus on it "No thoughts breathing in" and then saying out in my head the word one->stretched out the length of the outward breath.

I tried visualizing objects at first a tried to visualize a red car i could imagine the shape of it but couldn't see it, then while i was just laying there I seen a large .. its kinda hard to explain in words I will make it in Photoshop the best i can.

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Then it went away and i couldn't visualize it again .

Then after a while I just fell asleep completely I don't really remember falling asleep but when I awoke I tried immediately closing my eyes and thinking about any dreams I had and nothing came to mind so i had nothing to put in my dream journal which i started yesterday.

2 Days ago I started doing random reality checks i drew RC above my right thumb small and every time I notice it, I do the check if I have all 10 fingers and they are normal, then i do the nose plug check and then the finger through palm check.