Thread: Hey everybody! Some questions

Hey guys, I just joined. I found this site yesterday and found the thread about FILD (Finger Induced Lucid Dreaming). It sounded pretty easy so I tried it when I woke up in the middle of the night.

I'm not sure how many reality checks (nose pinches) I did all throughout the night, but I'm like 99% sure that when I did one of them, I could breathe and feel the air on my fingers. Again, I'm not completely sure because it was pretty brief and I was very tired. When I felt it, I don't know what I was thinking, but I was afraid to get up in case it caused me to wake up for some reason.

My questions are, do you guys think that could've been a start to a lucid dream? Also are FILD as easy as I thought they were, or is there an easier technique? I have to wake up for school at 6:15, so I can't spend a lot of time meditating and stuff like that in the middle of the night.

Well, you did a RC and thought about not waking up, so maybe it was the start yes, you are the only one who can judge that properly though.
FILD is a form of WILD, for many its hard but you can always try to check if its hard for you.
The easiest would be DILD, with MILD being the easiest subform.

Yeah, I'm starting to think that I was probably just dreaming about pinching my nose and breathing. But if that was the case wouldn't I become lucid, or does it not always work? DILD is when you observe the scenery and items in your dream and decide if it's real or not, right? In that case I am terrible at being aware if something's not right. I'll go check out MILD and try that tonight. Thanks for the fast reply, btw!

Oh, RCs are there to give you some awareness, so if you don't RC and then stop to think about the result during waking, chances are that you won't do this either in a dream, so then lucidity won't always follow.
DILD is just becoming lucid inside a dream, it doesn't requires checking stuff or not, it could just happen naturally.

So I read about MILD techniques and I decided I'm going to whisper to myself a mantra and after a while try to imagine a scene for my dream to take place. Not sure if this will work because this is my first time, but I can't wait to do it.

Well, tell us how this goes and good luck with it!

So, as I expected, I didn't have a lucid dream last night. For a little bit I was chanting "I will have a lucid dream tonight" and I was trying to imagine me being in school for my dream.

Although I didn't have a LUCID dream I still had a dream that I can recall most of. This is what I wrote when I woke up.
I revised it slightly because I was rushing when I wrote it.

"Some sort of night club with all the people from my school in it. There was a screen with a webcam in one of the lobbies. Somehow my friend and I ended up in school and I'm pretty sure it was empty. At one point in the club my friend and I opened a fridge looking for a drink, only to find a bunch of alcohol. I also talked to some asian girl on the webcam for like 2 seconds. Weird."

I also want to add that while listening to "I Hate Everything About You" by Three Days Grace, I remembered that at one point last night (idk if it was in the same dream) I was playing the drums very briefly. Also I remembed just now that when my friend and I were looking at the alcohol in the fridge, that each bottle I looked at it had a holographic-like text that labeled each dream. I think Skyrim may have influenced that part loldunno. But yeah I think imagining myself being at school before going to sleep influenced this dream. I also remember my friend saying that his dad wants to either meet him in the bathroom, or wants him to go to the bathroom. I forget, but it was pretty random. So yeah...