First Lucid Dream just an hour ago.

Hello, I was just so fascinated by my first lucid dream I had that I just had to post something here.

I've been trying to LD for a few months now, and for the most part I've been successful for accurate dream recall, but I was never able to trigger a LD - for some reason induction techniques never took hold on me. Anyways, I woke up early this morning(5:00 AM), so I decided to spend some time browsing the forums here. After reading up on a couple of interesting methods I decided I might as well try a few. Half of me wanted to get back to sleep and I really didn't expect any results, so I just went and tried to go to sleep on the couch... About half way through I felt like I was failing, and because I was tired, I just thought I'd go to sleep anyways(unknown to me that I was already asleep :lol: ...I think.) After sitting a while I felt myself drawn up into sitting position without actually moving a muscle - that was when I realized I was dreaming and became Lucid:boogie:. I was able to get up and stretch my arms of my on volition - and then I woke up lying on the couch again:?. One thing that I should probably note was that when I was moving it felt like I was moving through water - something I've seen in other dreams only when I'm about to wake up... I suppose I should have gone through the steps for prolonging the dream, but hey, this was my first.:)

It may not seem like much, but as my first Lucid Dream I found it rather fascinating - unlike normal dreams that come to me mostly as memories after I wake up, this one was in real time that I could actually experience. So I decided to record it here(6:30 AM)

Hopefully I'll perfect the techniques that I used to be able to LD more often:)

Cool. Lets hope the first of many.

For what its worth, the times I have really really tried hard at the MILD technique,
it seems to have worked.

Theres times where it has failed, but I always know my heart wasn't in it.

very nice man; i remember when i had my first LD, it was like 2 min long, but it was amazing

i am very new to all this, i started a dream journal 1 week ago.

i know what you mean by, normal dreams being in past tense. so a lucid dream feels present tense?, thats somthing iv had trouble understanding, did it 'feel' as real + vivid as normal everyday life ?

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Originally Posted by pond weed

did it 'feel' as real + vivid as normal everyday life ?

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well, i my own experience regular/past tense dreams are like maybe 10-30% of reality, and the first/only lucid dream I've had was more like 70-80% real graphics-wise, and emotionally the change is ENORMOUS. you are able to 'feel' and experience everything as if you were awake.

awsome, thats what i was hopeing.

when you say 'real', are you talking about;

a) the feeling of realness

b) or real in the sense, newtons laws of gravity real

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Originally Posted by pond weed

awsome, thats what i was hopeing.

when you say 'real', are you talking about;

a) the feeling of realness

b) or real in the sense, newtons laws of gravity real

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as i've said earlier- visuallythey are somewhat better, but what topped it of was how emotionally real they were. have never felt such freedom, ecstatic freedom if you will.

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Originally Posted by yuriythebest

as i've said earlier- visuallythey are somewhat better, but what topped it of was how emotionally real they were. have never felt such freedom, ecstatic freedom if you will.

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Hi all I started a dream journal a week ago recording dreams no LD as yet. Bit dissappointed but I read be patient. I often do reality checks through the day, look at hand ,am I dreaming and so on. Is there others I can try? Thanks, :banana::banana::banana::banana:

Yay! :boogie: More to come I'm sure.

Awesome man :) keep it up!

Wow, sounds great! Hope you cant keep them going, my lucid dreams have almost always been this strategy of WBTB, I find it is easy if you have trouble with reality checks and the like. Good luck Phantom

Congrats! Good luck on perfecting those techniques! :)

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

Yay! :boogie: More to come I'm sure.

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Hi Ninja all those numbers after the letters do they represent how many dreams you've had and what areas they've been in? Hope you understand what I mean. Still no LD as yet but I have good recall of the nights dreams. Dream't of a friend who has passed on annoyed with myself I didn't relise I was dreaming and LD. Oh well off to bed now journal close by see what tonight offers. Any advice please bye.............:banana::banana::banana::banana:

Congratulations! Here's to many more! :cheers:

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Originally Posted by pond weed

awsome, thats what i was hopeing.

when you say 'real', are you talking about;

a) the feeling of realness

b) or real in the sense, newtons laws of gravity real

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What I dreamed last night was much more vivid than anything I'd ever dreamed before. It was almost as if I was truly there. Except that it ws snowing and I didn't feel cold. It just felt like it was real. Does that make sense? :oops: