Thread: Your Most Inspiring Lucid Success Stories!

I created this forum for all of the people who are desperate for lucidity, but are either impatient or having a hard time getting started. I happen to be the former, but anyhow, if you have inspiring stories of lucidity, this is the place to post them!

My first success with the WILD technique was a complete accident.

I had woken up in the night and was very restless. I spent a long time just trying to go to sleep, not have an LD or WILD or anything. I was tossing and turning constantly until I finally just stopped and decided to lay still for a long time. I was on my side. My arm was starting to hurt, so I rolled onto my back and the huge wave of comfort was wonderful. I was finally feeling tired, though, my legs felt like they were quivering and my body felt strange, too. The feelings got stronger and I began to feel a sense of disconnection with my body. I already knew what was happening. I was approaching sleep paralysis. I thought, what the butt, might as well try out another WILD. I relaxed and focused on the sensations until my whole body began to vibrate and I was thrust into the usual feelings of SP; the ringing, the humming, the vibrating. This time, however, the humming sounds I was used to began to morph into laughter that echoed in my head. I could feel myself grinning and sitting on something hard, yet at the same time I felt my body still in bed and motionless. Those feelings began to disappear and I lost consciousness for a few seconds until I was left with nothing but darkness, the laughter, and something hard under my rump. I came to and thought, "I guess it's time to open my eyes." and so I did. I was in my school during some celebration, laughing with my friends.

So, there began my first WILD-induced lucid.

Thanks for posting. I'm wondering if I should try WILD... right now I'm attempting a combo of visualization MILD and DILD, is that likely to get results with consistency?

MILD is the only way ive gotten an ld. use it with WBTB and your set

Huh. So far I've only had success with DILD. (Unless that was a MILD I had last night... I'll call it a DMILD)

Something that always inspires me when I'm losing interest is remembering the very first conscious thought I had while in a dream.

I was (dreaming) sitting in the passenger side of a car when I became lucid for the first time. Nothing in particular turned me lucid, I had just been trying to pull it off for a while, and I realised this wasn't reality. Everything started to fade slightly, but I remembered a good stabilisation technique was to grab and feel objects. Looking about the dashboard, I couldn't see anything to pick up. Then I noticed there was a cassette tape in the car radio. All I had to do was press the eject button and feel the tape. This is the best part. I lifted my arm to the button, and my mind was blown. It was a conscious, waking-style decision to move. I made it there and then, because I was mentally there at that moment. My awakened brain told my arm muscles to move- just as it would in real life, and I felt it as it happened. It was so realistic and I was so self-aware that I found it hard to believe I was still in a dream with this level of conscious thought. I thought of it not so much as being asleep, but being awake, in a simulation. Like living it rather than dreaming it. It's such a simple action that I smile at it now, but the effect it had on me was profound.

Originally Posted by J.D.

Something that always inspires me when I'm losing interest is remembering the very first conscious thought I had while in a dream.

That's a good idea, but I don't know how it'll work for me. You see, my first lucid dream was ten seconds of hyperventilation. Basically, I stood up and lost lucidity. I did have my third lucid dream last night, so that's good. But I think I was only mildly lucid: I seemed to lose lucidity every now and then not be in control of my own actions. Thank you, though.

thats a very helpful description of SP, im gonna have to try that. Ive tried it a couple times already but i think ive been to tired when i went to sleep and wasnt able to focus. I use to SP in a negative way with hallucinations and profound fear till i learned to lucid. I remember that vibration happening several times while going to sleep and not knowing it was SP. thanks for the post!

After not having a lucid dream in probably a month, I had a DEILD of excellent quality and excellent realism this morning. I opened a program in Linux called the "GODAPP" to bring up a giant resizeable whiteboard for me to draw on. I drew lyrics to "Jenny/867-5309" all over it while singing it. Tried to do a TOTY (parting of the Red/Reed Sea) but lost the lucid from lack of focus.

If that's not a comeback story to win for this thread, I don't know what is.

After not having a lucid dream in probably a month, I had a DEILD of excellent quality and excellent realism this morning. I opened a program in Linux called the "GODAPP" to bring up a giant resizeable whiteboard for me to draw on. I drew lyrics to "Jenny/867-5309" all over it while singing it. Tried to do a TOTY (parting of the Red/Reed Sea) but lost the lucid from lack of focus.

If that's not a comeback story to win for this thread, I don't know what is.