Thread: First willed Lucid Dream

Well, after having success with the HILD technique, I promptly had a lucid dream.

The dream starts off with me walking down the hallway of my old highschool. Then I actually lifted up my hand, and take a look at my digital watch. I can't even believe I did that. So I do that, look away, look back, and the readout changed. When I looked at first it said 7:02. When I looked again the time was all garbled, like parts of the 7 and 2 were missing.

I then realize that this is a lucid dream, and become very excited. The excitement wasn't hindering the dream at all, at first, despite what I read. I then am trying to figure out how to get where I want to go, because that hallway wasn't where I wanted to be. First thing I thought of doing was reliving a past experience of hanging out at this park behind my old apartment building during twilight with this guy I had a crush on then. I think about that experience a lot in real life, and decided to try and relive it now. I was just brimming with the excitement of all the possibilities.

One problem I had was, how the hell do I get back to that park? I close my eyes, trying to will myself there, which was a HUGE mistake. Just closing my eyes made the world waver in it’s reality, and made me lose control. I open my eyes, and I'm still not there, and now I can feel the dream unraveling. I then do the same mistake again, like an idiot, and close my eyes, and try and will myself there. Now it starts working because I can feel a warm outside wind, and I can feel this guy's arms around my back, but the dream just can't hold on, and ends there.

Is this another lucid certainty like lightswitches and watch readouts, or is it just me? Does closing your eyes hinder your control? Because I closed my eyes in a previous unwilled lucid dream, and remember that same feeling of losing control.