Thread: First LD! *biggrin*

Yup, I had my first one! W00t!
I was getting over a stomach bug last night, so I wasn't planning on trying for a lucid dream at all, since when I'm sick my dreams are usually pretty traumatic involving mud, loud noises, explosions, strobing lights, etc., so I didn't think It would even be possible to have a normal dream. Anyway, my condition must have improved during the night, because I soon found myself arguing with my mom about whether a cup was half full of milkshake or a third full. Realizing that it was just plain weird to argue about something so obvious, I decided to do a reality check. I pushed my finger through my hand, then breathed through my pinched nose (which is one of the coolest things ever). After that I spent most of my time (about 3-5 minutes) just wandering around being amazed at how real everything was. I don't really have that great recall of it since I was still kinda sick and I had a headache when I woke up and I forgot to write it down for about 10 minutes, but I remember wandering around in a daze rubbing my hands all over everything, then RCing again, etc. At one point I tried to make a coin levitate, but that didn't work. I did, however, manage (after about 30 seconds of trying) to teleport myself to the snack bar at my local summer camp and I held up the place by threatening to do who-knows-what to the girls who worked there unless they handed over all their twizzlers. I ate one, and it tasted real. Unfortunately, at this point the dream faded into a lower quality of lucidity where the fact that I was dreaming was way in the back of my mind, and after a little bit longer it faded into the next dream. Anyway, I'm psyched! I can actually do this! WooHoo! The cool thing is, I'm always forgetting to do RCs IRL, to the point where I thought some type of WILD would be my best bet for a LD, but I STILL got a DILD! Even when I consciously was thinking as I was falling asleep that I couldn't! That's gotta do wonders for you psychologically, which will make it easier to have LDs in the future, right? Anyway, even though I'm guessing I won't have one tonight (lightning striking twice syndrome, with me being so inexperienced and all), I can't wait to get back to sleep. I am officially excited!

Congrats on your first lucid dream! About whether you will have a lucid dream tonight... well, you will just have to wait and see.

Congratulations!!

Originally Posted by Vertigo

That's gotta do wonders for you psychologically, which will make it easier to have LDs in the future, right? Anyway, even though I'm guessing I won't have one tonight (lightning striking twice syndrome, with me being so inexperienced and all), I can't wait to get back to sleep. I am officially excited!

Vertigo, what's important is that now you KNOW that you can lucid dream.. whether you have one tonight or not.. you know that it's possible!

Congratulations and may your lucids only get better!

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kudos to you