I succeeded in doing a mediocre WILD

Woohoo!

Okay, so I WILDed but didn't do a reality check or stabilize. There were times where I would lose vision but I still was able and in control. My memory of the dream is a little vague and crummy, but then again I haven't been writing in my dream journal as I haven't been practicing lucid dreaming seriously enough and I seriously wasn't expecting to succeed. I felt very sedated in the dream and was wondering if stabilizing would fight this feeling.

THE DREAM:

I know that as my limbs gradually disappeared and it felt like there was a cat in between my legs by my feet, the dream-scape started off a little fuzzy. I remember seeing a man, but then the sound kicked in and that somehow ramped everything up and I became more focused. Instantly I saw hundreds of people and realized I was inside this hall.

After pushing through the first crowd I realized it Some kind of a formal party. Realizing this made the same scene change a little. The people stood in groups and were no longer just standing in my way, it was as if the building became bigger (or perhaps there were fewer people now) and there was more room to walk. These groups of people were holding champagne glasses discussing things in small groups of four.

I shuffled my way out of the building, and into a different scene, (this is where everything becomes hazy and unclear). I noticed that I could no longer hear and was now being chased by a small group of teenagers.

Heck, it feels like I remember everything and yet it feels like I remember so little - I really should have stabilized my dream! :panic:

At some point I drew a door to escape them - from here on the dream became unstable and I could feel my physical body but yet the dream went on.

The "teenage dream-agents" kept coming at me and I kept beating them (I should have stopped running/fighting to see what would happen). There were times that I would be free of them for a short while and I would marvel at what my mind had created for me to play in.
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Noted:

I noticed that I could still feel my body at times such as when running really hard, (most likely because I didn't reality check and stabilize), and that when I looked upwards with my physical eyes I could focus more on the dream and/or regain control over it when the dream scene went blank. The dream felt much like a prolonged daydream.
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Questions:

Taking into consideration what I have written, in your opinion, what level of lucidity do you think I was at?

Is dream control easy to learn an practice?

If you can find more to ask/say feel free to do so. :D

Wow, not one reply. :shock:

Well, I'm not an experienced WILDer, but I'll do my best to answer the questions for you :)

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Taking into consideration what I have written, in your opinion, what level of lucidity do you think I was at?

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Well, I don't know about the level, but from my understanding, it was probably a 3 - 4 ish (1 being fuzzy, blurry, unclear and 10 being like HD, real life).

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Is dream control easy to learn an practice?

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Well, I wouldn't really know. But whenever you find yourself in a lucid dream, all I can tell you do to is remember to stabilize! Also, you could try remembering any goals you may have had. Some stabilizing tech's are: rubbing hands together, spinning (sometimes causes teleporting, bonus! :D), and touching/feeling objects around you. I believe there is a dream control guide around here on DV somewhere.

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If you can find more to ask/say feel free to do so.

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Well, I have experienced what you did before. You know like you said, where you feel like you could remember all of it but also remember so little? That sometimes happens whenever I try to remember a lucid dream.
Keep it up! The clarity of your lucid dreams will get better, and your dream control should get easier as well! ;)

Thanks, I'll definitely stabilize next time. Oh, and I'll be looking at the dream control tutorial tomorrow morning.

dream control has to b e one of the easiest things to master when it comes to lucid dreaming :) All you have to do is to believe in yourself, and remember to think that this dream is YOURS, and only yours. You're in control, with other words ;)