Beginner to LD - first time when I knew what I was doing

Lucid Adventures
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So before I didn’t know about lucid dreaming I used to realise I was dreaming quite a lot, but I didnt know what to do and it never occurred to me to try and control things so I would always think ‘I don’t like this’ and close my eyes tight and fall backwards and wake up.

Well I recently came across lucid dreaming and realised on everything I was missing out on. So over the past week or so I have been using MILD and lying in bed saying ‘I will enter a lucid dream and do ______ and remember it when I wake up’

Last night I had my first lucid dream but I know there was more to the dream beforehand I just can’t remember it, anyway I was sitting on my bed when I looked down and there were 4 hamsters running around, I don’t own any hamsters. I thought, thats strange so performed a few RCs - I looked at my hand and it was all blury and disfigured, I couldn’t even tell how many fingers I had. At this point I wouldn’t usually be excited I’d just realise I was dreaming and wake myself up.

However, after reading about going lucid I got really excited and everything started fading out, my vision started blacking out and I didn’t know what to do. I tried to make someone appear in front of me but I couldn’t do it, then I felt my bed on my back and the next thing I awoke. I felt amazing but was frustrated that I couldn’t stay in the dream.

Next time I plan to ‘ground’ myself by:
-rubbing my hands fast together

and if that doesn’t stabilize the dream I will spin around and think of what I want to do like

'I want to be in _____ house with them doing ______ ’

question: while spinning or trying to teleport by spinning & thinking of a new surroundings, should I have my eyes open or closed? I’m guessing open since when I closed my eyes before I used that to wake up…

Any other ways to stabilize my dreams? Any other reality checks for me? I’ve heard of trying to stick your hands through solid objects and if you can sort of ‘mush’ through them, then you know you’re lucid. Is that effective?

Another question: best way to teleport for noobs? should i go to a door and imagine the setting i want is through the door and then open it?

Another: How do I make things or people appear? I was trying to believe my friend was in my room with me as I was fading out but he would not appear, why is this? was I too excited?

Thanks for reading, I hope soon to stabilize myself and stay in the dream, and control it for some fun! :happy:

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Congrats on conscious lucid dream! :grin:

It’s really up to you, understand that there are no rules. If you can do it with eyes closed or open do it. But if you doubt for example that you will wake up if you shut your eyes then you will wake up. So no doubts! :tongue:

Try to touch anything. Feel your skin, your hands. Feel the dream. But remember that you don’t actually have anything of that, it’s all illusion and our need to interpret things that are happening to us right now. When you come to realization that you are the dream then you will not need stabilization techniques!

Again, there are no rules. What you like the most!

Just try various techniques and see which one suits you.

Also, just practice, don’t give up and ask whatever you need to know! :content:

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well i’m not a pro ^^ but my advice for staying in the dream is: keep calm “ok it’s a lucid dream and thats cool but nothing extraordinary” it was the first thing that helped me.

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i’m no pro either, and i dont really have problem with staying in lds, this morning i actually had one where i got bored because i couldnt think of anything else to do so i just woke myself up. but what really helps me for clarity and durability is just screaming ‘increase lucidity’ or anything in that region, e.g. ‘lucid level high’. that really increases my sight too.