Just wanna say I’m a total novice to this. I’ve only started reading into lucid dreaming 2-3 weeks ago. I have had 2 lucid dreaming experiences years before, but both by pure accident. I was pretty amazed by both experiences but neither lasted very long.
Anyways, in the past 2 weeks I have tried to use the WILD technique to induce lucid dreaming, but to little success.
Last night I had the weirdest experience. For some reason I randomly did a reality check in a dream within a dream (looking at the digital clock method), and obviously I was dreaming. I was pretty excited and was able to hold the lucidity for about 5 minutes or so before gradually losing it (tried the spinning method, but didn’t really work) and waking up to the first level of dreams. I have never had a dream within a dream experience before, so I assumed I had awaken to reality. Anyways, the first level of dreaming lasted for at least another hour before I was finally awoken by my alarm clock.
It just felt really weird after waking up and realizing that I was so sure that my first level of dreaming was reality because I had awaken from a lucid dream within a dream. The thing is, after I woke up, I could remember the details of the dream within a dream more than the first level of dreaming.
Just wanna share this mind-blowing experience, not sure how often this is, but it is pretty damn cool. Again first time on the forum, so I might have put this in the wrong section. but “Lucid adventures” seemed fitting.
I like waking up once, one and done.