Finally!

Quest for Lucidity
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After 2 years of obsessing about lucid dreaming i finally experienced the magic. :content:

I went out yesterday and had a few beers,
so i was having a lot of weird dreams this night;
I gave a monkey to a rather hungry swine… which i immediately regretted.
I almost solved a giant pyramid puzzle inside an ancient temple,
and i ran through the woods of suffering…
an immensely dense and dark forest, with people running beside me…
crashing into trees like in the clip from voodoo people :tongue: …

So when i woke up i was encouraged to try and WILD,
but i was too groggy and quickly slipped into unconsciousness.

Next thing i remember, i was standing in my room,
but everything except for my bed was missing…
and the walls had bright white/black checkers wallpaper…
lots of things were different,
but i have missed some monstrous dreamsigns before so i was glad when…
it reached me!.. ‘‘I have GOT to be dreaming!’’

Now i did something incredibly stupid…
i got too excited and did not think about doing anything to increase lucidity,
and i wasn’t that lucid to begin with.
I thought to myself: ‘‘screw it, this is my first… and i want it to be awesome.’’
So i imagined the walls bursting away, revealing something better… but instead everything went black… and i woke up.

After this i had another dream in which i told a DC that i just became lucid for the first time…
He answered rather nonchalantly ‘‘Right, thats cool man’’ like he already knew.
And i also vaguely remember another moment of lucidity.

Anyhow, even though i was barely lucid… i’m extremely happy i finally got there.
I was losing dedication and focus, remembering less and less dreams,
thinking it just wasn’t within my reach, since i’m a really deep sleeper.
But now i regained confidence and will continue my DJ :smile:

I just have one question, this dream felt just like any other dream,
except i was ‘‘me’’ instead of my dreaming self…
this was a little disappointing.
How big is the difference between a not so lucid dream and fully fledged lucidity?

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First of all, congratulations! :yay: May your story serve as ainspiration for people that take a long time to get lucid. It IS possible!

The difference between a low lucid and a high lucid can be unbelievable. A low lucid can be a dream that seems like a ND with a tiny bit of awareness, where you still follow the story a bit. A high lucid can be mind blowing, I usually freak out and lose lucidity or wake up :rofl:. Anything in between is possible too, so even if you have low lucidity, it can still be pretty vivid and feel more real than a ND. The first LD’s you have tend to be less vivid and real. I remember one of my first LD’s, I got lucid, looked at the ground and tried to fly, waking up. It lasted about 5 seconds, and wasn’t really vivid in general, but I saw the ground with such detail, just for a split second, and that alone was very WOW.

Good luck, keep trying! But take it easy and try to have fun, that really helps!

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Congrats man, it always nice to hear about someone success, specially when’s the first of it’s kind… :content:

Well to be honest LD can be nothing special. But I guess that’s because of the lucidity itself, like mattias explained but when you have high level lucid dream then it’s something you will most definitely remember.

Man, I’ve had dreams so amazing that I can still remember them today, after almost 3 years after having them.

For example one of the earliest lucid dreams started with me standing on the bridge, most beautiful, dream like bridge. As the vision started to focus and getting more and more vivid on the far left horizon I notice a tree. Simple plain tree with green leaves and round shaped treetop. Of course it’s the first thing that caught my attention and as I was approaching it, more of it’s surroundings I could see.

At the bottom where dirt should be there was a stream of chocolate just flowing so naturally that I couldn’t believe. Of course it was chocolate so I had to taste it, right?! So I dip my finger and I tried it, it was amazing! Chocolate was warm and soft. As I was in crouched position someone stepped into the chocolate and left the print because as he stepped and left chocolate became solid and cold. I raise my head to see who that was and all I could see was the coat, some fancy businessman pants with some fancy businessman shoes. After that man disappeared in the distance and I continued to taste the chocolate…

From time to time you will have those amazing dream but remember to enjoy your NLD’s too because they can be great as much as LD’s. I’ve had those too and that’s what’s keeps me going!

Good luck! :content:

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Ok, now I have to recreate Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory in a LD. :tongue:

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Of course, it would be a shame not to try the dream chocolate! :content: