First LD! (Long)

Quest for Lucidity
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(Note- I didn’t post this in the Dream Jounral section as I have a few questions)

Last night was my first real LD, and not one of those pre-lucid moments that tease me so. Before I went to bed I had my normal banana, cup of hot milk, and Vitamin B complex (contains 75mg of VB6.) While the dream itself wasn’t really that satisfying, the experience itself was great.

OK firstly, I was having some pretty vivid dreams that night. I took my “dream food combo” at 1:30am, and packed it in at 3am. I felt bad that night since I didn’t do very many RCs during the day and I didn’t really read much on lucid dreaming like I normally do before I go to bed. In bed I started flexing/tensing my muscles to get more relaxed. I figured I would do some MILD for a bit, then just relax and think about dreams to get me nice and tired, and then practice my WILD when I started to get really drowsy. Of course this failed miserably and I ended up falling asleep while thinking of something completely off topic.

At 7:30am my watch alarm went off. It does this every single night, but it never wakes me up. For whatever reason it did this night, and to boot it was on top of my dresser. Grumbling, I went to go turn it off without knowing that I had just created a perfect WBTB set up. The alarm interrupted a dream I was having where I was in a small room with my friend and many people. Apparently it was during a “dance.” In my dream I saw this girl who had a huge crush on me who I had done a pretty sloppy job of shaking her off (which I’ve always felt pretty bad about it.) In the dream I pretty much snuffed her just like in real life.

When I returned to bed after turning the alarm off I drifted back to sleep very quickly. Right away I hit that stage where you’re not quite sleeping yet not quite awake. This is what I found quite interesting. In this stage I saw what looked like a green and yellow barcode. It had 7 bars. I then heard, and felt something that I can only describe as an alien entity. I felt like it was talking to me, and that this wasn’t just a dream. It said that it was manipulating my brain waves to make me hit my dream state right after this conversation. He said I owed that girl. It then told me to “focus on the 4th of the 7 bars.” I focused on that bar, and BAM I was in a dream and instantly knew I was lucid.

Now first of all, that alien thing sounded extremely cheesy to my dream self. However even then I could appreciate the fact that my subconcious created this scenario that made me lucid (That was WILD right?) In my dream I was in the exact same room as my previous dream, except it was empty save the fact that it had the girl in the middle of it. This is where I lost some of my lucidity, as I went to talk to her. I don’t remember much of what happened during the conversation. After it I either woke up or had a False Awakening. Either or, I was able to fall back asleep almost instantly, and a voice said to me “Now you can become lucid whenever you want.” I found that kinda neat, seemed I had lucid dreaming on the mind enough there! Right after that I was in the same dream room and lucid again. It was just me in it. I started to walk around the room marvelling out how real things looked.

I didn’t say anything at first in the dream, as my dreamself was afraid that it would make me talk in real life and cause too much noise. I tried whispering, and could barely hear it. I put my arm in the air, and said “Increase volume!” several times, and each time it made things louder. After that I left the room, and walked into a totally brown hallway. I checked out two rooms (both were totally brown, and one had 6 walls.) I found the brown to be quite boring, so I closed my eyes and thought that things should change. When I opened them all the walls were a crazy neon color with black zig zags everwhere. (Note- I’m so surprised at how easily I made things change in this short dream. Is this normal?)

I walked down the hall, and lost most lucidity again when I met 3 people. I woke up shortly after. Out of this experience, I can’t wait to have more so I can practice. Like, it was a pretty short dream, and I did a lot of things I wouldn’t normally do if lucid when I lost lucidity (I didn’t add these “things” in my posts for certain reasons…). However it felt so… impressive when it happened.

Sorry for such a long post, but it’s so great to get one finally. To those who haven’t had one yet, DON’T GIVE UP!. I was starting to wonder if they were worth all the fuss, but now that I had one myself, despite the dream itself being quite lame, I know it’s worth it. And the thought that my control over the dreams and the vividness will only get better is a great motivation for me to keep trying for more.

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Sounds like a very good LD for your first one mate, the Alien thing would have creeped me out though :tongue:

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It was interesting. Like I’m not saying that it was an alien, but I thought it was a pretty neat thing my mind created. I also just know it wasn’t a dream and took place in that stage before sleep.

Either way, I owe it for making me lucid! The dream seems very short when written out, and while it wasn’t a long dream by any means, it felt a lot longer during it.

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Hi alexm!

First of all, congrats on your LD. I’m completely staggered. It’s the most incredible first LD I’ve ever read. :eek: I’m glad for you that you had such an experience.

This stage has been described as the “indermediate stage” by some WILD’ers. It is deeper than the hypnagogic stage and when you’re in it, you’re quite almost LD’ing. Generally, you just have to roll over or stand up in order to enter a WILD.

This alien thingy is quite impressive! It’s the first time that I read someone being “helped” to enter a WILD.

It’s very unlikely to happen. I would even say it’s impossible but nothing is impossible. :wink:

It seems you’re gifted in WILD’ing. Certainly, as you said, you created a perfect WBTB set up. I hope your “alien” is right and that “you can become lucid whenever you want.” It would be great! :happy: Anyway, now you know how to WILD, it will probably be easier to obtain more LD’s.

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I sure hope so. When I gained it the second time after losing it I was so excited, not only because I managed to get it again, but also because it really hit me then how much freedom you have.

–also note that there was a bit more to that whole dream that I opted to skip. Some of it I still had lucidity, while for the rest it had that “scripted” dream feel. Before a uhm… “R rated” scene occured on the first of the 2 times I was lucid that night, I sort of morphed with a person. It was kinda wierd. I think this is where I lost lucidity, as suddenly there were 2 people in the room. I headed towards one, and sort of “became” them. Although it didn’t have a smooth feel to it, as both of those people weren’t really clear to me. It was kinda of like morphing with a shadow; there wasn’t much for me to become. I think that caused me to lose total lucidity and for it to turn into a dream which lasted only a short bit longer.