I Almost Had First LD?

Hey all… i’m posting here because I just woke up from what could have been my first lucid dream. Here’s my experience and explaination as best I can remember…

Reality - Before The Dream
Around 9:30pm to 10:00pm I was on the computer and started feeling quite tired. In addition to that, my shoulder started to ache quite a bit and I was bored stiff so, I decided to go to sleep. For me, this is quite early because my sleeping patterns lately would suggest me going to sleep around 3:00am in the morning.

During Dream
From the earliest point in the dream I can remember looking at the computer screen at a friends myspace. I was trying to read the “comments” on the page. Now, in the dream i’m sure these comments “meant” something to me, but thinking of them now they meant nothing at all.

Anyway, the letters started to get very blurry. I remember highlighting them with my mouse to try and make them clearer, but it was as if the words only got blurrier and the room (my bedroom) got darker. At this point in the dream, I recalled that the optomotrist told me when i’m tired it will be difficult for me to read, so by this I decided to go to the bathroom to try and wake myself up, maybe wash my face.

In this next “scene” i’m standing in front of the mirror, and I turn the lights on but, they don’t exactly work… in fact, the room was still VERY dark. I can remember seeing a sort of “picture” of my face in the mirror, and it didn’t really move with me. The next moment it was as if I was leaning over at the mirror looking down into the sink thinking how tired I was… and then I thought to myself …

“Maybe i’m dreaming?” – after that I thought to myself, “Am I dreaming?” – then I thought, “nahh… I couldn’t be” — BUT then I remembered that i’m suppost to say this to myself consistently so I said it this time “Am I dreaming?” … and it dawned on me in the dream … I was dreaming!!! The next thing I could think of at this point was, what to do???

I thought I better shout out “Increase Lucidity”, as I read someone else did on these forums only … when I tried to shout it out, it was as if I was only thinking the words and I wasn’t actually able to scream or “make a noise”.

At that point I sort of paniced because I couldn’t seem to get the lights on and I was seeing was a still very hazzy dream, but a dark surrounding. At this point I tried to wake myself up, and suprisingly I did… quite quickly too, thought it took me a while to realize that I was waking up.

My Conclusions
I’m so confused as to whether or not, I nearly had a LD or not… i’d say my dream signs that possibly helped me realize I was dreaming were the fact that the room was so dark, and that the light wouldn’t turn on + the fact I couldn’t read anything.

To be honest, I never looked as far as “what do to in a dream”, so I didn’t know how to actually become lucid and control the scene, I merely had a realization that I was in-fact dreaming! I hope I get it right the next time this happens… oh and by the way, I woke up roughtly an hour to two hours later.

What do you think? Any comments guys??? I’m not sure if this was an actual almost-LD or why I couldn’t control my surroundings and even what I should be looking to learn next! How do I have a proper LD without freaking out and waking myself up!! lol …

EDIT: I was just wondering one other thing… is Lucid Dreaming considered a form of witchcraft or some form of magic… i’m not sure if Lucid Dreaming would even be ok by God??

Hello :smile:
you realised you were dreaming in the dream so it was a lucid dream! not nearly a lucid dream.
With practice you will develop more control in your LDs and not wake up as fast. :smile:

this last point has been asked quite a few times in the past.
I am a Catholic and there is nothing bad or wrong about lucid dreaming (just some would keep to their waking life morals while in a LD but there is still a lot of room for fun and exploration while doing this :smile: )

omg I had a lucid dream?? well… it must have been a very low-state lucid dream because it was sooo hazy and the fact that the place I was in was so dark didn’t help either. lol-- anyway moogle, what do you suggest I learn to do now? I have been focusing on remembering my dreams just recently though I haven’t been writing them down the last couple of nights. I definately didn’t expect to have a lucid dream of any kind… somehow though in the dream I managed to ask that very important question thought “am I dreaming?”

-dream signs? should I be looking these up and trying to discover what mine are whilst continuing to recall my dreams in my dream diary? hmm

-Well, I looked this up a little bit just now and… I did find Lucid Dreaming on some sites that also offered all these other “witchcraft” things… I also looked up shamanism and it seems to relate to lucid dreaming… hmmm shamism would be considered WRONG.

~This is a tough call to make, though I personally think that if I do this right then it will be ok. Thought still next time i’m at church, or a speak with a good christian friend of mine i’ll ask about this whole deal…