A question that is becoming my obsession is if it’s possible to get so interested into LD to imagine to have one.
I’ll explain it better: two days ago I read about LDs, and it all looked very interesting. I was thinking to go deeper into the subject as soon as possibile, and when I went to bed I began to repeat to myself “I’ll have a Lucid Dream, I’ll have a Lucid Dream” (in Italian, not in English). I wasn’t really convinced I would have had a LD.
During the night I had a stupid, common dream, but then all of a sudden I had a false awakening, and I got in what looked like a short but intense lucid dream.
The odd thing is that this LD lasted for about 10 minutes, and in those 10 minutes I experienced a lot of things I had read about a few hours before.
I had read about Reality Checks, and I did RCs. I had read about hearing odd sounds during a false awakening, and it happened. I had read about flying in different ways, and I flew in different ways. I had read about summoning objects, and I summoned a mirror.
I had even read about a guy that once flew with a JetPack, and I summoned a working JetPack.
I don’t remember about the dream itself, but I remember how I felt when I woke up in real life (it was like “oh my god oh my god oh my god this really happened to me”), so I’m quite sure it was a real LD, but… isn’t it odd that I experienced it that way, with so many similarities whit what I had read the evening before?
What’s your opinion about it? Do I stand good chances to achieve LDs again with MILD?
did u feel that you were the one making the decisions?
and could you feel things ?, in my first LD i was slapping myself in the face, i could feel it, even though it was a bit more of a duller pain than a RL slap would have been.
If you knew it was a dream, it was an LD (though possibly just low lucid). If you didn’t ever think “hey, this is a dream,” it was a false lucid dream, where you can do anything as you would in an LD, but you never really know you are dreaming.
Also, don’t know the non-lucid dreams! Regular dreams can be just as big of an adventure as LD’s. A lot of beginners make the mistake of saying “darn, no lucid dream tonight,” and their motivation plummits as they say that over and over.
Yes, I understood that it was a dream. I found myself in bed, but in a position different from the one I had when I went to bed. My head was when my feet usually are, and viceversa.
So I tought: “ehi, maybe this is a Lucid Dream? Wow, a Lucid Dream right after I learned about them!”. So I tapped my fingers on the bed (to answer to Rodders, I could feel my fingers tapping on the bed), and I counted 7 or 6 fingers.
I got up and it was like moving in real life, just very odd in a way I can’t describe.
I was in control, like in real life, it was much different from a common dream.
My problem is that all that I wrote is based on the memory of how I felt when I woke up IRL. I was shocked, in a positive way.
My (paranoid) doubt, is: is it possible that my mind gave me the illusione of free will? That when I woke up I remembered a Lucid Dream, while I just had a normal dream about Lucid Dreams (my mind is twisted, I know ), featuring the illusion of knowing I was dreaming?
The thing that makes me doubtful is that I dreamt a lot of things I had read about before falling asleep. It’s odd that I chose to do those things, instead of others.
From here it comes my suspicion…
Probably I look silly, making out problem from nothing… but it all seems to good to be real. It was the oddest and most indescribable experience in my life.
Anyway, thank you both for your answers.
I’m quoting just one of you because I could find out how to multiquote
Expectations are very powerful within dreams. If you read about “I had an LD and it was like this…” you are likely to experience what they did.
Expectations are often used for creating objects. If you think “I expect that there is a dog behind this door” within a lucid dream, it will most likely be true.
A lot of people get the same fear that their subconscious is implanting false memories just to keep them from actually becoming lucid. There’s no realy way to prove one way or another, but keep in mind the SC is a part of you. It’s the operating system that your brain runs on. It exists for you. I highly doubt that it conspires against people the way we sometimes think that it does.
You’re the one who gives it commands. If you have doubt and aprehension about LD’s, then it will take that and try to avoid LD’s because for all it knows you’re afraid of them. It’s self denfense. If you have a problem with LD’s, check yourself before you blame your mind.
), featuring the illusion of knowing I was dreaming?