Just had my first lucid dream

Hello I just had my first lucid dream last night and would like to get there again.

A little background about myself I really only found out about LD about 2 months ago. Some friends kept talking about it and it sounded interesting. I didn’t look into it too much but they told me about how you do something habitually through the day and hopefully you try it in a dream and figure out you are in a dream.

Well I tried walking through my cubicle wall for about a week and realized i look like an idiot in front of everyone so I basically forgot about it for a month and I just randomly had a lucid dream last night. Upon some research today it seems that I also followed that wake up method unintentionally.

So I fell asleep when the world cup went into overtime. I woke up when germany won then i went to my room hung out a bit and went to sleep again untill 2 am I am guessing i got around 6 hours of sleep. I stayed up talking to an ex till 6am and between 6am-8am i had my lucid dream.

The dream:
I was in a classroom with some coworkers/friends one day and then i came back the next day and the room had no people in it. I thought to myself well ok this is weird this makes absolutely no frickin sense. Why would I be in a classroom with no people? Did I forgot if there is school today? thats not like me to forget i dont have school (completely ignoring the fact I graduated 2 years ago). So I had a thought that i might be in a dream. I decided to pinch myself and then i got surprised and felt like hollyyyy hell i cant feel this at all! So then i decide to do my wall thing. I go up to a chalkboard and push on it with 2 hands leaning forward. For a second nothing happens but then slowly my hands sink into the wall. I got so excited i couldnt believe i was doing it. So after i enter the wall i feel like i am falling but i am instantly thinking ok ok ok i need to think of a place to go. i recently went to a waterpark so i thought about going there but then i thought “hey i do that in real life lets do something crazier. It was here where things get foggy I can’t remember where I went. I remember i wanted to try to fly but cannot remember the attempt. However I do remember going through about 3 walls and each wall i thought of a new place to go. Also I remember that I was yelli anngd i thought to myself,” hmm i wonder if my physical body in my room is yelling too I hope no one hears me and wakes me up". I woke up at 8am to my alarm and went back to sleep for 20 minutes. The end part of my dream i could not tell if it was lucid or not. and i cannot remember if it was in the 6am-8am dream or the bonus 20 minute sleep i had after my alarm went off. but that dream i was living with a few chicks and they would have sex with me when they got in the mood. one girl came over to my room then the other one. yeah… something i probably would try to cook up to be honest I mentioned the 3some thing a few times jokingly with my ex which may of actually made her my ex but thats besides the point.

Anyways This is my first lucid dream i was really excited during the dream it was really amazing how self aware i was. I kept thinking ok where do i go next. I have been talking to my friends all day about this and even the dreams they told me they had were lucid does not seem like they had control like i did in this dream.

So a few questions.

How do I get more consistent? before this i have wrote down maybe 5-7 dreams and alot of them were in the same week but this was about a month ago.

I have started pinching myself throughout the day which is starting to hurt but whatever if it works.

I read about meditating for a bit everyday. how do i do that what am i supposed to think about?

I am so excited about this I feel like it might never happen again because i want it to happen again too much.

When you saw consistent, do you mean more consistent with your lucid dreams or dream recall?

The best advice I can give is to try to think of that feeling when you first realized you were dreaming. It’s like someone turns on a light or something. You’re just suddenly aware of the dream around you. Try to hold on to that awareness and remember to stay aware in waking life. The more aware you are in waking life, the more aware you are in your dreams. The more aware you are in your dreams, the more likely you are to question something and become lucid.

Second, just pinching yourself does nothing; you can feel pain in dreams too. It’s a common urban legend that if you pinch yourself and feel pain, you must be awake. In fact, a lot of possible lucid dreams have been thwarted by this idea.

What you need is a more reliable reality check. I would suggest pinching your nose and trying to breathe in. If you can breathe while holding your nose shut, there’s a good chance you’re dreaming.

As far as meditation, it’s basically about clearing your mind. I usually focus on the sound of a fan or something in the background and try to not think of anything else. There are good guides on the internet, but every meditates a little differently because everyone’s mind is different.

Good luck, and happy lucids! :tardis:

thanks for your tips!

really i thought pinching would be the reality check for me. dangit that kind of kills what ive been doing for 2 days. lol. I have never done the pinching thing i have no idea why i decided to do that in my dream. I will find more reality checking habits.

and by consistent I meant lucid dreaming. I usually can recall a large portion of my dreams and have been getting better with my dream journal.