My first LD!

Well, I have only been recently looking into lucid dreaming (about a week so far) and I tried to pull one off last night. So I don’t know the specifics of lucid dreaming, but I guess waht I wound up doing was a combination of a WILD and MILD (?). I relaxed my body, laying on by back, so that it feels like there’s a blanket of lead on top of me, more or less, feeling my every pulse, a bit numbing of my limbs, and counted each breath I made out. I kept my mind focused on a nice stream I had been to in a normal dream before. I believe I had started to succeed, it was 11 o’clock and I live on a dead end, so when I started to hear a car honking a tune in my head with no one else in the house stirring and seeing no car through my window, I think I was on the way to dreaming. Unfortunately, I lost concentration and lost it, as well as my eyelid starting to flutter. I kept attempting, but found I was just uncomfortable to sleep like that right then, so I rolled to my right and assumed a more comfortable sleeping position, repeating in my head that I am dreaming, and that I am going to wake up and remember my dream, alternating with each breath. I drift off and enter a dream.

I found myself as another person, in the snow with something that was five inches long and two across wrapped in a bundle, in the snow. Normal weird stuff in dreams, so I will skip ahead a bit. A tiny bit later I feel that this is a bit odd, when a farmer with a floating black ball is rolling his eyes while talking to me in a strange voice. So I do the RC I designated myself, holding my nose and seeing if I could breathe in. I could! Amazed at my first lucid dream aside from one a when I was very young and wasted by trying to wake up, I think about what to do. I’ll fly! The farmer dude is looking at me questioningly since I’m ignoring him, but I don’t think to do anything like that. After a few attempts at flying, I remember reading somewhere that falling from a great height can induce flying, so I somehow zap me and the farmer up into space.

It was amazing, and exhilarating. I started plummeting toward the earth, things getting bigger and the wind rushing against me. I was awestruck by how real it was. The farmer disappeared, I guess my mind decided not to maintain him. As I rush up to the ground, I start to get frightened by not flying. I knew it was a dream, but dream or not it’s hard to not get scared when you are plummeting probably one hundred times as fast as Kingdaka at launch, and the ground is coming up to meet you. I brace myself as the ground goes from a mile, to a few hundred yards, to fifty, to two. And an inch away from the ground, I stop. I look around wonderingly, and I am in a completely different scene from my earlier dream, a suburban neighborhood. Not wanting to chance touching the ground and not being able to get back up again, I will myself upward a bit. A weightless feeling takes ahold of my, and I start drifting where I will. Unfortunately, this is short lived, as this dream ended as when I got ten feet from where I began to drift my mind switched to an entirely different dream, where I was not aware, but I can remember both extremely well.

Lucid dreaming was more amazing than I had ever expected. Anyone have any tips to attaining lucidity my next time? Or that know how to prolong a dream, or at least maintain lucidity through different dreams? Maybe it’s just practice makes perfect :happy:

well… i am really happy you had your LD so soon!!!
the nose RC is well known and popular, i found out about it on this forum and been practising it for 2 weeks now…
there are techs how to prolong lucidity and how to stay focused and all that, so just look around on the forum… there are a lot of topics allready so post in those topics and do not open another similar ones…

i hope you will learn all you need to know here and hope it will make your lds great!!!

once again congrats on your great LD! :smile:

Congrats on your first LD!! Sounds like it was awesome, hope you have continued succes in having LD’s.

I know the feeling of the ‘First LD’. It’s absolutely great.
Congratulations, hope you continue having them.

Congratulations. :smile: You seem like the type that will have many more of these experiences. Check out my most recent thread in this same section of the forums for my own way of becoming lucid. Good luck on your future attempts.

Nice one Schreien - I often doubt that lucid dreams are what they are cracked up to be - because sometimes it seems unreal; but you’ve just given me a burst of inspiration! The things you described seemed… I dunno, almost beautiful. I need to try harder! GRRR!

ok i learned about lucid dreams,likr, 2 yrs. ago, i wanted 2 try but i didnt know how. i found this site yesterday, read some of the guides, and tried it while i fell asleep. ive always been able to remember about 2 dreams a night, so i was confident about trying lucid dreaming. it worked! i used the WILD method, right as i was about to fall asleep. when it started, it felt like i was sinking throught the bed. that was the COOLEST!then it was black, then i was in this weird expansive universe, where there were multicolored stars and pulsars everywhere, and instead of inky black space, it was multicolor changing purple, green, and blue. i felt myself being pulled out cuz i was excited, so i rubbed my fingers together and told myself that i wasnt leaving just yet. then, a large gold, silver, and bronze door appered in front of me. i opened it, and there was another door behind it. and another, and another. i walked through each of them because they were all brilliant and beautiful. then i got sick of it, and decided i only wanted one more door. it was a really small one, like in alice in wonderland. i opened it, and it lead to the inside of a big house, and everything was largely out of proportion. there was a gigantic door there, bigger than any of the other ones. it was as tall as a 50 story building. it was too high for me, so i decided to fly up to it. only, i didnt want to fly, so i called a dragon. It flew straight out of the skylight in the cieling, and landed next to me. it was around 25 feet long, and was purple and grey. it had bright yellow eyes, and looked very strong, yet old. he said that there was a comfortable spot on his back where his neck connected to his body, and if i sat there i could see over his wings. he took me up, and i told him i didnt want to leave, so we explored the house. everything was white, the tables, walls, beds. none of the light switches worked(they never did in dreams, right?) and the sun was going down through the windows. i lit candles in the house, and told the dragon it was time to go. he took me tothe big black door. it opened, and wind rushed passed us. in the door was more purple space, and we swooped in.

then i woke up. it was short, but i thought it was pretty good for my first time. i have doubts though, that this is an LD. i forgot to control stuff, the only time i did so was when i told the dragon to come and when i made candles appear it the house. i want to lenghten my time in a LD. how do i do this?