My first lucid dream - a let-down?

Quest for Lucidity
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I had my first lucid dream ever last night!! In my Theory of Knowledge class in school yesterday we watched Waking Life and I wished really badly that I could have a lucid dream and talk to people I meet in my dreams - I reiterated this wish to myself before I went to bed with faint hopes that I could have a lucid dream. I was exhausted and fell asleep very quickly, finding myself in a normal dream.

During my dream I took a shuttle somewhere and was sitting there feeling purposeless. I thought to myself, “What am I doing here? This is so boring” and then answered myself with “OMG, I’m dreaming!” At this point I was really, really excited and distinctly remembered my desire to wander around having fantastical experiences a la Waking Life. Too excited to have a clear objective, I immediately changed my dream landscape, but I only managed to shift myself to a dark-gray cave which I couldn’t see clearly. There were writing and shifting words on the walls - I tried to see them clearly as I thought they might be an important message, but my bangs were blocking my vision and I eventually sort of gave up.

The cave was starting to get eerie and creepy - I felt sort of empty and missed the story-like nature of my normal dreams - so I shifted to a beach. I decided to try to move around to see if I had control of my limbs, but I could only drag my limbs very, very slowly. I managed to do a flip in the water, but it felt like being in molasses. I eventually drifted away from the beach and was lying in my bed staring at the wall beside it - but I knew I was still dreaming at this point. Remembering the reality-check test I saw in Waking Life, I struggled to float myself over - like a ghost - to my lightswitch and sort of envisioned flicking it on with my mind. My light wouldn’t turn on, which made me feel excited again, but also spooked - for some reason watching that scene in the movie made me feel tingly and creeped out. I felt so frightened and bizarre that I just woke up. My heart was thumping really quickly and I felt SO strange - like my dream-self was meeting my real self and didn’t like it?

I really want to continue lucid dreaming, but I have some concerns:
I felt sort of disembodied throughout my lucid dream. I was vaguely aware of my physical presence, but I couldn’t make my body do anything without strenuous efforts. Is it normal just to be able to walk around?
The entire thing was fuzzy and hazy! I was frustrated because usually I’m quite imaginative, but the cave I came up with was incredibly dull. One of the reasons I was sure throughout that it was a dream was because my perception was so blurry and I had so little peripheral awareness. My dreamscape was just very limited. Could this have anything to do with the fact that I was really tired when I went to bed? How can I make my dreams more vivid?
Why couldn’t I have magical powers or adventures? :cry: I was envisioning myself attending Hogwarts or riding a unicorn, but alas, I was stuck in the mundane. Does anyone have suggestions for accessing powers in my dream?

Sorry that this post was so long!! If there was somewhere else I should have asked this, I’m sorry :sad: Despite my eerie feeling, I’m really excited and would love to have some advice :smile:

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sounds like a low quality Lucid dream, There are several things to make your lucid dreams better rub your hands together, spin, make a comand telling the dream to improve. You cant expect your first try to be perfect! I have had 5 lucid dreams, and i am still haveing trouble controlling and maintaining them. I suggest you do so more research, and keep practicing.

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It is more normal to be able to move about normally. I think dreamers have trouble when either they expect to have difficulties or they become aware of the real SP their body is experiencing while asleep. But you will have lucid dreams with more mobility in the future and you can improve the quality by using commands etc like reaper said in the previous post.
making LDs more interesting is all down to experimenting, reading about how others did things and practice :smile:

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For a first lucid dream it wasn’t that bad.
And it did sound like a fuzzy one. To feel your body more you should try to activate it by doing something. Spinning can make you feel your body, and also make the rest of the dream more vivid. Just stopping and taking in the scene can also do that. Two radically different techniques.
But this was your first one, next one may be like what you expected. just wait and see.

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That’s how one of mine was like too. I was in some room, my mom was talking, the lights were on by the way, and when I left the room and turned the switch off, the light stayed on. So I was like “I must be dreaming”, so I changed my Dreamscene to a rooftop at night. I tried making a fireball but nothing happened. I tried getting a rocket launcher but nothing happened. I tried just flying but I just made a really clumsy jump, maybe less height than IRL. Don’t worry, your dream was better than mine.

I think the key is to not want the following action, but know that the following action WILL happen. If you took a really hard test, you would want to do well but inside you don’t know what will happen. If you took a 3rd grade test (I’m assuming you are 4th grade or higher lol), you would know you did well. It’s a terrible analogy but I think you get the idea.