My first lucid dream! - but I can't figure out how I did it

Quest for Lucidity
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Last night I had my first lucid dream! It was incredible; one minute everything was dull and foggy and then suddenly I realized and BAM it was like I had just been woken up, except not. Unfortunately I was two excited to think of anything to do before I woke up. I didn’t expect it to be that short. :eek:

Anyway, I have no idea how I got about to doing it. :confused: You see I went to bed at around nine, and today I was meant to be going into school a bit late for an orthodontist appointment. I was only in the remembering dreams stage, and said to myself:“I want to remember my dream tomorrow, and I want it to be interesting.” I went to sleep after about an hour, but forgot to change my alarm from 6:30 to 7:00. So I woke up dreary-eyed at around 6:35, listening to my alarm, and sort of groped out for it to switch it off, not really awake, and went promptly back to sleep. And then suddenly I was in a dream: I can’t remember anything before one point. I had just walked into the living room of my house when I saw my two cats lying on their playtoy/bedthing. Except there were four of them - two of each. I suspected I was dreaming so I did an improvised reality check - I remembered their positions, turned away, and looked back, and they had changed. I was excited but not sure, so I turned my head away and saw my friend from school sitting in a chair, with a cowboy hat on. I asked him, “I’m dreaming, right?” and he replied, “Why yes you are.” I realised I was Lucid and felt great. And then suddenly he yelled at me, “QUICKLY RUN HE’S COMING!” and pushed me out as a crowd came in through the back door. I didn’t know who he was, just the fact that he was in the crowd and I was trying to get away from him, I ran up to the stairs, stepped up - and woke up in bed. CRAP.

So, can anyone tell me what sort of induction technique I used? I think it might have been WBTB but didn’t I wake up kind of late for that? I’d really like to know so I can refine the technique and do it more often - It was the greatest feeling!

Thanks alot guys!

  • tekn04 a.k.a. Josh
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Well obviously its a RC induced dream.

But im guessing your asking what prompted the RC?

My guess is that a) a little bit of autosuggestion was involved b) maybe CAT as well.

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Defintly the waking up early helped, Most of my LD’s are because of some sort of WBTB.

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You certainly did use WBTB there, even if it was an accident. :tongue: The time that is recommended for WBTB is recommended because if you wake up at those times, when you are going back to sleep you would be about to start a REM period. It’s not required to wake at those exact times it just has the best results then :wink: By the sounds of it you did have an RC induced lucid dream. It was probably caused by an increase in your awareness of Lucid Dreams :smile: So if I were you I would look at MILD and WBTB.