So I’ve been doing reality checks for the last few months, but I guess I didn’t really understand the concept behind them. I had 2 “lucid dreams” a long time apart, but one was because I happened to be checking my watch frequently, and when I finally realized the time was changing the dream collapsed in an instant. The second I knew from the start and just had fun running around zombies in a field. I tried spinning around to go to boreal forest but everything turned black and I woke up.
Anyway! I just had what I consider to be my first significantly lucid dream! I’m very excited I’ve been using the spontaneous awareness technique (SAT) that I read about on dreamview for about a week, and it’s worked a lot better it seems. I spent most of the dream not lucid, except the tail end. It was so vivid! I was swimming somewhere, and someone ran me over with a motor boat. I could see myself floating underwater unconscious. I woke up in a hospital, and tried to sit up, but a nurse held me down. I sat up anyway and tore my stitches. I woke up again in the room. I had a deep wound on my inner left thigh, and could walk right. I got up and limped around the hospital for a bit. I had a few doctors, and I met a technician who had some kind of technology to help me, but only after I healed. I was worried I would miss the Electric Forest festival (happening in 2 weeks ), then I was very afraid I would never be able to walk or dance right again, or spin poi at all (note: gotta try that in a LD sometime). I was told I would heal but might have to learn to walk again, and could take months. I was released at some point, back to my parents house. I remember driving north with a friend of mine, but not recognizing the local geography at all. We found a town with a pretty harbor in the winter. At some other point I drove to a gas station out of town. As I limped back to the car, I fell and began to cry a bit. A nice, older, portly woman came up and said it would get easier, then gave me a card for scooters for disabled people. Finally (last scene), I walked up the street by my parents house one night. I tried to get onto a scooter in someone’s driveway, but fell down. I was going to look at my leg scar again, but then I realized: I’M DREAMING! I looked at the road beneath me. It was fuzzy, so I thought "clarity"and then “clarity now!” which worked. I felt the road with my hands. I looked one way, and saw my dad and another older man far down the street. I looked the other way and saw an archway where the street was supposed to go down a small hill. Through it I saw the harbor, filled with icebergs (this is lake Huron). As I walked closer I could see closer parts of the harbor through it. The scenery got fuzzy a few times, but I kept it under control, and rubbed my hands together a bit. Eventually the icebergs gave way to a beautiful ice temple. I ran forward, intending to fly, but stopped myself on the side of the arch. I didn’t want to kill myself in case I wasn’t dreaming. There were stone stairs with a guard wall going down this new cliff to the right. I started down, but then the dream ended and I woke up. I slept another hour or so and then wrote it down when I got up.
I’m excited! I feel like an actual lucid dreamer now!! I’m going to have to make a LD to do listsometime.
I was surprised that I remembered tho stabilize the dream, considering that I had only just read about “stabilization”, for the first time that evening. Good thing though!
About what you said when the dream turned black and you woke up… I’m also pretty much a beginner and that happened to me in my first few lucid dreams. I was completely lucid but the dream would change to a color and wake me up. Now that I’m used to it, I just end up losing lucidity, so it’s always good to remind yourself to RC…
And by the way, when you said “I didn’t wanna kill myself in case I wasnt dreaming” you should have done some RC’s because it’s so sad that you had the chance to fly but you didn’t… You should try and make the most unrealistic things happen to convince you, like being able to take snap your hand off your body, or breathe through your nose, or stick your hand thru your palm.
That sounds awesome. It’s good that you were able to experience different things (the iceberg, stairs, feeling the road…and that you knew enough to stabalize!
You’re right AJ, I should have. I think it was partially influence by a thought I had earlier in the day of drugs convincing me so was dreaming and jumping off a roof irrational yes, I have more practice to do. My dreams have been more vivid since.
I had my second LD last night. It was MARVELOUS. I tried WBTB for the first time. I can’t remember the exact moment of lucidity because it was a longer dream. I was outside with some friends and people on couches by a building. We were in a small town nestled on a hill in the woods. At some point I left and figured out I was dreaming, so I decided to fly. MAN that was so exciting! I had to keep myself in control to stay dreaming. I didn’t fly too high, just around the tops of trees. I landed on a road and saw two guys with knives. They seemed threatening so I zapped them with some lightning from my fingers, muhaha! One ran off, but the other stayed. I tried shooting fire but it didn’t work, so I think I just telekinetically threw him away and flew off again. I landed on a building where a lot of my family was leaving. I remember touching a spruce branch that was hanging, both to keep me lucid and just feel it. it was so realistic. My memory fades a little after that though. I was rubbing my hands together during the dream and trying to narrate my actions to stay lucid. I noticed how much more effective it was to say things like “lucidity now!” and “increased clarity” out loud than just think them. A few times I remember seeing just black and feeling stuck between my dream body and real body, but I got back in a few times by focusing on rubbing my hands (though I can’t remember what I did at that point).
I’ve been using the spontaneous awareness technique (SAT) that I read about on dreamview for about a week, and it’s worked a lot better it seems. I spent most of the dream not lucid, except the tail end. It was so vivid! I was swimming somewhere, and someone ran me over with a motor boat. I could see myself floating underwater unconscious. I woke up in a hospital, and tried to sit up, but a nurse held me down. I sat up anyway and tore my stitches. I woke up again in the room. I had a deep wound on my inner left thigh, and could walk right. I got up and limped around the hospital for a bit. I had a few doctors, and I met a technician who had some kind of technology to help me, but only after I healed. I was worried I would miss the Electric Forest festival (happening in 2 weeks 
), then I was very afraid I would never be able to walk or dance right again, or spin poi at all (note: gotta try that in a LD sometime). I was told I would heal but might have to learn to walk again, and could take months. I was released at some point, back to my parents house. I remember driving north with a friend of mine, but not recognizing the local geography at all. We found a town with a pretty harbor in the winter. At some other point I drove to a gas station out of town. As I limped back to the car, I fell and began to cry a bit. A nice, older, portly woman came up and said it would get easier, then gave me a card for scooters for disabled people. Finally (last scene), I walked up the street by my parents house one night. I tried to get onto a scooter in someone’s driveway, but fell down. I was going to look at my leg scar again, but then I realized: I’M DREAMING! I looked at the road beneath me. It was fuzzy, so I thought "clarity"and then “clarity now!” which worked. I felt the road with my hands. I looked one way, and saw my dad and another older man far down the street. I looked the other way and saw an archway where the street was supposed to go down a small hill. Through it I saw the harbor, filled with icebergs (this is lake Huron). As I walked closer I could see closer parts of the harbor through it. The scenery got fuzzy a few times, but I kept it under control, and rubbed my hands together a bit. Eventually the icebergs gave way to a beautiful ice temple. I ran forward, intending to fly, but stopped myself on the side of the arch. I didn’t want to kill myself in case I wasn’t dreaming. There were stone stairs with a guard wall going down this new cliff to the right. I started down, but then the dream ended and I woke up. I slept another hour or so and then wrote it down when I got up.
irrational yes, I have more practice to do. My dreams have been more vivid since.
