I only found this website a week ago and I saw other posters say it can take up to a year to get a lucid dream. So I didn’t really expect anything like this anytime soon. I only have gotten 3 dreams into my dream journal so far. The past few days I haven’t been able to recall any long dreams.
Anyways here is what happened. This dream was actually pretty long leading up to the reality check. Then there were two NBA announcers in my dream and I was talking to them. All of a sudden one of them starts walking backwards and is going around the corner. I was thinking why is he doing that. Then I thought wait a minute… I don’t know these guys in real life this is a dream!
At that point I got really excited. The dream I was having disappeared and everything was completely black. I felt myself kind of losing control so I looked down at my hands because I remembered that what you were suppose to do. I was trying to get a lucid dream, but I don’t know why I couldn’t. I was real excited though, I kept thinking yes this is it I’m in a lucid dream right now. But it was still all black. Then I was wondering whether or not I was really dreaming. Somehow it felt as though I had control over my real body. I was trying to move my arms and I couldn’t. I was thinking to myself, ‘see you can’t move your still sleeping.’ Then I started monitoring my breathing and it seemed like I wasn’t breathing very well. At this point I just lost control and I fell back into a normal dream.
Any comments? I would like to know why I couldn’t exactly get into a lucid dream. I may not have been thinking of a specific scenario. Like what I wanted to do in a lucid dream. I’m thinking thats what may have happened. I think all I was thinking of was that I was in control. Also I was only in control for a very small amount of time compared to the overall length of the dream.