First of all, I’m brand new to the forum and to LDs (hello everyone!). I first heard about them through an article on Wikipedia that was linked by digg.com. That was 4 days ago and I haven’t stopped learning about the topic since!
Fast forward to last night: I had my first LD by using a counting technique (counting down from 50, and every 5 seconds repeating “I will remember my dreams in the morning”) and reviewing my dream journal and underlining situations where I should have known that I was dreaming. I wasn’t attempting to LD yet but practicing dream recall.
In my dream, I was in an alley with some spikey blonde haired kid. He was talking to me (can’t remember what he was saying) and all the sudden I remember thinking “Hm, he’s saying some weird stuff” and all the sudden I asked him “This is a dream, isn’t it?”. He smiled and nodded. In that moment, the feeling of being conscious in an unconscious body hit me like a brick and I told myself “Don’t get excited or all this will go away”. I handed the spikey haired lad a screwdriver and we began unscrewing the corner bolts that made up the “alley” scene as if it were a movie set. Then I closed my eyes and everything turned black and transported myself to the first place I could think of: the neighbors backyard next to my childhood home. I tried flying, first by jumping really high (only to float slowly back down), then by flapping my arms (humorous, but to no avail) and then Superman-style (also fruitless). Lucidity faded from there. The whole thing maybe last a minute or two.
Looking back on my first experience I’m kind of disappointed that I didn’t experience the euphoria that some people report their first time. What’s up with that??
I’m so overwhelmed that I don’t know what I want to do next!!
Hmm, I don’t know who reports euphoria the first time they have an LD, because people’s first LD’s seem to be very short and there’s almost always a lack of control in them.
I’d say the euphoria comes when you wake up and you realize that you succeeded, especially if you’ve been trying to have an LD for a long time.
I’m not saying that LD’s aren’t or can’t be euphoric, they can, but for me it’s always like my LD’s are “experiments and challenges” time, while waking up after an LD is my euphoria time. But I guess it’s different for different people.
Hmmm… maybe all my research has fused together then? I could feel the intenseness when I realized what was happening, but when I told myself to calm down, everything just kind of flattened.
Now I know what to expect!
Thanks everyone who replied with their thoughts- much appreciated!
I know that my first LD was even less exciting than yours. As soon as I became lucid, I was engulfed in an epic struggle to stay asleep as the world around me whirled into a mass of gray. I made an apple appear in my hand and focused on it for a while before waking up. My next LD, in sharp contrast, was a much more enjoyable experience and it left me feeling overjoyed and energized the whole day.
Don’t worry about it. Things will just keep getting better from here.
My first one was normal . I just taugh how im in a dream and I was already lucid when i beginning the dream , so I begun flying and it was a great feeling.
Congratulations on having an LD after only 4 days of trying. It took me weeks to have my first. I didn’t even know people experienced euphoria in their LDs. I know I haven’t. There are ways to induce euphoria upon yourself, even in your dreams . . .
I never experienced ‘euphoria’ in any of my LDs. Surprise, yes. Shock the first time, yes. Definitely not euphoria. Actually, it’s quite the opposite, especially when the lucid dreams are vivid enough to be real - I keep worrying about things like being too cold, or the clothes I’m wearing (when it feels that real, it’s very difficult to believe that the dream characters won’t act and judge you like real people)!
Wyvern, euphoria is about the same thing as ecstasy (the emotion, of course, not the drug). Extreme happiness, in other words.
