This last morning I definitely had a lucid dream, and I would like some input from you here.
Anyway, I remember lying in bed and doing WILD, but I’m not sure if I was actually awake while doing it - in any case I had success with it very easily, I heard sounds in my head almost instantly and saw strange scenes - then my “real” lucid dream began, and just like all my other LD’s this one started in bed.
The room looked different and my bed had turned 90°, and I also saw I had six fingers on both hands - and this time I was so sure it was a LD that I dared to go outside in my night suit right away without questioning anything or trying to “make sure”, since I got three extremely obvious dreamsigns right away (I actually remember someone was standing by my bed and telling me I had six fingers, and I was like “that means this is a lucid dream!”).
I had this “sleepy” feeling, so I struggled a lot trying to remain in the dream, but I managed to keep calm and also did frequent reality checks.
A while later I was in a kind of alley (although I don’t remember walking there) and I decided to improve my awareness by repeating my identity to myself, like my name, birthplace etc, and also frequently said to myself “this is a dream, I will eventually wake up but right now I’m dreaming”.
Things often felt very realistic, but still had this characteristic “dream-feel”, and sometimes felt a bit diffuse.
I suddenly decided to bring up a cute girl and I tried 2-3 times by imagining that she would appear around the next corner, but I couldn’t do it.
Then I believed I had woken up, but my room still looked unusual which tipped me off it was still a dream - and then I woke up for real.
One problem was that I didn’t feel excited the way you should do in a lucid dream - I’m sure that I know what it should feel like, I often imagine that I’m in a dream when I’m outside in the garden very early in the morning, and it’s definitely a spiritual and wonderful imagination, but I can’t seem to get that feeling in my dreams; I’m more like, “oh cool, a lucid dream, time to explore”, but it feels like I’m still missing something.
Anything I can do to improve this experience to a very high-quality lucid dream?