Hi all, this is my first post here.
A couple of years back, I learned about lucid dreaming and experimented with it for a couple of weeks, in which time I had about 1 or two lucid dreams. For some reason I can’t remember, I stopped and forgot all about lucid dreaming.
Now, lately and very recently, I have started to drift into a more spiritual, and questioning, curious mindset. I’m starting to ask myself if there is anything more to life etc. While browsing erowig.ord (great site) I looked and saw a whole section on dreaming. This reminded me of my old lucid dreaming practices, and after reading some lucid dreaming faq’s I was set to get back into this.
I found this site from a link on erowid and started reading the forums. Now, I figured my first step to lucidity would be dream recall. Normally I don’t often recall dreams, and I NEVER remember waking up during the middle of the night. So, the first night, I go to sleep, telling myself I will record my dreams. Nothing happens. I wake up, and I go to the washroom before remembering to write in my dream journal.
The second night, I was astonished. Once again I told myself as I went to sleep that I would wake up from my REM stages and remember to write my dreams down. Next thing I know, I am awake, its exactly 4.5 hours after I went to sleep, and I write down a somewhat fragmented dream. Next thing I know, I wake up 90 minutes later, and write down another dream, with a little more recollection, then I wake up another 90 minutes later (this was my final waking time) and write down a more detailed dream. My dream journal already had a page filled. I was quite excited about the pace of my success. The next night, I went to sleep 30 minutes later. And once again woke up 3 times for 3 seperate dreams, each more vivid then the night before, and each waking was 30 minutes later than the previous night. I was very impressed at how accurate the REM timings were.
Now the next night, I only remembered one dream. However, I was very tired. And this dream was in my first REM cycle, as I woke up only 90 minutes after goign to sleep. I remembered ALOT about the dream. And filled about 2/3 of a page with this dream alone in my journal. I specifically recall MANY dreamsigns, and I think I was even thinking about lucid dreams and saying, now if I was in a dream, these rabbits would have two heads. And then they did, and I was like, ah yes just like that! What a wasted chance to lucid dream. I also remember feeling very odd at certain points, and wondering if I had done any drugs that day, and I was very confused as to why I felt so odd if I didnt do any drugs. I am dissapointed I didnt get lucid from all this.
Either way, the rest of that night I spent trying to WILD, but it was unsuccesful.
Now, last night, my 4th night at this stuff, I was very tired. I woke up at 7:30 to go to school, but decided not to. I decided this owuld be a great oppourtunity to try WBTB. So I stayed up for about an hour reading the forums. I went back to bed with some MILD. Next thing I know Im awake. Now, I didn’t remember any dreams at any point when I woke up at any point last night. However, abotu an hour later it ALL rushed back to me. I remember about 3 individual dreams, and I don’t know which one goes where and when I had which, but what I do know is that in one of them, I realised something was wrong, and went lucid (I wont say details cause it would bore you all) and once lucid I tried rubbbing my hands, and I was very aware, and I was like thinking about how cool it was that I was lucid, and I did an RC and all, and then it started to fade away, and I dont remember anything after that point. Although I remember waking up from some kind of trance in a house in a dream. So I think it could have gone to an FA.
Either way, sorry abtou the length, but the main idea is that I’m pretty excited about how fast everything is working, and how good my dream recall is already and that I’ve already had a very short lucid dream on only my 4th night. I can’t wait to see what the future has in store.
And congratulations on your LD! Was it you i saw in chat earlier today?