Success! My first lucid dream in ~7 years.

Quest for Lucidity
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Hello there! This is my first post on these forums but I’ve been reading alot about LDing from here for a couple of weeks now. I remember having my first LD when I was around 10 years old. It was very short, but it intrigued me at the time and I didn’t know much about it. I forgot about it shortly after, and it wasn’t until about 7 years later when I came across the Wikibook on lucid dreaming. I’ve been trying for a couple of weeks now, keeping a dream journal, improving my dream recall. It all payed off this morning when I had a moderatly sized LD. I was too excited to go back to sleep, so I thought I’d share it with the ld4all forums :content:

I guess it was a combination of WBTB + MILD that induced my first LD. I went to bed at around 12:30am and woke up at about 3:30am. I remembed one dream where there were soft multi-colored balls all over my lawn. I woke up and jotted everything down in my DJ, and went back to sleep. This is where I had it. I was in my dark basement and I tried to switch on the light, but none seemed to be working. Although I thought this was odd, it did not set me off. All of a sudden the FreeBSD devil started chasing me, which I immediatly thought was rediculous and recognized it as a dreamsign. When I realized I was dreaming I was suprisingly calm. I tried some dream stabilization techniques such as hand rubbing and spinning around, which worked quite well. Some of the things I remember doing was looking in the mirror, which was surprisingly clear compared to what others have described. I stuck my finger into my hand, which felt like sticking my finger into a viscous fudge. I also tried to impress a DC by conjuring fire with my hands, they were not amused. Shortly after I woke up, completly refreshed, which felt strange.

One of the main annoyances of the LD was the overall lack of detail from the environment, which might have been because I didn’t spend much time focusing on my surroundings. Overall I thought it was a great first moderatly-lengthed LD, I felt like I just took a tiny step into the overall experience. I can’t wait for the next one :content:

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congratulations. I am in the same boat as you, i had a lucid dream when i was young in the middle of the nightmare. being young, i didn’t take advantage of it, and just made myself wake up. Hopefully i can have the same success you’ve had.

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Congrats on that LD man! I just had mine two nights ago, i know exactly how you feel. :content:

Keep working on it, i think that’s just a taste of whats to come :happy: Wish you the best in your quest. :ok:

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i too had a lucid dream as a child, and willed myself into waking up instead of taking advantage of it. I’m still working on my first intentional LD, but congratulations on your first!!

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Congrats! Nice dream too. So you slept for 14 hours. I am impressed.

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My bad I ment 12:30AM :razz: I didnt get much sleep actually.

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lol, i remember my first LD, It was so cool! Except I was so excited i woke myself up like 30 seconds later, lol. I said, “If this is a dream turn me into a yoshi (lol, i was younger)” And I looked at my hands and they started to change, I screamed and woke myself up…

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Congrats, its a great feeling when you have your first one. BTW don’t forget that lucid dreaming is easy.