Success, or so I think.

Quest for Lucidity
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Hi, newcomer here, here is my story and some questions to follow.

It happened about 2 or so nights ago when I was lying in bed around 4:00 AM (my alarm had just woken me up) or so trying to sleep and I heard this voice say “Who are the birds?” I thought to myself “hmmm that’s not normal.” So I decide to answer back, saying something along the lines of “I’ll tell you if you put me in SP.” Next thing I know there’s this feeling in my left side as if someone were jabbing something inside of me. It didn’t really hurt, just felt really weird. I kind of just assumed it was SP because I asked whomever the voice belonged to, to put me in it. Anyways, next thing I know I’m in this half-visible pitch-black room with a single window on the ceiling. Suddenly I can see shadows of birds landing on the window, one, then another, slowly till it was covered. I thought to myself “this looks like it’s trying to become a nightmare.” After looking at it for a couple more seconds I decide to go into the next room and see what was going on. Not much was going on in this room besides some two random dudes strangling each other. I decided to walk past them and go into the next room. This is where I did a reality check. First thing I notice is my hand seems to be inside a gauntlet of sorts. So I think to myself “well this certainly is not normal, I’d better do a reality check.” What I did next was put my hand on my nose and clamp down, the almighty-breath-through-the-nose reality check. Turns out I’m in a dream.

So after I perform this RC my mind starts screaming at myself “Yo this is a dream do something.” After hearing this multiple times I started moving my arms, but was not able to take control of my legs. It was if I was on autopilot or something. Next thing I know I’m staring at myself in a mirror.
Turns out I’m wearing some sort of ethereal armor of sorts. After staring at myself in the mirror for a couple of minutes, I say to myself, “Alright, jump through the window.” I didn’t even make the moves myself, I just started charging at the window and sort of phased through it. After I phased through the window I kept flying really fast though a neighborhood and at this point the dream was getting black so I decided to try the close-your-eye-and-spin method. When I closed my eyes I tried to spin but was not able to. I decided to open my eyes and somehow I managed to end back up in the house. I went back up to the mirror again and grabbed hold of the sink. I could clearly feel it in my fingers that I was indeed grasping something. Anyways skip ahead a couple of minutes and I could feel the dream was starting to end. I could tell the dream was starting to end because (wait for it); credits started rolling in a loony-toons esque fashion. I tried the pill method but by the end of the dream I did not really have a body, it was just my vision. A couple seconds later I’m woken up by my brother slamming some doors after he got back from taking somebody to work.

Now my question to you guys is, was this a full-fledged low-level lucid dream? Or was it just a dream where I dreamed I was lucid?

If it was a dream where I was dreaming I was lucid, how close would one say I am to obtaining a lucid dream?

If it was in fact a lucid dream, how can I take full control of my surroundings?

Thanks for reading, any help to a newbie would be much appreciated.

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Well, if you had somewhat control then yes this was an LD. If you did what you wanted then it was an LD but most likely not a ND i dont think. So yeah congratz.

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I would say it was a LD with low lucidity but keep working my first LD sucked but after a week i am better keep working

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That’s funny. In one of my past lucid dreams, I ended the dream by making the Loony Toons ending appear. :tongue:

Technically, any dream where you know that you’re dreaming is a lucid dream. That would mean your dream was lucid! Improved control will probably come to you with practice. If you can’t wait, I suppose you could try taking the lucid pill earlier in your dream, or perhaps use a “dream control pill” instead?

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I had dream credit once too :happy:

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I had opening credits once.
It sounds like a lucid dream. Also you seemed to have a bit of control, You could do a RC at least. The part of not moving your body on your own doesn’t have to mean much. For instance once I flew but then a force took over and I could not control the flight, I was still lucid though. It’s a state of mind.

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I can remember having closing credits in a dream once too.
Its the weirdest thing ever hehehe!

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I asked the exact same question, and got some interesting answers. See the discussion at:
https://community.ld4all.com/t/how-can-you-be-sure-that-a-dream-was-lucid/23647

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A Lucid Dream is defined as a dream in which the dreamer is aware that he/she is dreaming while still in the dream. So the question to ask is “Did I know I was dreaming”?

Yes = Lucid Dream
No = Normal Dream

It does sound like an LD to me.

As for improving lucidity there are different methods:

  1. Shout “INCREASE LUCIDITY NOW”
  2. Really focus that you are in a dream and believe (know) you can do whatever you want.
    3)Do more RC’s to really affirm to yourself that it is a dream.
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I tried that in my last lucid dream. It worked a little bit the first time, and I believe everything got clearer. But after that, I couldn’t shout; my voice had gone so hoarse that I could barely get anything out!

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You can also Rub your hands together

You can also spin really fast lol

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Spinning has worked well for me,however if you are in a cool place it has the nasty little downside of frequently changing your location. :grrr:

Controller - After you try the ILN what you can do is really become aware that your in a dream and understand you can do what you want. Saying ILN can help you get your mind to a point where it is working somewhat logically.