I think I had my first LD last night, but I’m not sure.
I was in some sort of building, a really big one. Suddenly I made a RC (the one when you try to push your finger through the palm of your hand), and it worked! I tried another RC just to be sure, this time I tried to breathe while holding my nose. I could still breathe and I got this strange feeling in my body.
I got excited and ran to the first DC I saw, it was a young woman. I did the finger RC and told her “Look! I’m dreaming!” She got a bit angry and didn’t say anything, she just walked away from me. I didn’t care so much about that so I found the exit and got out. I ran really fast and tried to fly, so I jumped up really high and then flew in high speed towards the clouds. I don’t remember much from the flying part, but I think I fell on the ground.
I got so excited that I didn’t know what to do next. Suddenly I saw a book with things to do in my dream. I started reading and decided to teleport myself to New York.
I can’t remember what happened next, probably woke up.
The thing is, it felt almost like a normal dream, except the part when I did a RC and got that strange feeling. I don’t remember smelling or feeling anything. Maybe I dreamed that i dreamed of having a LD?
It seemed to me that all my lucid dreams have felt different to my normal dreams. Describing exactly how they felt different is quite difficult. When you say you had a “strange feeling” that could have been because you were lucid. It felt pretty unique to me too. You need to remember what you were thinking during the dream. If you knew you were dreaming and what that meant, you were probably lucid. From what you have said, I think this was a lucid dream that faded into an ND.
ok, so i only heard about lucid dreams yesterday. i think i had 2 lucid dreams last night, but not sure. the first one i remember thinking, better not write that one down lol. my second one:
(not sure if its lucid though)
I was in a steel cage and said, “I want to be above the ocean.”
I went above the ocean and tried diving in but as soon as i touched it, i was in an icy tundra. then i woke up.
is this weak lucidity?
I wouldn’t say that this was a Lucid dream, since you didn’t realize you were dreaming, it’s possible to not know you are dreaming but still affect the dream with conscious thoughts. I believe it is a good thing that this is happening, it’s not a huge leap from affecting your dreams without knowing you are dreaming to suddenly realizing, “How come I can change things?” Closely followed by “I must be dreaming.”
Well
a few days ago, while I was dreaming, I accidentally saw my reflection and I looked so strange, I don’t know, just like I a ghost. I said to myself `Hey! This can’t be real’ and I tried to do a RC (the nose one) but I couldn’t move my hands. I tried again and again, but I woke up.
Do you think that was a LD? Or maybe I was dreaming about lucid dreaming? And why couldn’t I do the RC? :\
Haha on the first page of this forum a guy says he had the problem of not really remembering. I feel like I became lucid for a while (specifically remembering that I told myself I would remember this when I woke up), but when I did wake up I was like… was that normal dream that I had control over? Or was I lucid.
It sounds like you’re well on the way to being lucid there. I’m not sure you can say this particular dream was lucid, you would need to have actually realized that you were dreaming for it to be lucid. It does sound like you were questioning it though. Only you can say how much you felt it was a dream, or whether you just thought it was strange.
You have to ask if you realized you were dreaming during the dream. It’s possible for lucidity to play a part in a dream, without you realizing that you really are lucid at that moment in the dream.
Yeah I’m pretty sure I was, but I didn’t know if it’s way too early in my practicing to think I had one already… That’s the other thing, my dream recall is much too poor to remember clearly, but like I said, I specifically remember telling my self “I am going to remember this when I wake up” after I got the tfeeling I was lucid
There is no requirement that you have practiced to achieve lucidity, many people have lucid dreams without even knowing what they are. It’s possible you could have told yourself you wanted to remember this reflexively. Only you know whether you told yourself to remember because you liked the dream, or because you realized you were dreaming and wanted to ensure you’d not forget it.
Hello, I am new to this and I’ve been on this message board for 30 minutes looking for what I’m talking about, so I thought I would post in here.
I took a nap after staying up late the night before a few days ago, and instantly after laying down began to feel fuzzy, I knew I was going in and out of sleep. Soon after this (a few minutes I’d guess) I was dreaming. I was in the passenger seat of a car with my friend, and we were parked in a grocery store parking lot with the windows down. A lady came up to the window and started talking to my friend but she was making absolutely no sense, but my roommate could understand. I knew something was up, and, after reading about lucid dreaming a few days before, said in my head, “Waaaait. This is a dream.” Instantly everything froze in my surroundings and I began very slowly zooming towards the driver window. I felt like I was being held tight for some reason. I noticed that everything around me was so vivid and everything was so quiet. Then I began to worry about my body sleeping in my bed, that I would stop breathing (because I was laying on my stomach), but just said “oh well” and continued. Right as I thought “Ok, now let’s try something!”, somebody in the hall outside my room (I’m in a dorm) slammed their door, and I woke up.
Was this an LD? I really think it is because I was conscious in my dream, not just realizing I was. I was worried about my physical body. But I think the reason I felt like I was being held was because of my body laying on my stomach. Anyways, I know this is a long post and you guys get a lot of these, but any help would really be appreaciated. Thanks a lot!
This has happened to me a lot, and it happened twice last night. I think it is beetween WILD and DILD. It happens when I wake up too early (Usually at 5 or 6 am, the “juicy dream period”, as I call it) I then fall asleep again (or try to) and shortly after loosing consiousness I find myself in a dream. I then may or may not notice I am dreaming, but this state is a very light sleep and it is very easy to wake up, I feel I can do it instantly if I want, as if I really weren’t asleep. But in tonights’s sleep, It happened twice, once while I was falling asleep, the other as usual. In the first I was playing ping-pong (something I am learning in real life) I didn’t know it was a dream until noticed that there was no longer a ball but instead a wine bottle, then I inmediatly woke up. Then I had a normal dream (really cool I tried and did use four assault riffles at the same time) then I woke up because of allergy then I felt asleep again and in the next dream I got a bit lucid and some control. After I tried controling to much I woke up.
I was riding on a bike with a friend trough the treets of GTA: san andreas. Suddenly we stopted. I looked at my bike and realised their was a vital part missing. It was then that I realised I couldn’t have ride that bike since it should be impossible. I must be dreaming! I had a strange feeling that I have never had in my life. Everything became very clear. But I was too enthousiastic and woke up after a few seconds.
Tonight I had a strange dream… I dreamt that I was on a bus with my family, we were all alone.
My mother drove the bus, but suddenly my mother and my sister went off.
Then my father started driving the bus, and then we came to a traincross (?) and my dad became crazy and started to drive the bus like a wild monkey so I jumped off the bus, and my father just drove away. When he drove, he almost got hit by a train.
And then, when I woke up, I was so dizzy… I almost fell… like three times! It was like the dream was real! As if I really did jump off the buss.
And I had another dream right after the first one! I was sitting on MSN, talking to a friend of mine… suddenly I realised I was dreaming, and decided to ask him a question, but I coulden’t think of a proper question… and then I woke up!
Can somebody tell me, did I have a lucid dream?
From what you describe I don’t think the first dream was an LD. The second is more likely. It does sound like it could be, when you say you realised you were dreaming did you really realise?
For instance did you decide to ask your friend a question, or did it just sort of happen? If it sort of happened then it is possibly a false lucid dream, where you dreamed you were lucid dreaming. A false lucid dream is almost like your mind playing out a dream of what being lucid might be like without you actually realising you are dreaming, it can be tricky to tell the difference at times, but an LD often has a different feel about it to other dreams. The feeling is difficult to describe though.
Well, it might have been a lucid dream. She got lucid for the first time and ‘freaked’ a bit (like I think all of us have done in our first lucid dream), so she wanted to ask her friend a question since she knew it wasn’t real and wanted to see the response Sometimes we make bad calls when dreaming When we get lucid we often take advantage of the things already infront of us.
I think I may have had another somewhat accidental LD last night. I wish I could remember it all clearly but I can’t. I just recall that I had been having a rather long dream, and I was outside, and after having had the dream for a while I just randomly realized I was dreaming. As always, the dreamscape began to fade (it was more dramatic than usual this time… the scenery outside was beautiful, and I could watch it fading to black; it was actually really cool) but I quickly remembered to look at my hands and rub them together.
This brought it back into focus for a few seconds, but then it started to fade again, so I think I was just going to scream or yell, and I remembered that you’re supposed to yell something like “Increase Lucidty!”, so I yelled “Lucidity times 1000!” and it was strangely quiet, and hard to get out, and didn’t really sound like me. It did indeed make the scenery come back, even brighter than before I believe, but then it quickly faded and I woke … into what I think may have been an FA. It really sucks that I can’t remember.
I remember either waking or dreaming of waking and being excited about having an LD and thinking I should write it down right away… but then it’s like I got distracted or something and didn’t end up doing it… So when I woke up in the morning, I couldn’t remember for sure if I had awoken in the night and just fallen right back asleep, or if I had an FA. I wish I could remember.
I’m also not sure, now, if I was really lucid or if it was an FLD. It seems like I could’ve just been dreaming about doing those techniques and about the scenery fading. The idea that I may have had an FA leads me to believe this further … like the FA was just a continuation of my FLD or ND.
so I jumped off the bus, and my father just drove away. When he drove, he almost got hit by a train.
Sometimes we make bad calls when dreaming 
after reading what you told me, i think i just had a false LD 
