Hello everyone!
I joined this forum yesterday. I had been interested in lucid dreaming for quite some time, but never really actually tried it. Last night I found this website, and eventually ended up reading the guide and forum posts until late, right before I went to bed… and it was all so fresh in my head, I think I had a lucid dream without even trying. Is that possible?
It all started when I went to bed. I have an aunt visiting so I had to sleep in my sister’s room. So when I went to bed, I started to think that the next morning I wouldn’t be able to write my dream right away… then I started to drift into sleep, and then suddenly, it was morning and I was there, in my sister’s bed, writting about my last dream. And then someone from school appeared, and suddenly I was at a party, talking with friends.
The “lucid” sensation was very… slight, I don’t know how to describe it. I never had a LD before so I don’t know what it feels like. I recall being slightly aware that I was dreaming, yet everything seemed perfectly fine… in my dream I was walking on the street with a friend looking for a place to buy cigarretes. When we got to a place, there was a number on the wall, so I decided to do a reality check (I had read about it earlier and had started doing it when checking time on my cellphone) anndd… it changed! And I remember going “HECK YES!” in my mind and getting really happy about it.
After that, I used my mind to make some money appear (for the cigs ) and also to make my cellphone appear, because I could feel it vibrating but I knew I didn’t have it because I was dreaming. Then I went like “duh, you’re dreaming, make it appear!”. And it suddenly appeared in my bag.
The reasons I’m not 100% sure it was a total lucid dream are the fact that the sensation of conciousness was very “light”. I didn’t manage my whole dream, I just made some decisions, made objects appear… but actually felt as if I was reasoning awake. It’s so strange to describe. Also, the fact that I didn’t really do anything to try to get a LD!
I woke up very happy anyway. I realized I actually controled my dream, besides the dream was very nice and I was surrounded by people I like. It was a great experience!
Do you think this counts as a LD? Will the sensations get “deeper” as I get more experienced, or do they always feel “light”? Not that I didn’t like it or was expecting more, I loved the feeling, I’m just curious