Thread: First Attempt at Lucid Dreaming

Last night was my first attempt at lucid dreaming, and I failed miserably. I have been researching lucid dreaming and have been recording my dreams and do generally spent a fair amount of time thinkin about them, as I do generally love dreaming.

So when I went to bed at around 0:20, I laid on my back and closed my eyes and started thinking about what not to do and that I was going to lucid dream. In less than a minute I felt "the buzz" in my head and it quickly consumed me in about 10 seconds.
This was really awesome for me, as I have never experienced this before, I then spent a while in the buzzing mode where my body was going numb, and it felt like I was dizzy. Sometimes I accidentally moved my leg slightly as I was uncomfortable, but very rarely and this didn't stop the buzzing. About 10 minutes into the buzzing mode I accidentally opened my eyes as I noticed my left eye was slighty opened. Then I immediatly closed them again and sat there buzzing for a long time, the only moving I did was swallowing every now and then.

So, I sit there thinking and waiting for what seemed a long time. I was thinking that might have been in sleeping paralysis but thought that I just had to wait for the REM stage. After a while I was getting quit hot and got kind of tired of waiting, so I opened my eyes and moved (my alarm clock said it was 1:20, which is about an hour later), my entire body kind of reacted slowly, I took my t-shirt off and I positioned myself on my side (as that is how I normally sleep) and went to bed, only feeling the buzz very briefly for a few seconds when I just got out of the subconscious state.

So, I did not "lucid dream". I went to bed because I had to get up at 7:00 and I wanted to get a good nights sleep, I do not have a great amount of patience either. Is there anything I particularly did wrong or anything I should do?

Best Regards, Lemony.