I'm a natural! First lucid dream

**Lucidbegginer** · 04-14-2014 10:15 PM

Alright I'm going to try to make this as short as possible. Please read everything.

I started researching lucid dreaming about 2 weeks ago on this site and became very fascinated. After about a week of trying to hard I gave it a rest. I've developed sleep paralysis about 2 years ago and I get it about once a month.

So here's how It started, I'm a sophomore in HS and had a lot of homework last night and at 12 am i was so tired I just said, screw it I'm going to sleep I'll try to wake up at 5 am tommorow to finish it. So keep in mind the past few days I've been taking a break of trying to lucid dream and reality checks. So I set my alarm at 5 am and went to sleep. I wake up in the morning at 5 am and am super super tired, I move very very quickly and turn off my alarm and go back to sleep. As I'm going to sleep for some unknown reason I think wow it was great living back at my old house with my bunk bed, ( 5 years ago ) so I said to my self I'm gonna try to imagine I'm sleeping there just for the fuck of it. ( KEEp in mind at the time I was not even thinking about lucid dreaming it was all just a huge coincidence) by the way have u ever tried what I was doing? Like closing ur eyes outside and imagining ur on a beach and u get to the point where if u think u open ur eyes u will be on a beach, we'll basically that's what I experienced and this all happened in a matter of seconds of falling asleep, so the moment I think I'm at my old house and about to open my eyes , BOOM In sleep paralysis, I'm
Not scared of sleep paralysis at all however I panicked idk why , but I just did, I think before or after I started hearing voices , anyways while I was in the sleep paralysis I hear my dad screaming at me WAKE UP, WAKE up! And I felt him shaking me it felt so real ( my eyes were closed and my dad shakes me slot somtimes to wake me up in the mornings) then I sainto my self. Shit I need to get out of this sleep paralysis before my dad kills me lol, so eventually I wake up and my dad wasn't even there it was just my imagination in my sleep paralysis.

So i know what ur thinking , "wtf that's not a lucid dream" however I think I was a blink away from a lucid dream I was so close ;(. I'm pretty sure if I didn't panic during sleep paralysis it would of went lucid it was so strange because when I was imagining my self sleeping at my old house it felt as if I was really there sleeping but I never opened my eyes it was only for a split second.

So I want to know what u guys think. A lot of WILD tutorials say to imagine like ur somwear or doing somthing which I did by pretending I was somewhere else. Do u guys think I would of went lucid if I didn't panic in the sleep paralysis? Has anyone else experienced somthing like this ? Please just give me some thoughts.

I will be trying this everyday now for this whole week and will post my results. Wish me luck.

**Hebdomeros** · 04-15-2014 02:34 AM

You have to imagine something thats incredibly real and most of the time your brain will fill in the details if you just attempt to use your senses.

for example one of the ways to increase lucidity is to rub your hands together as if to engage your senses.

try being more aware throughout the day, be curious about the things that are happening around you have awareness of what is happening inside and outside of you.

I've lucid dreamed about twice in the past two weeks of trying and attained partial lucidity many times. Idk about sleep paralysis though have you tried the search function? that would have been my first try.