First lucid, and where to go from there?

Well, I did it. I can't be happier to finally achieve lucidity for the first time in my life. But, as you can imagine, I got too excited and woke up. I couldnt even do an RC upon waking up because I think that I was still in Sleep Paraysis, which is something else I have never felt before. I couldnt move, and I was still very tired. So I just fell back asleep, right into a non lucid false awakening. A story for another time.

Having my first lucid has made me want to have more and more. I looked upon the detail that was my key to becoming aware: I stared at a watch around my left wrist and realized I was late for work. When I panicked and looked at my night stand's alarm clock, it read a different time. That brief moment of realization felt so amazing, that I wish it could have lasted longer. So I am trying to use my watch as my primary RC now. But is this practical? I've never dreamed about my watch before. I've been logging my dreams every day, and reading them once and a while to think about any possible dream signs and recurring elements. Other than trying new techniques, is there anything else I can passively work on to help have more lucids?

You're on the right track, the best way to have more LDs is by experiencing them. Keep doing what you're doing now and stay focused, then as you get more LDs you'll learn how to stabilize them and you'll get to a point (like me) where you sporadically have a few LDs each month. Then I'd suggest paying close attention to your LDs as I usually experience a weird subtle feeling that's different from true reality. This feeling might make you lucid in future dreams.

Hi,

Congrats on your first lucid :yeah
From now on, that you have reached a first lucid dream and probably built daily habit of reality checking you might get frequent lucid dreams
So i belive you should focus now on making those experiences more mindblowing n' awesome :goodjob2:
Yet, don't forget about Waking Practices they are still as important as they were before.

As you enter a lucid dream first you should keep yourself calm and relaxed so you won't tear it apart.
Tell yourself mindfully with confidence that your dreaming, so it will leave solid memory on your mind (A small prevention from losing lucidity)
And after doing so perform your choosen 'Dream Stabilization'.
We use Dream Stabilization stuff for keeping us in dream to prevent early awakenings
My first stabilization technique that i used was just looking intensively at my left hand.
I suggest you performing stabilization technique:
- At Start Of The Dream
- When Dream Destabilizes (When world around you gets blurry, foggy, messy or you start to feel your real body etc. Just when it seems like dream is fading away)
Even if you were unable to stabilize dream and it ended then there's still a chance, you can still resume it as long as you are still in Rem Phase of sleep. It is called a DEILD Technique
As you wake up from destabilized dream keep your eyes closed and lie still motionlessly in relaxed manner, you might start to get 'Rem Atonia' sensations (Sleep Paralysis we experience during DEILDs/WILDs after waking up is called actually Rem Atonia, The Real Medical Sleep Paralysis is a little different thing). By lying motionlessly and pretending to be still asleep your body will remain still in rem atonia and it will try to send you back into a dream (Only if your still in a rem cycle)(You might feel vibrations, see weird stuff or hear weird stuff. It's just process of entering a dream, so don't worry. This stuff happens everynight when we transition into a dream yet we don't remember it because we were unconscious.)

After learning important stuff of Dream Stabilization there's a fun part which is Dream Control
Anyways i belive those tutorials i wrote down below will explain this stuff better than me (I've included some dream stabilization ones aswell :yeah )

And now, Goodluck fellow lucid dreamer :offtobed:

Official DreamViews:
Stabilization - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Dream Control Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Community Driven:
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...m-control.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...-tutorial.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...-hours-ld.html

Wonderful links, thank you so much! Since I started RCing, I still find it challenging for me to do RCs at my job, which really sucks because most of my non lucid dreams are at work (at a pharmacy.) I'm thinking of ways for me to RC during my shifts, because I forget to think about it. The only thing I thought of so far, is writing something my hand that reminds me.

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Wonderful links, thank you so much! Since I started RCing, I still find it challenging for me to do RCs at my job, which really sucks because most of my non lucid dreams are at work (at a pharmacy.) I'm thinking of ways for me to RC during my shifts, because I forget to think about it. The only thing I thought of so far, is writing something my hand that reminds me.

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If you have good memory you can try reality check like reminding yourself what were you doing about a hour ago. I'm not sure if it's going to succeed but it might.

You'd either not remember or you'd assume that you were in bed maybe?

I had my second lucid this week! But I still struggle to remain calm enough to stabilize. At this point, I'll just have to practice stability. My goal is to LD every night, and I have no doubt that I can do it when I get enough experience.

Congratulations on your second lucid dream!

You sound like you are really progressing in the right direction.

My first lucid dream was a very important experience that I will remember for the rest of my life.

It was an extremely vivid WILD that seemed to last forever.