everything u guys teach, HAS PAID OFF....couple questions tho....

[FOATL]

Hey guys......as some of you already know I have had a few lucids, nothing spectacular tho....i just had dreams where i realized I was dreaming and i was able to change a few things......i recently came upon this site, after having a re-occurring dream i got tired of having and one night and in the middle of it, i just stopped and turned around and looked at all of my dream characters and said "Im tired of having this stupid dream". then i purposely woke myself up..... I've been naturally becoming lucid in my dreams all my life, just never really paid attention to it, or study it as an art....never really gave it a thought really until i got older and started having re-occurring dreams that i didnt like. I used to just closed my eyes really hard and I would wake myself. I come to this board and I read all these skills about induction, incubation, stabilizing, RC's, etc......and the shit intrigued me.... So this is what happened a few nights ago.... I planned to do a WBTB........ set my alarm to wake me early. went to bed..... alarm goes off. i wake up with no memories of any dreams.... I get up, smoke a cigarette, watch some of my favorite pornstar for about a half-hour.... went back to the bed.....made plans my plans with the WBTB were to start with a MILD, which may become a DILD, and if i wake, turn that into maybe a DEILD. I lay down, saying my mantra....i dont remember when i stopped saying it...i just felt a short while of "darkness"... i then get up, walk down my stairs, and see my dog, but my dog doesnt see me, so i try to walk past him... when i do, he sees me and jumps in some sort of "fear"....when he jumps, it made ME JUMP. But when I jumped....i floated.. BAM!----False AWAKENING!!!! I actually thought i was awake........so im floating in my kitchen....i immediately get too excited and i can feel my heart racing.... i tell myself, "Calm down....this is it....this is what you've been wanting....relax".....and my floating stops....im standing alone in my kitchen in mid dream....totally lucid..... i remember everything you guys in here teach..... it starts getting really dark.....i start rubbing my hands together and they get really hot, very quickly.....the darkness, 'stops'.... then i say out loud, "Ok, lets do this!"....so i SPIN.....when i spinned i ended up in total blackness, or a a VOID....then im like, "WTF?" I can't see shit!....aw man..... then all of a sudden in this darkness, i cant feel nothing but my head.....but i keep my eyes SHUT....then i start to feel my body.... then im like "damn....i woke my self by spinning".. i open my eyes, and sure enuff, im laying in my bed again.....but I DONT MOVE! I said im not giving up, lets keep trying!!!! i quickly remembered to do a RC with my nostrils and finger thru the palm this time, especially after the false awakening i just had.... my rc's fail, and im really awake....i lay back down quickly and shut my eyes trying to pick up where i left off.... with my eyes closed....im saying my mantra.......again...i cant remember the point in which i stopped saying it.... then i could FEEL....some time go by....eyes still shut...i feel very disappointed and discouraged now.....i feel like i cant get back to sleep.... but i dont give up, and i lay there..... after what felt like an hour of being BORED IN THE DARK.....BOOM I felt like i jumped out of bed....but i jumped into a giant bedroom filled with people. Somebody told me, "You're dreaming now." it was the most VIVID REALISTIC DREAM i've ever had. i'm standing in a room, and someone else says, "this is your room"......but in real life, it was my sons bedroom, only like 20 times bigger. I'm amazed, at how real this seems, so i start talking to myself out loud...."Lets take a look around, lets examine some things..." I jump and fly to the ceiling, which seems like 100 feet...I float and feel the walls, looking all around, I fly around the top of the room, looking at the posters on the wall, steroes, toys.....theres all kinds of random shit.....and i see all these people in the room...and i fly around them....i fly back and forth across the room.....and i rub my hands or look at them every so often...when i want to fly i just squeeze my hands together...the tighter i squeeze, the faster i go...... so then i want to really do some things so i land, and i ask "ok wheres my dream guide?" (i had already picked what i wanted my dream guide to be, it was my first girlfriend from back when i was in high school....) but whoever it is talking to me, i never see them..... so i walk out of this bedroom, or "my bedroom" into the next room, which was a restaurant i saw in some movie.... as im walking i expected to see my dream guide, and here she came from around the corner, with an entourage.... she had on a business suit and she shook my hand and told me she was my dream guide, and she will assist me on my travels.. (she will tell me when i need to focus, or rub my hands, or let me know when my lucidity is ending....) i saw many people i had never seen before in my waking life....and i just started staring at everybody....knowing that they were dream characters... it felt SOOOOO WEIRD.it was SOOO AMAZING...I said, so 'THIS IS REAL LUCIDITY'.........my guide looks at me and smiles...and says "rub your hands together"... so i rub..... i read somewhere in this forum, that if you simply use the power of expectation....things will happen... remembering that...i fly to the ceiling again, and started throwing fireballs....then i shot some lightning outta my hand....i reached into my pocket and pulled out a tommygun and started shooting it......IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING EXPERIENCE EVER... Then i landed back down......and i thought about my favorite pornstar....thats when i ruined everything i sat at the table, and expected to see her, and i looked over my shoulder, and she was sitting at the very next table.... thats when i got too excited..... I went over and grab her, ....and lets just say uhhhh.....you know what happened..... but after only a couple minutes....she started "smearing"....away...............then i woke up Im like damn.....im back in bed....do another RC....yeah, im back in bed....but amazed....and i wake up about 5 minutes before my alarm goes off for me to get ready for work... all you guys who write tutorials, and teach, and give advice, i thank you, your work has provided me with the most amazing experience.... IT REALLY IS WORTH IT....YOU WILL FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE YOUR VERY OWN PRIVATE MATRIX.... Im a newbie myself, but my advice---have in mind a few things beforehand what you want to do when you become lucid! me personally, i cant use the spin move.....every time ive tried it, it woke me....which is something that ive probably created myself mentally by associating spinning with waking...so for me to teleport i have to use doors... squeezing my hands together tighter to fly faster is something i used to do when i would dream i was flying as a kid, i picked it up subconsciously from the feeling of riding my bike faster, and i guess it just stayed with me.... my question to you all is...........i do RC's all thru the day, but i never remember to do them in dreams.....every time i became AWARE, or LUCID in a dream, it came from just AWARENESS....after i was AWARE, then i would do the RC to confirm.......but i never remember to do a RC randomly by itself...why is that????? hOW do you remember to do RC's in dreams.....??? i must do them 100 times a day in real life

[Silentium]

Congratulations! That sounds awesome! Personally, I think you are already doing a very great job by becoming aware in your dreams without using a RC, I'm proud of you! If you really want to make yourself do RC's in your dreams though, I suggest using a dream sign, it will prevent you from having to do 100 RC's a day. Good luck!

[FOATL]

Congratulations! That sounds awesome! Personally, I think you are already doing a very great job by becoming aware in your dreams without using a RC, I'm proud of you! If you really want to make yourself do RC's in your dreams though, I suggest using a dream sign, it will prevent you from having to do 100 RC's a day. Good luck! dream signs....hmmm.......thanks!

[dutchraptor]

The RC's are not the focus, but the awareness boost they provide is. The actual reality check part is used for making sure you are dreaming, whereas the lead up to the reality check is what makes you lucid, whether it be through general awareness or a dream sign. Almost all dreams aren't triggered by RC's, it's quite rare from what most people say. The point is that you question reality in walking life and thus you will potentially transfer the questioning to lucid dreaming. Its even entirely possible to RC without even thinking about lucidity in the dream. As silentium pointed out, a dream sign does help alongside the occasional random RC. My dream sign is doors and I generally do 4-10 door RC's and 4-20 standard RC's through the day.