Hey guys!

Guess what happened last night? LUCID! And the first thing that I remembered was cooleymd's response.

So...

First off, I don't know exactly why I became lucid, but I did. I looked at my hands, realized I had twelve fingers, and then rubbed a little bit. Meanwhile, I tried to remember what I was going to do, and cooleymd's technique came to mind first, but with a little typo. I happened to remember him saying "try looking for 10 hubcaps," but I forgot about that being wrong. I thought to myself, "10 hub caps? What's the fun in that?" and I tried thinking of something that would be more interesting.

In reality, he said:
Quote Originally Posted by cooleymd
be careful not to set a goal like finding 10 hub caps or something, next thing you know everything is made out of them and next thing you know your goal is done, and your dream might end.
The first thing that came to mind was one of my long-time goals: shoot a firearm in a LD. So, I thought that I would try looking for 10 guns. At first, I was a skeptic, but then I happened to use a little dream control. I saw this desk, and created the expectation within my mind that there was a gun in the keyboard tray, and sure enough, there was! It was a Welrod-type thing, but it shot ball bearings. I took a few shots with it, and it was nice! Then, I created the expectation that if I fiddled with it a bit, I could get it to shoot full-auto, which it did!

This was not only a great step forward in terms of stabilization, but also in dream control, and I can't thank cooleymd enough for the advice. This dream was one of my longest LD's yet, reaching about a minute. It's still not much, but I could imagine there's a bit of a learning curve.

I think the biggest takeaway for me from that advice was in, "Get a goal, get moving." I realize now that all of my previous short LD's were short because I had no idea what to do. What's the point of being lucid if you're not going to do anything?

Thank you so much,
Jelly

p.s. I'll be sure to post when I try ImpossibleMinds' technique soon!