Thread: My first lucid, I think...

Ah it seems as though you were attempting a wake-initiated lucid dream (WILD). I'm quite new at this also so count me if I'm wrong.

The levitating and tingling feeling could your sleep paralysis kicking in.

From what I've heard, a lucid dream is defined as a dream where you know that you're dreaming. Lucid meaning "mentally sound" and dream meaning... well I'm sure you know what dream means.

I'm also guessing that you were dreaming when that plastic bag came out of nowhere if I'm not mistaken.

As far as seeing nothing but darkness while attempting a WILD, you're guess is as good as mine! I've been experiencing the same thing while attempting a WILD.

Well I hope this clears something up!

As long as you had a dream in which you were aware you were dreaming, then yes it was a lucid dream. The fact that you were able to calm yourself down during a nightmare is proof of this. Judging by that description it was a WILD (waking induced lucid dream).

Keep trying, and don't let this scare you, just remember that not only is it all in your mind, it's all just a natural part of your mind, not something that can harm you.

Hey guys I'm so happy I finally experienced a lucid dream. I never intended to try the WILD technique, so I'm even more excited that I did it :

But because of my excitement I failed last night. I ended up not getting as much sleep as I needed to and failed I kept waking up almost every hour and then by 6 am I just couldn't get back to sleep anymore. Hopefully tonight I have a much better luck.

Dear Ceve,

Really, when you have been asleep and have just temporarily woken up, then it is easier to Astrally Project... to lift out of the Body and gently move away by 10 or 20 meters, so that proximity to the body doesn't whip you back. Once you are that far away, then you can lift up and into the higher astral planes, where it is as good or better than your typical Lucid Dream.

Now, Lucid Dreams are for when one is still asleep and comes into a REM Cycle... when one begins a normal Dream. that is the proper time for considering Lucid Dreaming.

This is just not quibbling over words. Certain techniques are easier when applied at the right time for the right effect. Astral Projecting is easier going from waking into sleeping. And obviously it is easier to go from Dreaming into Lucid Dreaming.

However, I one was able to go from Lucid Dreaming to Astral Projection. When I had gone Lucid, I oriented myself horizontally and on my back, and facing upward, and then concentrated on going upward. Well I shot up into the sky. In the dream, it was day time, and so as I went up and up, I could see that I was leaving the earth's atmosphere as the sky grew darker as I moved into Outer Space. When I was totally up in the blackness of space, the dream scene blew apart and I found myself several hunded feet above my building. It was early in the morning and I could hear my Landlady rattling the rice pots down below getting ready for breakfast. Anyway, I had decided to explore a bit before the Landlady would wake me up ( I was in the Far East living in a Boarding House at the time). I went to the town square near the Rail Way Station. and was surprised to find a Statue of a General on a horse. It isn't there in Real Life. it turns out that such a statue had been there before the japanese occupation, but since the General it depicted had been famous for kicking Japanese Ass, the statue had been removed... the same Japanese Sour Grapes they are characterized for throughout the Far East -- poor losers and even poorer winners. Anyway this points out that the Astral Plane, even where it closely corresponds to the Physical World, is not completely identical but has both subjective and psychic details superimposed.

And then I woke to a nice cheery breakfast of fish and rice.