Method That Works For Me

This is the first time I have ever posted on any site about my lucid dreaming. When it first happened I was so shocked and scared I went to the library and read up on it. That was when I was about 20, I am now 36. I have never even looked up lucid dreaming on the internet until tonight and I came across this site by doing a google search. If I had the internet when it happened I would have had great access to information. Now I will get to the point of my post. How I enter it. I am able to enter it by simply over sleeping. It happens to me on the weekends because I wake up at 6 am Monday thru Friday. It does happen every 6 months or so with normal sleep, but if I over sleep it can happen as often as every 3rd time. I have found that when I oversleep I get a headache and feel nauseous. But if I just keep laying in bed and forcing myself to fall asleep again I will enter lucid dreaming. I have to think about lucid dreaming as I lay there sometimes before I will have one, other times I just go into lucid dreaming. I also have noticed that sometimes I get a buzzing in my head before I fall asleep or while I am waking up. The best way I could describe it is that it is like a rising feedback sound and at the time it usually occurs my mind feels like it is really clear. What I mean by clear is that is the complete opposite of how you might feel if you are sleepy and your eyes want to close when you are tired. I hope this helps for anyone who wants to enter lucid dreaming. By the way, I have had plenty of sex dreams with my discovery of lucid dreaming but they have gotten less frequent as I have gotten older. The main things I used to do when I realized I was dreaming was to look around for a girl to do whatever I wanted. But now I tend to look around and explore my enviroment more. Maybe as I am getting older my sex drive is slowing down or the level of my testosterone is lowering. I will say that I feel like having lucid dreams has had an effect on my life. I am a very calm person by nature. I feel like I am able to live a whole life in my dreams and this has made me content. Anything I want to do I can do in my dreams and I don't have to in the non dreaming state. My experiences have made me become a more observant person and somewhat special feeling because I realize how rare lucid dreaming is. I have never met someone who has them. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing like real life experiences that I have to the fullest. Again, I hope this helps someone. ------Al

As I was about to sign off I realized I should add something. I have had one out off body experience that occured in my early 20's. In this dream I went out of my parents house and on to our patio. On a table there was a glass with about one third of liquid in it. I remember telling myself as I felt myself coming out of this lucid dream to look for evidence since this was the only time I had a lucid dream that occured in a place I knew where I was. When I woke up in bed I knew right away what I had to do. I rushed to the window of my bedroom and looked for that glass. To my suprise, it was there just how I had seen it in my dream. I have told this to my friends and some have told me that I must have seen that glass on the table and it was in my subconscience. They can believe what they like but I like to believe that it was real because of how I knew to look for proof that I was there. I have tried over the years to force myself to go to a place where I could go back to and look for objects of proff, but I have been unable to. For some reason I can not remmember in my dreams to try and go to my girlfrends house or where ever I am at sleeping and look for an object. Or for that fact any place I know. I have noticed the more I try to control my lucid dream the more I feel myself wanting to wake up. So I tend to try and not think in my lucid dreams. Or I should say that I only control it for short thoughts, then I let the dream evolve until I give it a short thought of control again. I reapeat this until it gets so difficult to control that I wake up. Usually before I wake up the content of the dream becomes distorted. One that comes to mind is when I was having my way with a girl and she started shrinking until she became about the size of my hand. At that point I woke up. Sorry I keep bringing up sex dreams but they seem to be the ones I remember the most because they are what I had at the beginning of my lucid experiences. As time as gone by my lucid dreams have become less memorable just like every day non eventful experinces. I also want to add that I don't try to oversleep to force them anymore because my girlfriend will not let me sleep the day away, I have to help her clean her townhouse on Saturday's so we can have the rest of the day to do whatever. I had one about four months ago and the trigger for me was that someone was driving a car into my girlfriends garage and I knew she didn't allow anyone to park in her garage. The car was an old station wagon and I also knew that car was too long to fit into her townhouse garage because her Honda Accord barely fits. The builders of homes these days piss me off with their cost cutting, but this opinion is for another type of message board. ok, I think I have rambled enough. Good luck to all who want to have lucid dreams. -----Al

Firstly, Welcome To The Forum Al! :aphiusisonecrazySOB:

It sounds to me like you are using the WILD technique to become Lucid. A lot of people find it hard to that. :)

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Originally posted by popmuzc
Sorry I keep bringing up sex dreams but they seem to be the ones I remember the most because they are what I had at the beginning of my lucid experiences.

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Hehehe. Don't worry, we all don't care. :)

hey nice experiences u metioned and welcome ot the forum

do u ever get pressure associated with the buzzing feeling in ur head

catchya mate ;)

I don't get any pressure inside my head when I get the buzzing feedback. I find it amazing that some people become lucid and others think your making it up because they have never had it.

i wouldnt worry about that....there is a whole world of information and experience out there apart from lucid dreams...astral travel is huge......

but yeh some people like oobe and some ld....up to the individual i guess