VILD experience

G'day

I'm fairly new here. Been doing alot of reading here (instead of studying for my uni exams ;) ). I have been trying to have LD's for about a week now, so still early days.

Last night I woke up at about 3am roughly 5 hours after going to bed. I tried to visualisation techique that had been posted up recently. The one where you invision walking from the back of your house to the front. I found this quite affective as it's something I do very regularly and I know how the bricks feels etc.

Here's what happened.

I got about half way around my yard when I suddenly felt a huge rush come over me and my stomach tighten (stomach tightening was quite intense, but not unpleasant) as well as a high pitch noise, all at once. I then thought to myself... killer here comes my LD then I sort of snapped outta it. Did i screw it up because i got excited and lost my train of thought?

The noises and sensations lasted probably about 10seconds. Was a pretty cool experience.

I should also probably add that I have fairly good dream recall for a newbie. I can recall 2 - 4 dreams per night without fail.

Anyone got ay advice for me?

Thanks in Advance

Alex

You got too excited? Probably. That was a large contributer to your LD imploding? Probably. The only cause? no.

Not much you can do about the excitement but you CAN immerse yourself in the dream more effectively next time. "Where did that noise come from?" That should have been your line. There is no "I'm not in an LD now and then suddenly I am" There is no sudden transition to a lucid dream state. It is a gradual process. Therefore, instead of looking to be sucked into a lucid state, dive into the dream full throttle. Next time, turn around and locate the source of the noise. flow with what happens and exert your presence into the dream world. You'll be lucid in no time.

Also, what did you do after? Did you try again? Just try... try... try... failure is commonplace but if you persist again and again you can get lucid every night.

Thanks for the reply.

What do you mean drive into it full throttle? keep thinking about walking around my house? or something else?

I did try again a couple more times. But had trouble getting back to sleep because of the excitement. I eventually fell back to sleep.

I mean to keep diving into the dream and away from your real body n' stuff. Don't stop to thing "Am I lucid yet?"