Grrr

[Tweek]

Okay so I've had 3 lucids that I've had complete control over. One was really long and I did do what ever I wanted. The first one I lost it because I got too excited. 3rd, I failed at flying and lost it. So I haven't had a lucid in over a year now.(controled) I've been practicing for 3 nights now and I've been telling myself that I will wake up after every dream I have. Which I have done successfully. I have been able to wake up after my first dream of the night, and usually it's once I realize that it is a dream, not so much afterwards. Last night I had my first dream only 2 hours after I fell asleep too!(Oh F***, I just now realized after editing this post that that might have been a FA looking at the clock. I don't really remember though.) Last night I was attempting a WILD, but once I woke up I was having a hard time visualizing a dream scene to jump into, so I tried going back into the dream I was just in. I was visualizing the last scene anyways, and I felt myself slipping into the dream very quickly and I started getting some strong halucinations, but then before I knew it I was back where I started. So last night was closest I've gotten to knowing that I'm going into a dream. It actually felt like I was in a dream for a split second. What should I be doing at that point? I was trying pretty hard to visualize my hands reaching out to grab something, but I didn't have enough time in that state to actually get into the dream. Should I have actually tried to open my eyes at that point?

[erik212]

Well, if you can't get anchored into the dream, then you can't have an LD that way. Also, you should try going for more than three days before starting to worry about not getting it. I say that you could have opened your eyes. If you were not in a dream, it wouldn't wake you up. I enter hypnagogia with my eyes open anyway.

[Robot_Butler]

Sorry to hear about the dry spell. There are so many little things that can keep you from being lucid. Timing, brain chemistry, environmental conditions. It is so frustrating sometimes.

[Tweek]

Well it wasn't so much a dry spell as it was not trying. I just recently started trying. It feels like I'm getting so close though. It's just so hard for me to imagine anything past the first hallucinations and the enlightenment. I really don't ever remember anything passed the first vivid colors and shapes if I fall asleep from there.

[Excessaccess]

I enter hypnagogia with my eyes open anyway. Huh? How do you do that?

[Tweek]

I was reading on wikkipedia about hypnagogic hallucinations. They described the feeling of floating and or intense euphoria. I'm into hypnosis too and I've done self-hypnotisim once and it was awesome. So I'm going to give myself some suggestions while I feel my first euphoria coming on, and then I'll go from there. I think I'm going to attempt a WILD tonight. If I fail, I'm going to attempt a FILD. I can enter REM within 2 hours of sleeping though, as I did last night. So hopefully I'll have many chances tonight.

[Tweek]

Yeah it feels like I'm getting a lot closer. I still seam to have a problem losing concentration and just fall asleep. I've even tried getting up to get a drink, I still end up trying 2 quick tries to get into SP and fall asleep.

[Tweek]

Alright so last night I got to SP where my whole body felt as if it were falling through the ground/my bed. My breathing became very rapid and I was just waiting for the feelings to get strong. I then tried to jump up in bed, and I was awake. even though I knew I was in SP, I could feel my body being pulled away in a dream at the first instant I moved, but when I got up, I was awake? What went wrong?