First lucid dream, what was it?

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12-07-2009, 03:27 AM
Drokens

First lucid dream, what was it?

Last night I had my first lucid dream, kinda. I wasn't sure if I was awake in real life or if I dreamt that I woke up, but I decided that since I was tired I'd try to fall asleep into a dream. It worked, as I closed my eyes I fell into a world and was in a retreat on a beach. Everything was very, very vivid and I knew I was dreaming. I walked around waving to everybody. I felt myself getting excited so I settled down. I tried to change stuff and it was really hard though. I couldn't, I could only react how I wanted.

What kind of lucid dream was this? Was it one?
12-07-2009, 06:54 AM
imj

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Originally Posted by Drokens

Last night I had my first lucid dream, kinda. I wasn't sure if I was awake in real life or if I dreamt that I woke up, but I decided that since I was tired I'd try to fall asleep into a dream. It worked, as I closed my eyes I fell into a world and was in a retreat on a beach. Everything was very, very vivid and I knew I was dreaming. I walked around waving to everybody. I felt myself getting excited so I settled down. I tried to change stuff and it was really hard though. I couldn't, I could only react how I wanted.

What kind of lucid dream was this? Was it one?

It was a lucid because you KNEW it was a dream. As for what kind...a high lucidity one because you were aware of dream control and tried to calm down....to do that you need quite a high level of awareness of waking life/self. For me a low level lucid would barely have anything else other than vaguely aware it's a dream.

IMJ
12-08-2009, 01:11 AM
Drokens

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Originally Posted by imj

It was a lucid because you KNEW it was a dream. As for what kind...a high lucidity one because you were aware of dream control and tried to calm down....to do that you need quite a high level of awareness of waking life/self. For me a low level lucid would barely have anything else other than vaguely aware it's a dream.

IMJ

No, I mean what type. Such as wild or dild.
12-08-2009, 10:04 AM
imj

It's dream rentry. You go directly to REM without the HI stuff..it happens with waking up briefly and going back to sleep thinking.

IMJ
12-08-2009, 04:16 PM
innerspacecadet

My guess is that it was a DILD masquerading as a WILD - you dreamed that you were awake and "fell asleep" instantly into a lucid dream. This happened to me at least once, when I was active here...and I took advantage of it to do a Task of the Month. This false WILD then ended in a false awakening where I went to record it.

If you really were awake before you "fell asleep" into the lucid dream, then it was a WILD. I was never very good at having those, although my first lucid dream in which I was able to stay asleep and fly around seemed to have been one...I fell asleep very quickly and was conscious of fading into a dream, with all the weird sensations that come with falling asleep. About a year before that, I'd had a very short DILD that I woke up from almost as soon as I attained lucidity. That was disappointing.