Thread: First Lucid Attempt - DEILD

I discovered Lucid Dreaming through a friend on another forum, he referred me to this site. The past 2 days I've been looking through the site, reading about others Lucid Dreams and everything, and it got me really excited. It seemed like a beautiful and safe way to enter my imagination. I don't think I've ever been Lucid in a dream before, and I remember at least one dream every night.

So last night I went to bed at around 12:00 midnight on a Friday, trying to use the DEILD method (should a first timer use this method?), and after a while fell asleep around 12:20 I believe. I remember having a small dream, I was hanging out with my friends in some store, messing around and laughing. I woke up from the dream, and remembered everything. I shifted SLIGHTLY in my bed before going, NO!, I'm not supposed to move! I realize I only shifted a tiny bit now. But when I realized this, I stopped completely and closed my eyes. I wasn't sure what to focus on, and my mind was all over the place. I tried to focus on being outside somewhere peaceful. And after what seemed like forever my body was tingling and I felt almost numb. I started to feel like I was "sinking" in my bed, it was awesome. My heart was racing, and I was really excited. Right before what I think was entering a dream, I would always get too excited and fade away from the dream, going back to reality. I kept repeating the process of focusing on a scene somewhere, and almost "zooming" in on a specific object with a camera point of view. After about 5 minutes, I got really deep into a dream state. I felt really weird, and once again, got too excited and faded out. I decided to finally move in my bed, THIS is where I got freaked out. Once I rolled in my bed and moved, I sort of "woke up" and came back to reality. I felt really strange and realized, I was in an REM cycle and my body was sleeping, but my mind was wide awake. It was really strange, and cool. I think I was in the halfway point between reality and dream. I'm gonna do this every night, and hopefully I'll get my first Lucid.

Thanks to the forum.