lucid

Wow, a lucid dream inside of a non lucid dream! Cool! Actually it was a shared dream. There were malevolent spirits of some kind that would come and force people into nightmares. People in the same room put under by the same spirit shared the nightmare. They weren't random nightmares. The spirits were trying to communicate something. I don't know what.

During one of these nightmares I held onto the understanding that I was dreaming. There was a woman in great emotional agony and I wanted toh elp her. I made a gun appear in my hand and I shot her to wake her up. Somehow this gave everyone the power to leave the dream.

I woke up to dream layer one. There was a large group of people; a class, I guess. Apparently the teacher had told the class that once we finally escape the nightmares we'll have a party. I was supposed to have brought dessert but I had nothing with me. I ran downstairs to the food court to find dessert. Meanwhile irl there's a construction crew outside. I encorporated their racket into my dream by interpreting it as the sound of a blender in the food court. Shortly thereafter I woke up for real.

My very first moments of lucidity in dreamland. Before I went to sleep I repeated to myself, "I'm dreaming." A couple of dreams later, one of my dream characters told me, "You're dreaming!" He said it twice and then I gasped and said, "I'm dreaming!" at which point I had a strange rushing feeling and everything went blank. I was waking up so quickly and I was so taken by surprise I didn't think to spin. When fully awake I almost didn't believe it had happened.

I started my dream log on the 25th of July, so it's been just over a week from my decision to lucid dream to my first successful experience. Considering that I've never had a lucid dream before, even by accident, I consider this enormously encouraging. Thanks, fellow dreamers, for your support.