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    It can be done! I'm hooked :D

    by , 04-08-2015 at 01:40 PM (595 Views)
    Hey everyone!

    I was so happy that some of you commented on my first Lucid and DJ entry. You were right it does get frustrating! I was so close multiple times when I first started going for my second lucid dream (also had my first false awakening within that first week, and my first nightmare in a very long time), but it seemed to get harder to keep focus and confidence as time past, it even got harder just to write down my dreams. I had some really good vivid dreams when I did my first wake back to bed's, but they seemed to get more and more fragmented and unsure. Yesterday evening I could feel myself giving up slightly and I didn't even think of dreaming before I went to sleep. In the morning my BF woke up early to go to the university. It woke me up and I went to the bathroom before I went back to bed.

    In my dream I was walking around on the balconies of a very large castle when I suddenly became aware that I was in a dream and I became conscious. I felt the incredible rush of the realization and to ground myself I immediately slapped my hands together and started rubbing them against each other. I did it! I stabilized the dream and I walked inside the castle. It was much less impressive inside. It looked more like a ruin than a castle. I began thinking "what was I supposed to do now?" and I remembered the basic task of the month which said to take a shower in your dream and I started looking for a bathroom. And found a few, but they were both gross and as I was leaving the second bathroom I heard the door to my real room open and I knew it was my BF coming in to say goodbye. AAAAAARGH NOOOOO ! Oh well, I went back to sleep and had a normal non-lucid dream about a kidnapping at a hotel, somehow I turned of my alarm without me remembering it (again!), but maybe that was what triggered my next lucid dream (THANK GOD!)

    This time I became lucid in a restaurant at a hotel. I was walking around looking at people's food and one pizza looked particularly good, I wanted to take it, but it belonged to a guy who sat at a table with three other guys and I was not going to risk them getting mad. Again I remembered the TotM and I went into one of the rooms at the hotel, somehow my female childhood friend was there and she goes with me to bath. We are laughing and I remember the water splashing as it hit her back as she bent down a little (She is fairly tall) the water was warm, but I don't remember the tactile feeling all that well (I hope this means I did my first TotM!) After that I went down to the lobby and out back behind the hotel where I meet 3 or 5 DC's that like to follow me around like a gang of some sort. It's nighttime outside and there are stars in the sky. It makes me want to fly, but when I try nothing happens. The others start looking at me weird so I stop, there are so many other things to do after all. As we walk through the darkness we come through some weird places. At some point we are walking along side a road and I remember the other TotM which says jog and observe the change in scenery, but at that moment we arrive at a beautiful house. We enter and I sit down by a table. By this time I am aware in my dream that this dream is very long and I am worried it may be hard to remember it all, so I find a piece of paper and a pen and I start writing the beginning of my dream down, but every time I finish a word it turns to doodles, so I stop and we go out into the big beautiful garden. There is water springing from some rocks in the middle of the garden, down into a small lake. In there lives some sort of large sea monsters, as the others look at them I walk to the stone wall surrounding the garden and sit on it. Here I find a bowl filled with some old stuff, including a piece of cake which I eat thinking I will need fuel for my jog (TotM), but in that moment the dream dissolves and I wake up.

    I am so happy I kept at it! It only took me 3 weeks to have my second lucid experience. Hopefully it will be even shorter between the next ones !
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    1. JadeGreen's Avatar
      I was so happy that some of you commented on my first Lucid and DJ entry. You were right it does get frustrating! I was so close multiple times when I first started going for my second lucid dream (also had my first false awakening within that first week, and my first nightmare in a very long time), but it seemed to get harder to keep focus and confidence as time past, it even got harder just to write down my dreams. I had some really good vivid dreams when I did my first wake back to bed's, but they seemed to get more and more fragmented and unsure. Yesterday evening I could feel myself giving up slightly and I didn't even think of dreaming before I went to sleep. In the morning my BF woke up early to go to the university. It woke me up and I went to the bathroom before I went back to bed.
      I think the secret to staying motivated and not lose confidence is to put the joy in the journey rather than the end result. What you want to try to do is rather than making lucid dreams your end result, make them a sort of bonus. Instead try to make it fun to get lucid and practice. Talk to other lucid dreamers about their experiences. Plan fun lucid dreams. Come up with creative reality checks. My personal favorite is to do dream-related artwork. Keep your goal of lucidity in mind, but don't get disheartened if you fail, particularly when you are first starting out. Lucid dreaming is a hobby after all, and it shouldn't become a chore.

      In the end, it sounds like you did a pretty good job becoming lucid here. WBTB has yielded some excellent lucid chains in my experience, and I can see you attempted the totm. Don't forget to post this on the TOTM thread and get your wings. But don't forget to come up with original dream goals too.
    2. GDreamer's Avatar
      This is awesome, this kind of motivation could make all of us lucid in a dream. Its really nice to see somebody having a great succes in LD ing in the beggining, since when I began it was hard as hell and it still is.
      I always do WTBT WILD when I can, I guess I'll be doing WTBT when Its school time.
      Congrats!