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Hi! I'm Taylor and I'm 22. Even before finding out about lucid dreaming, I have always been interested in dreams for as long as I can remember and have always had a certain awareness about the world. I started researching lucid dreaming last summer when I finally joined this site to get more information. The first couple of months I tried, I had great recall. I had tried to WILD one night back in July and had a scary experience with SP. I was shaking violently with a voice saying to me, "Can you really believe in me?" That happened three consecutive times. It scares me just thinking about it. I stopped trying to LD for about a month or two afterwards because of the experience. But then I became determined to try it again, just using other techniques. My recall comes and goes, right now it's not the best I've had. But I am not in school right now so I should have plenty of time to practice. |
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So right now I am awake practicing my WBTB. I actually woke up 30 min before my alarm was suppose to wake me up, but I did wake up from a nightmare. It's personal, but as an overview I literally felt like my life was about to crash down around me. In the dream I remember feeling that intense pressure in my chest when you're very upset/angry. Woke up and did an RC. I'm just glad it was a dream and not real life. |
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So I did recall a dream last night (actually recalled a few, just could only remember one even after I gave myself time to think about it) and it was just that I was at school (a completely different school) but then for whatever reason I had to leave and then make a U-turn to come back. But I had taken a wrong road which put me in complete circles so I had then become lost and frustrated. Thought I was going to be late for a final exam (now I just remembered briefly that I think I did see the time in my dream, but it looked perfectly normal) but I made it on time (because I ended up having much more time than I thought I would). So I walked into my orchestra class and the teacher had asked for old baby photos from each kid and I apparently had a bunch of photos. I remember him displaying one of a child and a dog, but the child wasn't me. And I do remember questioning the photo in my dream for what felt like a couple minutes. I guess that's at least a good start in questioning things in my dream? Cause I questioned the time as well. |
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The vibrations and voices you experienced were HH you get before a lucid dream. You were WILDing. |
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Yes, I am sure I was not lucid because I remember doing a reality check after realizing that I wasn't able to go back to sleep right afterwards like I was trying to. And lately when I've done WBTB, I will stay up for about 30 min. I'm awake enough, but also tired enough to be able to easily go right back to sleep. I did remember 4 dreams last night, though!! Still somewhat odd, and again...wondering why I didn't question further. But I do feel like my recall is now getting better. I think because now I'm putting more of an effort to lucid dreaming when before I was kind of half-assing it but just because I was also dealing with going to school AND working. Now with just work (even though my schedule isn't consistent), I'm able to take a break here and then if I feel I need to but then on my days off (like tomorrow so I'll try WILDing again tonight) I can spend much more time on become lucid. |
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Are you doing any daytime awareness? Just RCs by themselves don't get you lucid. It's the awareness question "wow, am I dreaming" that gets you lucid. Collection...DILD |
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I ALMOST DID IT!! I was so close. I just woke up from a crazy experience. I did a WBTB, waking up at 4:30 and going back to sleep at about 5. I had a dream that it was raining super hard and I was late to work. The time kept changing from 6pm to 8pm in the dream, which I thought was weird, but then settled on around 6pm (as if my dream would catch my noticing or something). But then close to the very end of it is when I realized, "Wait, I'm off today. (Told myself it was a false awakening) I'm dreaming." But then that's when I was kicked out of the dream and my mind threw my body into some crazy vibrations. I kept feeling I was moving around and being lifted up, but then I kept making myself go back down to try to get to sleep. I didn't hear any voices or anything like I was expecting to. I kept imagining myself in a dream scene I was thinking of earlier. But then an idea popped into my head thinking I should enter the dream by trying to come out from under water. I tried that and I did feel as if I was coming up from under the water in an ocean. I felt the waves and tried to imagine the dark blue of the ocean and light blue of the sky. I tried to imagine myself climbing into a boat, but then by then the vibrations had gradually settled down. I held the image in my head until I fell back asleep. I don't remember any dreams after that. |
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Did something change when you said "I'm dreaming?" Did you feel anything? Because that sounds like a lucid. |
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Well my eyes were closed when I felt myself being lifted up, and even when I was feeling that, it was only the top half of my body. So I guess nothing really changed...but it felt so incredibly real... I mean I guess the only change was just the transition between my dream and feeling my body again. And ya know, it almost did feel like I had two different bodies. Just looking back at it now...it still amazes me because I think I was lucid, just never realized why exactly was going because that was the third time I've ever had those vibrations. Would the vibrations/HH continue when I become lucid? What other signs should I look out for? And when you say direct my motion, will it feel as if I'm just normally getting up? I only slept for a few hrs last night so I couldn't recall any dreams, but I'm going to try tonight and go to bed early. |
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First time I felt my body truly separated was when I noticed I'm laying in same position on the bed, only about 12 inches above my sleeping body. I thought to myself "move over carpet" and my body started moving. I said "keep going" and I watched my kitchen appliances and cabinets going by - actually I was floating by in same laying down position. Wall to neighbors apartment was coming up and I wondered how it looks. I knew I was in OBE. Went through wall, trip took longer than it should have had by the thickness of the wall and ended up at some different place. |
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Wow, sorry I haven't posted in a few days! Working a lot and being sick are not a good combination! I've had only very short snippets of dreams, but nothing else that has been crazy. |
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I think most important thing about DILDing is the awareness question you ask yourself during day. "Wow, am I dreaming"? This should really stop you in your tracks and make you believe, that you are in a dream. It would really help, if you at this moment recall some happy event from your life and the happy feeling it gave you in your tummy. This will give the whole thing special meaning. It will tell your mind, that being in a dream and realizing it makes you happy. |
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Like I said, the past couple of days have been crazy for me, but other than that I have actually been doing well with questioning myself! It's weird, though, because there's always one question that, no matter what, will make me question my environment. Well, technically two questions. It's, "Why are we truly here and what really happens after we die?" I am a Christian, but I believe in an afterlife as well. It's almost a scary thought to me. Even as I type this I almost shiver at the thought at what actually happens when we die? Will we just live on as a ghost forever? It's also at this point when I realize how short life really is. Anything can happen to you at any moment. It's a weird feeling. Idk. Going a little off topic, but like I said. Those two questions ALWAYS make me question my environment and I have started to relate them to dreaming, too. |
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I think I may have had my first lucid! |
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Yeah, that was a lucid, allright! Congrats! You need to change your LD count status |
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Wow! Yeah, I am definitely interested! I haven't done as much research on OBE's as I have LDing, but again. Now that I have learned of these things, I am completely obsessed. And honestly, that day before I had a lucid, I swear all I did all day was research lucid dreaming and read people's questions and experiences. Even when I did WBTB, I read about lucid dreaming. It's funny, too, because as I was falling back asleep (I think right before I had the LD), I kept seeing these weird shapes of what looked like skulls and other scary stuff. And I knew that my mind was just on automatic and all I could think of was, "....really? Seriously?" And then they went away and that's when the vibrations started. I remember traveling in a back and forth motion on my bed. I opened my eyes just slightly to see if I was really doing so or not. Sure enough, it looked like I was going back and forth until finally I just rolled out of bed. It was the weirdest feeling. I still can't get over it. Now I feel like I have to have another one very soon to confirm that what I experienced was real. Crazy stuff. I now know what people mean when they say that they weren't fully lucid, just somewhat. Because that's how I felt. It still felt like a dream, but I was still conscious for sure. It just felt so fulfilling to finally have a lucid dream! And I believe it was the perfect dream, too. |
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The skulls - so interesting. I do see skulls and scary faces too, and so does a friend of mine. I wonder why we see skulls? What's up with that? But they are still in the stage when I see things shaped from the swirling fog. I don't see them clearly defined. |
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Wow. Jeez. I need to catch up. Sorry for the absence. |
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That's nice experience. I would say it sounds like OBE, but can't say for sure. Strange how you felt the urge to go back to sleep. |
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I just remember seeing the ceiling in my room and feeling like I was floating several inches above my body with my limbs spread out. Definitely a weird feeling. But I also remember feeling like it was my physical body trying to get rid of the vibrations. I wanted to sleep so badly. When I woke up I was really upset that I completely lost a really good chance at being lucid. |
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Hrm, I would love to be able to draw my dreams. That would be really awesome. There is thread here somewhere, I think ... Ok, found it in Artists corner - draw your dreams. |
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The Gateway to inner self was not working when I tried to download it. I didn't want to say anything because of the little brawl that ensued, but also tried to do some research of my own to no avail. |
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The Gateway to inner self was not working when I tried to download it. I didn't want to say anything because of the little brawl that ensued, but also tried to do some research of my own to no avail. |
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Awesome, I will definitely try that out. |
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