Thread: I Had My First Lucid Dreaming Experience Last Night. Am I now Lucid????????PLEASE ANSWER!

Firstly, congrats on your first lucid dream! It is always an exciting experience, and it is great that your first was so vivid! Often people's first's are sorta muddy. To me it looks like you were trying too hard to have a lucid dream, so when you gave up your brain wen't, "Ok finally! Time to relax and have a lucid." This is also how I had my first lucid dream.

As a note for you being "partial lucid," note that lucidity has nothing to do with controlling your dream. You can be completely lucid but have no control. It just usually comes easier when lucid, but the two aren't actually part of the same term. "Partially Lucid" is in fact meaning that you are only semi aware of the dream state. For example, you may 'know' that you are dreaming, and that you are asleep, but you may not realize that other people aren't real and you might think you can still be physically injured. Always a weird experience, that.

As for your question. I would say, yes mostly. Though not with just lucids, but every dream and even real-life memories. They seem to fade over time and become less realistic in our heads. Just how our brain works, I suppose. However, if you write it down in a dream journal with great detail, you can come back to it and read through and that acts almost like re-living through it and can greatly boost how real you remember it. This is one of many reasons to keep a dream journal.

Oh yeah, it might be possible that this first lucid may spur on more, but generally one lucid doesn't transform you into a natural. Just keep it relaxed and see if you have more. If you don't, then go back to trying more techniques. However, always make sure to keep a dream journal.

Good luck.

Sorry I guess I really wasn't clear enough. I really didn't exactly ask in my question.

But my biggest question was that, is it usually easier to lucid dream(controlling your dream) after the first time. Because I've read places, its always a lot easier to try and lucid dream after you have your first one.