Making great progress ! Thank you DV !

[MisterTrep]

Hi guys, i'd like to share my progress here on DV since I don't have people LDing in my entourage I've been making great progress lately and I need to say thanks to all the people on DV who help all of us new comers. your help is greatly appreciated. That being said, here's what happenned recently. About a month ago I made my first real LD. I gain lucidity while I was mid air, jumping down a stairway. there where about 20 steps in the stair and I was slowly floating my way down all of them.. that's where I said to my self "wait a minute... I'm dreaming! thats it ! I'M DREAMING. I look down the stairs and there is two female silouhette waiting for me but I was so stoked about being lucid that I woke up.. So yeah kinda short.. I had lucidity for about 5 seconds. but still it was my first time and I was very happy about it ! for the next month I made zero progress mainly because I lacked sleep due to working overtime, stress and other occupations.. oh well shit happens.. But last night was THE NIGHT I was dreaming that I was in class.. high school class.. i walk my way towards the front of the class and suddently i'm not in a class anymore i'm in some kind of a ball room.... i'm there in front of a roughly a 300 person audience and I'm picking up a Microphone... that's where I became lucid. I said to my self "Wait a god damn minute ? was I in a high school class a minute ago ? I have not been to school for the past 10 years at least lol... and how the heck I arrived in this Ball room with all these people I don't know ?!" That's where I knew for sure I was dreaming... I was calm because the transistion from dreaming to lucid dreaming was way smoother than when it occured mid air Man it was awesome.. I tell you, it's like I was dreaming in FULL HD lol... I was looking around the ball room it was so vivid, textures and colors so real.. I was thinking how powerfull the brain can be to simulate this realism and I even took the time to think "no wonder why I have such a hard time detecting my dreams most of the time, that shit look so real !!!" So yeah, at that point I was standing, microphone in my hand, in front of 300 people waiting for me to say something... So my first reflex was to entertain these people, I started saying one or two jokes. it was okay I guess, few people laughed.. but you know, it wasnt that good of a reaction lol.. Once again I was thinking "wait a minute, I'm dreaming... If I want to, they should react the way I wan't." so I said something that I knew wasnt funny at all, something that doesnt make any sens. but deep down inside I wanted them to react louder and have more fun ! it was a test so I said "a Carrot and toothpicks" and the whole room exploded in laughter ! it was loud and once again I noticed how even the sounds are rendered so perfectly by the brain ! that's when I woke up ! I was so happy because I had some kind of control over my dream, and it was my second LD ever ! I know I should have done some stabilisation techniques but I was so excited that I totally forgot.. I woke in some kind of SP residue, and it made my day right there ! during the day I was recalling what happenned, and at some point I was kinda sad that I did not try to do crazy stuff like most people do the first time they are LDing... I could have fly like superman, or throw fireballs in the audience lol.. but I like to stay positive and think that I not only had control over my dream, I had control over 300 dream characters at the same time ! that's a huge leap for me !!! thank you DV ! and I probably made a few grammar and spelling mistakes, I apologize, You will understand english is not my main language

[mooseantlers]

Take it on step at a time, what you did was perfect, you cant start out with the crazy stuff, ease into it. Thats how most experts i know achieve it. I am not an expert and im going to ease, in, its going to help. And as proof it helped for you too, nothing to complicated and look, it was vivid sustained. Good luck in pressing LDS

[Sugabombs]

Congrats! That sounds really cool. I've heard that becoming Lucid can shock you because the world sometimes feels more real than reality!