My First Real Lucid Dream

**Awegner** · 06-29-2011 11:41 AM

Alright guys, since the last couple of days have been school holidays my friends and I usualy stay up and do all nighters, but since school is coming back I have been trying to go to bed normaly. Being the stupid person I was I decided to go to bed at 9:30 pm after usualy going to bed at 9:30 am. So anyway, I slept until about 11:00 pm and decided to get a glass of milk and watch tv. After this I could'nt get to sleep, so I played TF2 until about 1:30 am and headed off to bed.

After sleeping about 2 hours my body was being stuborn, not letting me get back to bed I layed still for a while and ran some thoughts about me being able to control the worlds ect. Then my neck started hurting and flexing, a screech, like a high frequency tone entered my ears and I began to feel... weird, but good.

Suddenly I was talking to a school friend, just the usual and then I remembered what had happened, I talked to her and then sort of looked up and I was in a large white corridor with alot of computers. So I somehow decided that I was just normaly dreaming and tried to imagine a door (To enter the lucid dream). Then everything went black and a pulsating door with colours, appeared, totaly black but the edges and indents were coloured.

I then concluded that I could manipulate so I dont need to get "Into" the dream, anymore. So with that in mind I imagined a beach, I kept saying beach to myself until, I could hear waves. Then a small stroke brushed down (A wave) with the same colours against a black background.

And then, I woke.

I used to have a dream journal but I quit a while ago, this has sort of re-kindled my interest in the lucid dreaming subject. So if anyone has any tips or suggestions that would be much appreciated.

TLDR: First lucid with one detailed thing and some random coloured crap. First time being lucid.

ALSO After about an hour of just sitting there realising what happened I began to see squigily lines and colours/shapes when I closed my eyes. Some of witch include a very detailed picture of a man riding a bike outside of a house, whenever I blinked it showed up against the white wall I was facing in 6.5/10 detail.

**Caretaker** · 06-29-2011 11:53 AM

First off, congratulations! I'm sure you know that the part where you heard screeching was from being in SP. Don't worry about the length of the dream. Nearly everyone has very little control over their first Lucid and wake up pretty quickly. You did manage to start changing the scenery to a beach. However, I think you made a big mistake when you closed your eyes. I've read that you should never close your dream eyes. I think it's because it makes you more aware of your physical body and causes you to wake up.

Check out Yoshi's ADA technique along with the dream control section of the forums. There's a lot of great content that you can pretty much pour over for hours on end. Good luck to you and your dreaming!