General Questions

[simpsin]

So I had my first LD last night. A few questions: 1. How can you change your setting. I wanted to be a samurai on a battlefield but didn't both trying becasue I couldn't even fly. I stayed at school the entire time. 2. Has a girl every said yes that she would fool around with you and then right before your about to she tells you she wont and leaves. It sucked ... a waste of most of my dream. 3. Mine was a DILD and I remember a lot of some stuff I can't recall. Is that normal? 4. When I lost lucidity it was very sudden. I went from walking around im my dream feeling the same to awake in my bed. Do you usually start to feel somthing change? The only change I could recognize is that at first I felt tingly and pure kinda but towards the end it felt normal, like real life. THANKS!

[queensofthestoneage]

First off, I haven't had any lucid dreams, but I've studied on it a lot...so 1. Well, it was your first one so it's not that likely you'll be in the ''control everything'' situation you obviously seek right off. It takes practice. One technique I read of is having a door somewhere. Or make one appear. Think very intensely about the place/situation/scene you want to go to and think that you WILL go there through that door. It also helps to have the door behind your back, it is harder to make something appear right in front of your very own eyes, in the beginning. Then when you think you will ''of course'' go to that place if you go through that door, just go. Maybe close your eyes, if it would help you make yourself believe in it more. One other technique I've read about is closing your eyes and spinning, and at the same time thinking "When I open my eyes, I will be in **insert place name here**'" and try to imagine the place appearing around you. Maybe make the first view (in this case, your school) fade away. And then try to make the wanted place to fade in. And open your eyes. It is always hard to do something new you haven't done ever before. 2. Uhm. Well, It is your dream. Just don't have any doubts or anything. And you went looking for a bathroom? Why not just make you and her appear in one? Suggestion in things like these is the key. Anything you think would "have to" happen, will. Just think about it hardly enough and don't have doubts. (This is kind of the same thing as the above) 3. I can't really say... sorry. 4. It could of course be that you wake from a sudden sound... Usually people say the dream starts to fade, the dream starts to fade due to the REM period ending or your physical body hearing something or someone disturbing you or something like that. Anything. If you ie.have a cat, and it comes to sleep on your stomache.

[Ev]

First LDs tend to be chaotic, fuzzy and hard to control and recall. Everything in a LD requires a *ritual*. Just thinking " I want to go there" is rarely enough. Ritual can be very simple, but it has to be *something*. LDs are all about expectations, intent, will and focus... if something is missing, your chances of influencing a dream fall dramatically. If you want to travel, try spinning and thinking of a specific destination. Alternatively you can open a portal or a door to the specific destination... Dont close your eyes while spinning, it woke me up several times As for dream sex I've noticed something peculiar - if there are girls that I know in real life, they most often say "no". If it's just a random girl, I can go for it without just asking and they always cooperate The moral is: if a girl says no, go to another room and grab any girl you like As for seemless transition to the waking state - it very often happens to me and it is possible to utilize these rapid awakenings to reenter a dream....