Thread: What should you do in your first LD?

I never had a real, complete LD before, but I want to ask a question.

What should you do first in your very, very first LD that you managed to stabilize?
Should you walk around first or go on trying flashy powers?

Whatever feels right! I walked around admiring how realistic and beautiful everything was, went to Hogwarts, talked to Weasley twins and flew over the mountains

That's alot more than I did, I managed to float around my backyard...

Well you'll probably get very excited so I recommend not doing anything extreme like teleporting or other big changes to the environment, and to remember to keep stabilizing as often as necessary.

If you want it to last - just walk around. That is suprisingly amazing.

My first few attempts, I tried teleporting, flying, chainging the dream scene - all resulting in me waking up because I was too excited. But my first, stabilised LD, I just walked, and it was amazing (dinosaurs, huge valley etc. ) Haha

Observe the environment closely. Walk around and marvel at it. To be honest I personally focused on doing cool things like flying or slinging webs, jumping off buildings or teleporting, but none of those things stuck with me more than seeing my own reflection in roof tiles. The dream scape has a unique feel and atmosphere that if you focus on, you will really appreciate. Also if you don't really take the time to stabilize your dream will end earlier than you'd like. Sex is also kind of tricky for me in lucids (it tends to go wrong in very nasty ways) so I tend to leave that until I'm quite comfortable with the dream scape and my own control.

Originally Posted by JesterKK

.. none of those things stuck with me more than seeing my own reflection in roof tiles.

Reflections! I've never even thought of that.. Definitely onmy to-do list now.
and yes, you're right about the "feel" of the dreamscape, the atmosphere - most definitely something to just marvel at.

Short answer: whatever you want. But, in your first full-fledged lucid, you might not want to focus more on staying in the dream and less on dream control (using powers such as teleporting, flight, etc). As the others before me noted, you might want to simply walk around. Your first obstacle after having a full-fledged lucid is to, well, maintain your focus and not get too distracted. As you have more and more full-fledged lucids, this will become easier, and you will likely be able to use powers and not get distracted (thus losing lucidity) or overly excited (thus waking up or having a false awakening).

The first thing I would do, even after many lucid dreams, when I can I always give thanks and show that I'm grateful for being a part of that world. I appreciate what I've been given and from there on I like to ask questions and get answers to any questions I might not be able to answer in real life. For me being in the Dream World is not just about taking but also about giving and showing appreciation.

Just walk around and enjoy it. Don't try anything to difficult until you get fairly good at stabilizing your dream. You could also try out ways of recognizing when you're dreaming - what does it feel like when you rub your hands together? Does it feel the same as when you're awake? What does food taste like? What happens when you try to read? For example, I noticed that the texture of things in my dreams are rather exaggerated - e.g., I can feel the little ridges on my hands when I rub them together. So, when I do my reality checks, one of the things I do is rub my hands together and ask myself if they feel like my "waking" hands or my "dream" hands. It doesn't always help me catch when I'm dreaming, but it does keep from losing lucidity once I've got it.

In my first Induced LD, I just remained passively aware of the fact that I was dreaming, letting the story of the dream unfold and just go along with it. All the while "this isn't real" was in the back of my head. When something whacky happened and I tried to teleport out of there, I did - into the real world (I woke up )..

So yeah, don't do a lot is my advice.. I instinctively did nothing but follow the dream plot as part of it, but not controlled by it.

Stabilize, look around, walk around. From time to time, do some RCs. You should experience doing them with the result of dreaming a few times.

Explore. Go see all the amazing things the dream has to offer you. Keep a curious and open state of mind.

fly \o/