First LD (That's over 5 seconds)!

**ShinyBlueStar** · 03-12-2012 08:39 PM

The time has finally come, I've finally had a LD that didn't end the second I realised I was dreaming! :bravo:

I was playing a video game (in my dreams when I 'play' the video games I never actually dream myself and a screen, I dream the game only as if I am the character, maybe a point of discussion later). The level was in a small part of a city and it was deserted.I had just defeated a boss.

I thought to myself 'I want to play that level again' so I 'started' the level again and beat the boss, after that I was waiting for the score screen to come up (more or less expecting that to happen even though I was not looking at a screen, I was actually the character myself).

I started to glide while waiting for the score screen. While gliding I thought I'd try to change the direction that I'm gliding by pushing myself against a wall. I started gliding higher and higher. Then, as I was floating back downwards, I somehow realised I was dreaming. I don't actually remember how or what caused my to realise it, I just realised I was dreaming. I thought to myself with joy 'finally I have realised I am dreaming'. I can't describe the feeling of 'transferring' my senses to a dream body, it felt great.

After a minute or so while gliding down, I began to lose lucidity. I remembered how rubbing my hands together could stabilise the dream. But that wasn't working. So then I remembered how touching the dreamscape would also have the same effect, so I was rubbing my hands on the wall in front of me (I'm laughing to myself as I'm reading that last sentence to myself

), but I was still losing lucidity. Then I thought 'I could shout lucidity', but I was afraid that I was shout that IRL

My dream didn't turn back into a normal dream, it felt like it was turning more into a daydream... I was still aware that it wasn't a dream, but I didn't have control over my dream self and it didn't feel like a dream any more, I can't quite explain it. I think I may have been half awake then.

Anyway, I thought I would like to share this as this was my first 'proper' experience. Sorry if this is just a wall of text! One thing is bugging me though, in all my very short LDs and this LD I realised I was dreaming by chance, not due to reality checks or dream signs. How many of you have just realised you're dreaming without RCs and dreamsigns?

**Hukif** · 03-12-2012 08:57 PM

Oh cool experience. And most people realize without the RCs actually, the RC is just to enhance awareness and to confirm it is a dream.
Think I am one of the exceptions, since I need to do the RC in order to become lucid, but yeah what you have is the common.

**Robot_Butler** · 03-13-2012 12:47 AM

Wow, congratulations. Good job trying to stabilize the dream. Sometimes it is just time for the dream to come to an end, and nothing we do can prevent it.

**ShinyBlueStar** · 03-17-2012 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Wow, congratulations. Good job trying to stabilize the dream. Sometimes it is just time for the dream to come to an end, and nothing we do can prevent it.

I was surprised because it was a while (at least a year) since I read about stabalizing. It's amaizing how the mind remembers things from a very long time ago. My next goal is to intentionally have a LD rather than having one by chance