First 2 LDs, help?

[Woodstock]

I've been trying since January 1 of this year, I finally had one. The first was at school a couple weeks ago. I fell asleep in English for probably 2 minutes or less. I had a 10 second dream. I just remember knowing I was dreaming and waking up before I could do anything. The second was last week. I didn't do anything special before sleeping. I haven't done RCs much, I forget about them. I really don't know how this even happened. In the dream, my grandma was trying to give me wine . I said no, it's illegal and sat at the table. Suddenly I realized I was dreaming. I went outside and tried to fly, but I woke up. What can I do next time to stay in the dream longer? I've had a few short ones like the first one I described.

[gab]

Congrats on your first LDs! First ones are usually short, so no worries. But you can read up about dream stabilization techniques. They should help you stay in a dream longer. Also, plan out what you gonna do in a dream, write it down. For first couple of times, I would suggest taking it easy, not doing anything too complicated. Sounds like the dreams you had were DILDs. You can have more of them by practicing technique called MILD. You find all this in DV Wiki. Good luck!

[fOrceez]

Hi there Woodstock, You may have woken up due to a sudden strong experience of emotions such as excitement, or just not being able to focus after becoming lucid. It is important to stay calm as strong emotions can often make the dream unstable. I would recommend stabilising your 5 dream senses (touch, sight, taste, smell, hear) by simply stimulating your dream body. Aswell as this, try and find a certain amount of focus. Focus on what you want to do, but not too much - that would lead to waking up aswell. In your have any other questions, feel free to post again or send me a PM

[Woodstock]

Before I woke up, I was able to make 2 extra fingers grow on my left hand. That probably would have helped if it wasn't the first one I was able to control and I wasn't excited. I know about the different techniques, but nothing has happened yet from trying them. These two just happened randomly, I wasn't even thinking about it. It probably doesn't help that I only sleep 4-5 hours every night... One thing that has helped is writing my dreams. I only did it for a week, but before that I never remembered dreams for more than an hour after waking up. Now I can remember all the dreams I wrote and a lot of them since. One night I remembered 5 dreams. Now it's usually 1 or 2, so maybe I should try that again. Can you go back to past dreams? I'd really like to go back to the dream where I talked to Jimi Hendrix, but lucid this time. That was the best dream I ever remember, until the part at the end when he drowned in a lake..

[fOrceez]

Dreamers have tried it but but we may all get varying results. I wouldn't see why not, our subconscious is awesome ^_^

[Woodstock]

One thing that surprised me is how real everything looks in a dream. When I was in my house in the dream, it looked a lot like my house. Nothing weird. Maybe that's why I have trouble with trying to use RCs. Most of what I remember of my dreams is normal. In the Jimi Hendrix dream, the lyrics of Purple Haze were written all over the buildings and in the sky, and I had a dream that I was growing pot in the snow, but most of my dreams are normal. Am I just boring or is it because I don't get much sleep or what?