Thread: How did everyone first start?

1) How did you first find about about Lucid Dreaming?
I heard about it as a college freshman. Astral Projection was mentioned to me when I was 16, but I did not know much about either phenomenom really.
I did not formally make attempts until mid 2009 though.

2) What were you first thinking when you read something about lucid dreaming.
I just found it interesting, and pondered how far I could really go with it. I mean, on some levels I thought of it as just a leisure activity, but these days I feel that it is not only fun, but can help me become a better person.

3) Which Methods did you try and which one worked?
Wake back to bed is the technique I use the most. I use a lot of audio aids as well. I took a lot of supplements in the past to aid me, but I don't take as many these days.
I had my first experince with Michael Raduga's technique last night, and it worked very smooth. I want to continue working on it. I have tried WILD, DILD, DEILD (Was successful once), CAT, WBTB, and combinations.

4) How long did it take to have your first Lucid Dream and what was it like?

The first time I had a sort of lucid experience in a dream was only a few days after I joined this forum. But it was all of three seconds. I realized I was in a dream, and telekinetically threw a car at someone. but then I phased out.
My first was a few months in. While doing my job on a flight line in a dream, I looked at my hands, and realized I was dreaming. Then I was in a fighter jet flying fast, and having a great time. I'm not even a pilot. lol
I pointed a finger, and buildings fell from the sky. Reminiscent of my time spent in Japan. I ended up having sushi after my flight. Then I was out of the dream. But I woke up tasting salmon and tuna. lol

5) Were you surpised how real the Lucid Dream felt?
Oh yes. I was shocked.

6) Was it easier to have your second lucid dream then having your first?

The difficulty tends to ebb and flow for me. I've had a recent sort of dry spell though. My second one was roughly the same. But others have been easy, hard, etc...

Hey, it was cool.

1) How did you first find about about Lucid Dreaming?
Well I read that at some community that had nothing to do with dreams but in the offtopic, they had a thread were they were talking about their weirdest dreams and someone postet a link to a webside about LD there.. I read that article and was fascinated. I searched on the internet for more information and tried it the next night.. since I didn't have a lot of information and I somehow didn't really believe it coul work, I gave up soon. Until one night ( about 3 months later when I almost had forgotten about lucid dreaming) I had a lucid dream by chance and it felt so stunning that I immediatly ordered Paul Tholey's book on the internet and started to get a real LD enthusiast..

2) What were you first thinking when you read something about lucid dreaming.
I was fascinated but this seemed too great to me so that I couldn't really believe it.

3) Which Methods did you try and which one worked?
My first deliberately induced lucid dream and it worked on the first attempt (when I came back to lucid dreaming). Since that it took about 3 months to manage to get my 2nd WILD.. since that I had a few DILDs, too

4) How long did it take to have your first Lucid Dream and what was it like?
Since I was very motivated and not completely new to lucid dreaming, it worked on the first attempt. I was a really cool thing to experience the sleep paralyses and hypnagogic imaginary, though that lucid dream didn't last longer than a few seconds.
My very first lucid dream (that one that I got by chance) did last longer and was very vivid.

5) Were you surpised how real the Lucid Dream felt?
Yes, though it was more a creepy feeling because I was blind and my body felt heavy like a ton (still sometimes have that problem when attempting WILDs)

6) Was it easier to have your second lucid dream then having your first?
Since my first lucid dream was so easy to have, it was a lot harder to manage to have my second one.. it took me about 2 weeks. But my first LDs were all quite short and not really vivid.

1) How did you first find about about Lucid Dreaming?
I had just watched Inception for the second time, and was thinking about the scene where the city folds on itself and thought, "wow, wouldn't it be cool to control dreams like that?". Google took me where I needed to go.
2) What were you first thinking when you read something about lucid dreaming.
THAT LOOKS SO COOL!
3) Which Methods did you try and which one worked?
DILD and WILD.
DILD of course! WILD has only worked for me once.
4) How long did it take to have your first Lucid Dream and what was it like?
actually, the night after I found out about it.
5) Were you surpised how real the Lucid Dream felt?
YES
6) Was it easier to have your second lucid dream then having your first?
no... unfortunately... by that time I knew too much...