Am I doing something wrong?

[Ninjaa]

I've had about 3 lucids and 1 dream that I wasn't sure 100% if it was a lucid. But in any of them, I haven't done anything fun. Like you hear people on these forums having there first lucid dream and they fly and do crazy stuff but I just don't have a chance to do it in my lucid dreams for some reason, for example, heres the dream I had yesterday it was a lucid dream and the most vivid one i've had: I was laying in my bed in my dream and it seemed like I had just awoken, I looked at the time on my phone and I noticed it was going up in hours. I immediatly knew I was lucid, I wasn't excited and I had a colored sort of vision until I looked at my hands and counted them, I done a nose pinch and it worked. I looked at my hands and said stabilize lucidity now and my voice came out weird, I then said anchoring in lucidity, I said it again but with more emotion. I thought to maybe jump out the window in style but I got worried just incase I wasn't lucid, I immediatly got up from my bed and walked downstairs, i read a thread on dreamviews yesterday about there being a storyline in my dream so while I was walking downstairs and while I was walking down the stairs I was expecting something to happen for a storyline. I opened the door and walked out, I saw somebody from my school and I asked him were he was going, he said on the economics trip, I thought wtf and done a nose pinch and it failed my nose was blocked.. I paniced and tried to get home as soon as possible to see my mum and dad greeting me as I walked in in shock that they thought I might have gone missing. I thought to my self im not going to try to lucid dream again in the dream. Now I never knew that a nose pinch rc could fail, or I never heard about it failing for everyone, but either my dream recall is deceiving me or it actually did happen, my question is, did I lose lucidity or was I lucid the whole time? Because my plan was as soon as I went lucid in that dream was to go outside and try to fly, but it didn't work out how I planned. Is it because I don't feel confident in my lucid dreams, as I always think about what if it wasn't a dream and if i may be decieving myself. Any advice would be appreciated.

[Sivason]

It sounds like you are doing great. Anyone who says they got straight to dream control in the first few LDs, is either oddly lucky, or making it up. Good for them. You sound right on track, give it time. I think you were lucid, and then mostly lost it, slipping into a semi-lucid. If I were you, until you get really good at LDs, I would keep saying this is a dream, every few seconds. Try to do fun things, but keep a serious focus on it being a dream, and never let the focus slip. It was a nice long LD with good details, considering you have had so few. Thumbs up, and keep going! Good job!

[Ninjaa]

Thanks for that, i'll make sure to do that when I get my next lucid.

[hermine_hesse]

Now I never knew that a nose pinch rc could fail, or I never heard about it failing for everyone, but either my dream recall is deceiving me or it actually did happen, my question is, did I lose lucidity or was I lucid the whole time? Because my plan was as soon as I went lucid in that dream was to go outside and try to fly, but it didn't work out how I planned. Is it because I don't feel confident in my lucid dreams, as I always think about what if it wasn't a dream and if i may be decieving myself. Any advice would be appreciated. RC's can definitely fail. Most RC's don't work for me at all. Usually, I will just have an "Aha" moment and know it is a dream. The nose pinch RC has never worked for me and actually caused me to lose lucidity sometimes. Also, I find going along with a storyline that the dream provides me with causes me to lose lucidity. If I become lucid in the middle of a storyline, the first thing I do is walk away from it. However, these kinds of things are different for everyone. Don't rely too heavily on other's experience, just experiment in your dreams and find what works for you. If the first dream skill you want to try out is flying (which is a great place to start - both fun and useful) you can incubate this. Throughout the day, notice what it feels like just standing with your feet on the ground, then close your eyes and imagine what it would feel like to be able to just float up and soar around. When you are falling asleep, state your intention to yourself to fly in your dream. Don't get discouraged if this takes you a while to achieve. The first time I actively incubated a new dream skill, I was having two LDs a week and incubating the skill every night, but it still took me over a month to accomplish! So far, it sounds like your doing great. Many people get so excited with their first LDs that they wake up after a few seconds.

[Ninjaa]

Thanks for that advice. I was just wondering because the nose pinch rc had always worked in my dreams when I done it, so what must of happened in my dream is when I done the nose pinch rc and it failed I must of lost lucidity, thats a shame really