Thread: What was your first Lucid dream?

My first lucid should've freaked me out more than it did. It truly felt as if my brain was trying to fix itself. Different parts of my brain were being stimulated in what I guessed was an overall enhancement of my neural connections. I highly doubt that it was something that went wrong. After it was finished, I could feel the blood drain down the left side of my head (maybe there's a vein there?) Then visuals started; I saw my parents drag me out of my room, unconscious or maybe worse. I then saw a figure, kind of blurred, straight ahead trying to help me turn my head to the right side which was giving me difficulty for some reason. I figured it was Mom, but she shook her head. I realized it was actually this girl I liked, so I get excited then wake up.

I had about three precursor very odd and scary dreams before this, but none were lucid. It was only when I had this dream when my lucids started coming in droves, daily. I don't have a realization moment that I'm dreaming like most members describe. I either start off knowing it or I just have myself a non-lucid.

That's really freaky I'm glad that wasn't my first! Are you a natural Lucid Dreamer? I'm inclined to think so because of your LD count

My first LD I remember was before I knew what lucid dreaming was. I was at someone's house with my brother. My mom was out of town so we had to stay the night. We shared a bunkbed.

I don't know how I becaame lucid, but I did and people were throwing dog beds at me over and over, and I tried to wake up, but I couldn't. I was yelling in my dream, "Adam! Wake me up!"
But I guess he didn't hear. :/

I assume by natural you mean that I have lucid dreams without using a technique? They did start coming naturally since November 2009, a year after I was diagnosed with bipolar. I was on Seroquel at the time and have switched to Abilify since with no effect on the dreams. If it could be said that I use a method then it would be that the dreams I have are so consistent and vivid that it's hard for me not to notice that I'm dreaming. Can consistency and vividness be considered dream signs?

If by natural you mean I have total control, then it varies. Sometimes it's like me walking a dog while other times it's like a cowboy riding a bull, holding on for dear life.

Yes, I was wondering if you have your LD's without using a method, and it's crazy that you can have these consistently without using a technique. consistency and vividness are definitely dream signs, but I'd still cunt that as natural since you don't really try for a lucid dream; it just happens for you. And about the control, that's not what I was asks, but it makes me curious as to how often you have total control, being a natural lucid dreamer.

As for the dog bed dream, that made me laugh nice

As for the full sandbox effect, I rarely get that. There are only parts of the dream I can change. It's as if my brain goes about creating this vast, fun environment to explore subconsciously while I only get a limited number of tools and changes I can make. I have gotten more control as the years have gone by. My DJ entries give a good idea of the amount of control I can exert.

I actually think I know exactly what you mean, that's exactly how it is for me most of the time, except I don't naturally have them quite that often.

Anyone else? Come on, I wanna read about more than just two people's :3

I dont remember it all that good, but i think i was about the age five or six, i remember being scared from a nightmare at that age and my mom used to told me to shake my head to wake up.

That statement is burned tight in my brain, i had a nightmare a couple of days/weeks later shook my head which made the monster go away but did not wake me up. I suddenly realised i was dreaming.

Did not know what to do with it much so i just wandered around amazed.


I wonder why she told me that, maybe she was a lucid dreamer as well, maybe its something that can be passed on genetically..

i just decided to try lucid dreaming around 4am. (i saw a post on facebook) but i got comfortable, scratched whatever was itchy at the time & settled in. i don't think i actually got to the dream part but what i experienced was amazing. i was just thinking about anything that came to mind. i suddenly got a weird sensation, like i was laying sidways. i got a cold sweat on my legs & arms so i opened my eyes (thinking i had fallen asleep & kicked the blanket off). i tried to look at the clock & i shit you not, i couldn’t move my head. i kinda panicked but remembered that that’s what is supposed to happen!! it was so cool. i couldn’t move ANYTHING. my feet had that tingly ‘just got the circulation flowing’ feeling. absolutely amazing. but i tried again because i squirmed abit when i opened my eyes. i got comfortable again around 4.45. i got the spins again almost immediately. this time it was almost as if i was in a tornado. i calmed myself down & the spins slowed. i liked how it felt though & as soon as i thought it, it started. suddenly it felt like i hit something. it was so abrupt it woke me up. i think i did something wrong. i really want to get to the dreaming part

I had my first LD last night.

In my dream I was trying to find my car but couldn't remember where I had left it. I asked myself how I got to where I was and my mind was literally a blank and I realised I was dreaming. I got so excited I ran over to a brick wall and touched it. It was very clear and real. I got really excited then everything went blurry and my dream continued, I wasn't aware, or had forgotten, that I was dreaming. Boo.

I was 7 or 8. Thanks to my lovely old brother, it was a recurrent nightmare about nightfall and the hour of the vampire: I was always standing on an old bridge in front of a forest, and I remember watching the last beams of sunlight while remembering it was the time when the vampire used to come out from its place. After many failed attempts trying to find a safe place (cannot remember how many dreams I spent just running in slow motion for cover), I reached a point where I realized it was this nightmare again. Then, I just wanted to wake up. The following dreams I spent my time unsuccessfully trying to wake up. The funny part for me was that I even wanted to try what I saw in an episode of Scooby Doo, where Shaggy asks Scooby to poke him with a needle, because of Shaggy did believe they were dreaming something about a monster or so. In my dreams I never found the god damn nail, so I pinched my arms, closed my eyes, thought about waking up, spun around or whatever came to my mind that moment in order to make something different but nothing happened. The last time I dreamed about that, I decided to become the vampire and fight fire with fire...

I had my first lucid dream last night and it was incredible. I was in a military camp of some sort for Asian people and we were in the bathrooms showering and screwing around. After I had finished showering, an officer took me aside and told me a new recruit was coming and I was suppose to watch over him when he arrived. The problem was, the new recruit was a friend of mine from school and he was not Asian. A feeling of awareness was apparent and I was skeptical of everything. Suddenly, I had control over myself in the dream and I stopped the officer right in the middle of his incoherent blabbering and I said, "Wait, wait, wait, I'm dreaming officer!". After saying that, the officer smiled at me and I woke up. The feeling of realizing it was a lucid dream was amazing, hopefully next time I won't wake up right when i realize it is a lucid dream.

I had my first lucid dream (that I can remember) when I was 12 and really into Naruto.
I'd go to sleep every night thinking how the story would go on, and one night I dreamed that Naruto and Sasuke were strolling in the woods and I thought: "holy crap I'm dreaming about Naruto! He and Hinata should totally have sex!"
But wen they started making out behind a tree, i got too emotional and woke up xD

I love how when I started this, two people replied, then I say "anyone else?" and I get six replies before I even have a chance to check back on the thread I think my favorite so far is Box77's, but the one about Naruto was pretty funny

@takeitupanotch: From what you said, it sounds like you were going through Sleep Paralysis. It's not surprising that you didn't accomplish it the first time, but do some reading on it, and watch slash112's videos on some different techniques if you want to try it again ^.^ good luck!

My first lucid was spontaneous. I was not trying anything. I virtually felt that my body was levitating and went outside of my room through a window. I realized at that moment that I was dreaming. The next two or three minustes I was flying over the ocean ( deep blue). I also saw big mountains. I tested my ablility to pass my hands throug a solid rock. Every thing was very nitid.

My first LD was weird, didn't last very long and left me feeling a bit shaken as I had no previous knowledge of Lucid Dreams existence.

I had fallen asleep on the couch with the TV on, I got up and noticed it was off, the light was on but it was a lot clearer than normal and different, heavier, if that makes sense. I turned round and saw myself lying asleep on the couch. I stopped and tried to figure out what was happening. I saw the hall light was on, I wanted to switch it off for some reason and instead of walking there I was through in the hall. I tried to imagine someone coming up the stairs into my living room but it didn't happen, I tried to conjure a few things but it didn't work and then I woke up. Kind of boring.

Later that night I fell asleep again and was on board a space ship on a planed that's surface was covered in a red rock, like the grand canyon. The planet was inhabited with these dark blue skinned creatures that were humanoid in shape (this was a few years before Avatar came out by the way ). I became lucid and for what seemed like 10 mins at a time, I could explore the ship and planet with this other being there who I percieved to be female. I didn't try and have sex with her, she was dark blue and that's not really my thing .

Anyway that was split into 10 min sections the rest of the night, I kept waking up and falling asleep again back into the same dream. I created a whole story in my head at the time, I had to save the planet from someone before returning back to earth. I wish I had kept a dream journal then.

Sweet when was that?

My first LD was really unexpected, like I didn't even want a lucid dream because I was terrified of them at the time. In the dream I was sitting on my futon reading a math textbook and I realized that the words didn't make any sense so I did a finger through the hand reality check. It worked so I became lucid and I immediately got up and walked around, trying to summon someone. I thought something like, "What if something bad happens and like a monster tries to eat me or something?" I was then engulfed by darkness and woke up but it wasn't scary at all, it was a really great feeling. So after that, I recorded all of my dreams and actually tried for them~!

I don't remember much about my first lucid dream. I recall more of the ones since then, where I learned how to change my surroundings by using my sub conscious instead of trying to overpower it. The feeling of having your surroundings change just by thinking of where you want to go is amazing, and that is why I remember those better. Other awesome things have taken place since then as well, but I feel now would be inappropriate to discuss them...

I was walking through a clothing store with my girlfriend in the dream. I don't remember what triggered my lucidity. All at once the racks and people all dropped into the floor leaving me staring out the windows that formed the front of the store. I watched in complete awe as the sky changed from day to night and back again. I then wanted to bring someone into my Dream, but who? As I thought about it a mannequin like object appeared on the floor in the front of the store lying face up. Only there was no face because I hadn't decided whose it was to be yet. I got closer to it and leaned in for a better look. As I tried to picture who I wanted it to be, my subconscious stepped in. It became a person i didnt want it to. Opened their eyes ever so suddenly and lunged at me, waking me up.

As I remember it, my first LD was right after a few hours of reading a ton of DV...true story.

Repeating to myself as I fell asleep: I will just notice, and reality check, then remember, and write it down.

Easy peasey.



So then a bunch of nonsensical stuff starts going on--like dog shows, and riding bikes on the pike, etc--and the turning point was when I stepped out of "a friends house" and onto the front lawn of my high school...

...wait a minute this doesn't fit...

...I'm dreaming.
...I can fucking fly!


And so I did.

"Full" text [here].

My first LD was actually last night
The technique I used was DILD.

Before I became lucid i was standing alone in a room with only counters in it, so I thought it was a kitchen. As I looked around, though, I realized that there were no appliances (no stove, refrigerater, microwave... anything) and it confused me. Instantly I thought well maybe I'm dreaming. So, I did a RC, and it worked, but I think it didn't occur to me that it worked only because I was expecting it not to. So I tried again, only this time paying as much attention to it as i could, and I realized it worked. Of course I was excited, as this was the first one I'd had, so I woke up, but it turned out to be morning anyway so either way I would have had to get up...

The feeling I get from knowing that I've finally had my first LD is absolutely amazing. (I've been practising ADA for around 2 1/2 days, and hoping to find information about LDing that would help... but considering I've only been trying since the 24th... I think I did pretty good ) I absolutely can't wait for my next LD!!

i was at school and my life was completely ruined for sum reason then i jus though this i probably jus a dream then it all hit me that it was just a dream. I ran outside and jumped and i went like 50 feet and came down soo after i woke up. My heart was beating very quickly

Pretty much all I did was jump out of my bedroom window and fly around