Thread: First Lucid Dream

Hello everyone,
I'm new here, and I created an account here just to find someone that can solve my problem.

So I had my first lucid dream some days ago, it is really awesome, but that's not what I want to talk about.
I had the lucid dream in a strange way.
I woke up after 3 hours of sleep, then without moving I tried to fall asleep again, but keeping focused on Lucid dreams. (I kept counting to myself: 1, I will have a lucid dream. 2, I will have a lucid dream, 3, etc.). Then after reaching the 150th "I will have a lucid dream", I find myself saying the 151st, inside the dream.
Like I instantly fell asleep, and that's how I gained lucidity.

I've been doing some research and couldn't find a lucid dreaming method that's somewhat similar to this one. And yes, when I woke up for breakfast I remembered the dream and remembered my failed attempt to fly.

I'd appreciate some help...

Regards,
GAF

This sounds like a form of the DEILD method. Keeping still after waking up in the middle of a REM period will result in you transitioning into a dream extremely quickly. Except with this method you kept your focus on your thoughts while transitioning into a dream, which is likely why you didn't feel sleep paralysis or Hypnogogia. Also, ever heard of the FILD method? The FILD method uses the same concept, except it uses moving your fingers as a focus point. Congrats on your first lucid

jblb2424 you beat me to it , i agree with what you said,it does sound like a deild after all.

Haha, i always win xD

But I didn't wake up naturally, i woke up with my cellphone alarm. And I had to move my arm a little bit to shut it down. That's why it's strange, it does look like a DEILD but in a DEILD I'd stay in my bed without even moving, and without entering sleep paralysis.

You don't have to wake up naturally in order to do a DEILD. In fact, it might be better to wake up with an alarm, especially in the morning since it will likely wake you up in the middle of REM sleep, where most vivd dream occur. Also, you can still accomplish a DEILD even when you move an arm or leg or whatever, but it can't be too much movement. Finally, you do not need to be in sleep paralysis in order to do a DEILD. In fact, most people don't experience sleep paralysis during a DEILD. If they do, it would only last a few seconds. Good luck!

Originally Posted by jblb2424

You don't have to wake up naturally in order to do a DEILD. In fact, it might be better to wake up with an alarm, especially in the morning since it will likely wake you up in the middle of REM sleep, where most vivd dream occur. Also, you can still accomplish a DEILD even when you move an arm or leg or whatever, but it can't be too much movement. Finally, you do not need to be in sleep paralysis in order to do a DEILD. In fact, most people don't experience sleep paralysis during a DEILD. If they do, it would only last a few seconds. Good luck!

yes sometime i didnt gain experience of paralysis sleep, and when got lucid, and finish, and then awake, i felt normal, no any heavy weight etc, and yes Alarm is a good tool for us, i am using it always.

and also doing DEILD when i using the alarm and snooze it every 8mint(lazy person, love to sleeppp) and really at 6th or 7th time snooze i feel it clearly, and then the alarm goes off, and lucid start,, but have problem of short lucidity ...

Hope you have any trick or formula,
Would be much Appreciate

Thanks

I remember one time trying to lie still and LD, and kept saying I wanted to stay lucid. I was still wishing that while climbing an ice ridge probably in Antarctica, and it took a few seconds to stop my mantra and say 'wait... I am looking at an icy plain... I guess I AM lucid dreaming!' It was such a seamless transition I didnt even realize I was in the dream for a few seconds.

Congratulations on your LD GAF, glad to see some portuguese people around
Not sure if what you experienced could be called a DEILD but it definitly is some form of WILD. Anyway, if that works for you just stick with it.
If you have anything you wanna ask, just PM.

Well thanks everyone for the replies and sorry for not replying for so long.