Think I had My First DEILD?

[xpin2winx]

To make a long story short, i had a very very weird sequence of dreams last night. Im pretty good at attempting DEILDS and i know one is about to come when i start feeling intense vibrations/auditory hallucinations. So after a couple dreams, i wake up and feel vibrations and fall back asleep. I wake up (in dream) with strange people around me and i quickly start rubbing my hands together for dream stabilization. After that i tell the strange people to "F#ck off" and they start to rapidly reverse age. After that the dream was over. I know for a fact i rubbed my hands together because my dream was blurry when i entered it. Its just i dont know if I was lucid or not. Im a beginner at lucid dreams but it seems like even though when i recognize dream signs or perform reality checks. It still seems like im on autopilot

[makeastar]

If you consciously rubbed your hands together in the dream for stabilization, then, yeah, you were lucid, congrats! Being lucid doesn't always mean having perfect control and/or recall. In my DEILDs, I seem to be able to actually act out in the dream, but not in my DILDs. In DILDs, I'm always on autopilot, as you said. It's weird, because I'm aware that it's a dream, sometimes I even say it out loud, but I seem to just run with whatever was happening before I became aware, without wanting to. Sometimes even when I'm DEILDing everything seems fine, I do my stabilization techniques, check out the scene, do as I please, etc., but as soon as I wake up and think back to it, it just feels like a big non-lucid. As if I can't actually remember consciously doing any of those things in the dream. I believe you were successful. Maybe it was just a matter of the dream not being vivid enough or stable enough that gave you that sense of was I really lucid? Congratulations and happy dreaming, though, I'm sure you've got a lot more LDing to do!

[xpin2winx]

If you consciously rubbed your hands together in the dream for stabilization, then, yeah, you were lucid, congrats! Being lucid doesn't always mean having perfect control and/or recall. In my DEILDs, I seem to be able to actually act out in the dream, but not in my DILDs. In DILDs, I'm always on autopilot, as you said. It's weird, because I'm aware that it's a dream, sometimes I even say it out loud, but I seem to just run with whatever was happening before I became aware, without wanting to. Sometimes even when I'm DEILDing everything seems fine, I do my stabilization techniques, check out the scene, do as I please, etc., but as soon as I wake up and think back to it, it just feels like a big non-lucid. As if I can't actually remember consciously doing any of those things in the dream. I believe you were successful. Maybe it was just a matter of the dream not being vivid enough or stable enough that gave you that sense of was I really lucid? Congratulations and happy dreaming, though, I'm sure you've got a lot more LDing to do! this is exactly what i mean.

[makeastar]

this is exactly what i mean. I'm glad I didn't misinterpret what you wrote. As I said before, though, it seems like you had your DEILD, you just need a little more control over it. My recall is awesome with non-lucids, but with lucids it's always a little blurry around the edges. Might be the excitement. I don't know.

[paigeyemps]

Hmm I believe you were lucid, however I'm afraid it wasn't a DEILD, but a DILD. In DEILDs, once you wake up and go into the dream, there should be no lapse in between. You mentioned that you felt the vibrations and fell back asleep. If you fell asleep even for a moment before you woke up in the dream, then that would count as a DILD since you lost consciousness along the way, whereas in DEILDs you would go from waking state to the dream without losing awareness. But don't fret! This is still a very good job, and it only means you're on your way. Just need to retain that bit of awareness once you wake up Congrats on your lucid!