Thread: My First Sustained Lucid

Although there have been many times throughout my life that i've been in a dream and realized I was dreaming, I would always instantly wake up. It was only until I heard about lucid dreaming about a month ago that I learned that it was possible not to wake up. After about three weeks of dream journaling, I had a lucid moment, and used the spinning technique, and it worked exactly as advertised. After I realized I was having a stable lucid dream, I began running around frantically like a little kid. One interesting thing was that my level of lucidity seemed to be varying greatly, and I had to continue doing reality checks to keep myself fully aware.

After a couple minutes, I was in a room with a swimming pool, thinking to myself "This seems so vivid, what if this is real? I don't want to do anything that would embarrass myself." So I decided to do a physics-based reality check. I picked up a rag that was conveniently on the floor, and simply held it. It suddenly yanked itself upward, as if it was trying to pull me into the air. (Later I plan to use this technique to fly).

Anyways, the dream only lasted for a couple of minutes, because I woke up from excitement. The weird thing was, I was surprised at how I remembered the dream just as badly as any other somewhat vivid dream.

This was a four days ago. For some reason, the last three nights I haven't had much desire to remember my dreams or write them down, so I'm posting this partly to help get my mind focused on dreaming.