Thread: Is the feeling of coming lucid for the first time something you will never forget?

I was inside an arcade and I saw an old teacher of mine dressed up as a cowboy...I was like wtf is this and did a nose-rc! It worked and I was like hell yeah!!! I then realized that the dream was just like real life so I did another one to make sure just incase I didn't do something stupid in real life.

All in all in was a feeling of wonder, amazement, hypnotizing, and excitement all into one. I can barley even describe it!

Originally Posted by MarineRecon

I was inside an arcade and I saw an old teacher of mine dressed up as a cowboy...I was like wtf is this and did a nose-rc! It worked and I was like hell yeah!!! I then realized that the dream was just like real life so I did another one to make sure just incase I didn't do something stupid in real life.

All in all in was a feeling of wonder, amazement, hypnotizing, and excitement all into one. I can barley even describe it!

That sounds awesome! I have 4 lucid dreams 3 DILDS and 1 WILD, but I haven't got that sensation of awe about how real it seems...I feel as if I haven't broken through to a full high level lucid dream, the ones i had seemed a little hazy to me but it could be due to the fact I didn't stabilize.

That makes me appreciate my dreams a ton more! I was still a newbie so I didn't even know what "stabilizing" was!

I guess as soon as I become lucid I kind've "auto-stabilize" hahaha It still helps to stabilize the normal way too though!

Originally Posted by MarineRecon

That makes me appreciate my dreams a ton more! I was still a newbie so I didn't even know what "stabilizing" was!

I guess as soon as I become lucid I kind've "auto-stabilize" hahaha It still helps to stabilize the normal way too though!

I think what happens to me is I become lucid then after a few seconds I forget that I'm dreaming, I need to keep reminding myself throughout the dream.

That has happend to me many times before! What I do is RC randomly throughout the dream when I'm lucid. It helps stop me from forgetting that I'm dreaming

Originally Posted by TheObserver

Describe the moment and how you felt after it happened as well.

It must not be, because I have forgot. I had no one to teach me at first, and there was no internet then (not publicly) so I did not think to keep a DJ. Oh gods, how many hundreds of LDs I have let slip from my memory! I am not that possesive about them though, if they fade away, many more are coming, so its ok.

I assume it was just a brief one, where I woke up sone after realizing I was dreaming. Darn, a record from that first year would be so cool to have now.

If your first lucid dream is a very low layer, then yes it's pretty forgettable. But I'd guess it pretty memorable when you have your first fully lucid dream

My first lucids when not trying were not very crazy. But I tried to have a lucid and had a really crazy popped up in the matrix dream. It was okay.

A year later I had a random LD that was after a week in the dream world I realized I was dreaming. that one was freaking amazing. Never forget.

DJ entry here. Piqued Interest - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Mine happened during a random DEILD, and anyone who have tried WILDing or DEILDing should know it's a really freaky/amazing/alien feeling to fall asleep in few seconds while conscious. x)

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

My first lucids when not trying were not very crazy. But I tried to have a lucid and had a really crazy popped up in the matrix dream. It was okay.

A year later I had a random LD that was after a week in the dream world I realized I was dreaming. that one was freaking amazing. Never forget.

DJ entry here. Piqued Interest - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

That's so cool! That is what I'm waiting to happen to me, in the meantime I'm just going to keep my dream journal going and focus on improving my recall.

I would recommend recall as much as possible. I am trying to get more and more aware and vividness in my dreams. I am now at a little more than 4 dreams a night and hoping for more. I am lucid in 11% of my dreams, so the more I have, the more I get.

When I have become lucid (3 times), I always seem to forget I'm dreaming eventually and think I'm awake, yet, I have more control.

I was at a party at some relatives house, and I noticed some people who didn't belong. I said "hey, I'm dreaming," did a RC, and started telling all the DCs I was lucid dreaming. It was amazing.


Whoa, just noticed this thread is a year old.

Definitely if you get more than 20 sec be in the dream. I was at my home and just realizing how realistic the dream was it was unforgetable. Then i went to my balcony and flew. Best feeling ever I could not have imagined how real it felt. I felt the scare of height, cold wind on my skin and the feeling of rush. I flew in my first lucid dream over the building and ran on the roofs to get more speed and jumped of the building to get more speed. Everybody should have at least once this type of experience before deciding to stop trying to lucid dream.

I consider my first lucid dream to be a False Awakening I had in October 29, 2011, where I felt very suspicious about my state, then looked at my hands and saw they looked weird, then felt a major rush of excitement and woke up.
It was certainly a life-changing experience, and it boosted my self-confidence in lucid dreaming by a ton.

I am sure the date it happened is a reason why I think snowy winters feel more "dreamlike" than summers nowadays by the way, since it had recently started snowing when I had that first lucid dream.

My first two lucid moments in DILDs were shocking. The first one felt like I was being sucked into a movie: from being a viewer to a participant in the scene and I felt like I was standing there with widely open eyes looking around: and all the DCs (there were a bunch of them) had stopped and were staring at me, it was weird! The second one I was doing something dream-like (couldn't pick up some things I'd dropped) and I thought, "oh, this is one of those times you're supposed to check to see if you're dreaming...!!! HEY, I'M DREAMING!" and I stood up with the "eyes wide open" feeling, in shock and amazement.

Next two DILDs were short, and the moment of awareness was like a smooth slow awakening.

Last DILD was "hey, I guess I'm dreaming!" after I had successfully walked through a wall, also kind of slow buildup of awareness to lucidity.

I will never forget it.
Under the silly preconception to be in a real danger - I wanted out of it and maybe that over-stabilized it.
I was acutely aware to fully exist in an alternate reality - with all my mind and senses in a surrounding seeming "more real than reality" and at the same time I knew for sure, my body was still lying in bed.
But there seemed to be no way, how I could get back to it for a while - until I really managed to force-wake myself - and right into a bad case of SP.
This changed my view of the world and the objectivity of experience in general.
A real epiphany.
I wish I could get back to this point of total immersion soon.
There was only one similarly stable - and in that case fearless and beautiful - LD later on.