Thread: The first few lucid dreams..

I feel like my early days of lucid dream exemplify this... I had no problem getting lucid at all. Once or twice a week. But it didn't do me any good because I was waking up in less than a minute.

LDing is walking a razors edge. You have to be fairly calm and collected, but at the same time you have to be alert and aware. If you're too calm, and too careful, you may simply fall back into a non-lucid dream...or maybe just have a really boring lucid dream. If you're too alert and too excited, and running around flying and blowing stuff up, and twisting the fabric of space and time...you're probably gonna wake up.

Thats a pretty accepted view on it, and seems to hold up for me even now that I've had alot of practice... a far more personal view of my own, is that the dreams naturally have a sort of resistance to being tampered with. I dont know why...maybe it has something to do with the subconscious...but Ive noticed that the more control I exert over my dreams, the less stable they are. Even if I'm calm and collected, if I try to summon an entire Sci-Fi city from a lake right before my eyes, my dream starts to fall apart... But If I just go along with the flow of the dream, and use my dream-control more reactively (rather than willy-nilly) I can get just as excited as I want and have a blast but still not wake up.

So, take the second part with a grain of salt. I dont have any proof, and it could just be some inherent concept that is reinforced simply by my own belief in it...or something deep like that.

It's a misconception that getting excited in earlier lucid dreams will wake you up more than on later lucid dreams. It's all about practice and learning how to focus and stabilize the dream and it's gotta be done at some point. I think the real reason people say this is because in the beginning most dreamers want to have a few minutes of lucid at least to get used to it but if you keep waking up you might start losing hope.
Anyways don't stress about it, I still frequently wake up from forgetting to stabilize but I just go on with it. The way I see it is that if you learn how to do these things now, you won't have to later.

edit: I should add however that I have always been good at dream control because I always analyze my situation at the beginning of the dream, I convinced myself that any action in the dream would take the same amount of effort, so things like moving mountains does not particularly challenge me.

I didn't have any problems in my first few LDs, I simply woke up because I wasn't experienced at being calm, I guess.

I don't think you should limit yourself to what you should / shouldn't do in your lucids.
You can do everything you want, you just need to have the right attitude.
About being over excited- Let me tell you something, everything in lucid dream is exciting, you can even call flying quite basic since it's so common.
You should control your feelings, but it comes with practice, you shouldn't set yourself boundaries.
Cheers,
Harelori