How YOU attained Lucidity through MILD

Everyone please explain their first mild lucid dream, how they did it, any tips, and the dream itself. Please keep your dreams appropriate!

first was un-intentional and came after about 2 weeks of daily vipassana meditation. I was on an alien planet being escorted by a half dozen blue aliens similar to those in the movie "Avatar". I just snapped out of it and everything became very vivid and clear, just like I was awake and was teleported to another planet. This was my first lucid ever and I didn't even know it was possible, so it was jaw dropping to find myself inside a dream. I kept walking along with them, and one looked over and I got the impression from his facial expression he was thinking "oh, he figured it out". The landscape was similar to what you'd find out in Arizona or someplace, red rock, desert.

We were walking up a rock hill about 150 yards wide, with 100 foot tall boulders lining it so you couldn't see past them. Right before we crested the hill I wondered to myself "I wonder whats on the other side?" after that crossed my mind, for whatever reason the palace from the move "Alladin" came to mind (I'm 24 so its not exactly a current movie, lol). As we crested the hill lo and behold, a absolutely massive sprawling city underneath me, with multiple huge towers like the ones found in Alladin (white circular pillars with gold dome on top). The sun (or whatever was providing light) was low in the sky and casting the whole thing is such a surreal light, it was breathtaking. I started losing lucidity soon after this, and dropped back into non lucidity and remember being chased around indoors and hiding out, I'm assuming from my blue alien buddies.

I can't exactly remember the first MILD i had since I didn't categorize them when I first started, but this was one of my earliest MILDs.

I had been keeping up with my dream journal, questioning if I'm dreaming throughout the day, and at night I did my mantras.

The dream was quite short:

I was walking around inside a mall and I suddenly got the idea to stop and look around. The mantra I used before bed usually (during my early lucid dreaming days) was "Look around, it's a dream." so I just had that thought pop up and I stopped and stared at my surroundings and the colors were weird and distorted, like there was too much green and blue. I suddenly got lucid, proceeded to fly for a bit before losing lucidity.

I love MILD! Here are some tips that might help:

•Don't wait until you're too tired and sleepy to go to bed. Go to bed about 30 minutes earlier and just lay and do your mantras or recall your goals or visualize what you want. When you feel like sleepiness is taking over, do you mantras until you fall asleep. Don't try to stay up just to keep doing your mantras. The point in MILD is to fall asleep with your mantras as the last thing on your mind.

•Choose a short and meaningful mantra, something that reminds you clearly what you want to remember. It would probably be better to use a command as a mantra, like "do a reality check!" or something with some kind of strong emotion associated with it so it will be more powerful sort of, like "IT'S A DREAM!!" rather than "i'm dreaming".

•Don't be frustrated if the mantras doesn't work right away. Remember the mantra is just an aid, and it is not a magic potion that guarantees a lucid. It will take some time to get used to your mantra and to really let it bleed into your subconscious.

•Don't change mantras too often.

•When you get lucid, do mantras as well to help you stay grounded in your lucid mindset.

Hope this helps. Good luck! You can do it :)