I think I had a lucid dream last night

**Raoshard** · 06-14-2014 06:28 PM

I just remembered something, I was reading some kind of text in my dreams, the paper was torn and old and it had weird letters on it I'm not too sure I could read. When I was holding that piece of paper my vision suddenly started to grow, it went from tunnel vision to almost full, clear vision. And then I thought that this must be a lucid dream and I got very excited. That's all I could remember.
I haven't read a lot about lucid dreams, nor thought about them, it was around 3 months ago when I tried very hard to have a lucid dream.
Was that a lucid dream? I'd be very happy because it would be my first one.
If it was, can you please give me some tips to have another one?

**Jryeme** · 06-20-2014 05:11 AM

If you had the realization that it was in fact, a dream, then yes it was. You don't need to have vividness or control for it to be a lucid dream, just the realization. I might not be the person to give advice since I'm fairly new to this stuff, but I can give it a shot.

First, you need to be on a regular sleep schedule. However many hours it takes you to feel somewhat refreshed and not completely exhausted when you wake up is good goal to shoot for. Then you need to start a Dream Journal. Every morning as soon as you wake up, just lie down and close your eyes, not thinking about what your day will bring but rather the dream(s) you've just experienced. Your recall should improve eventually, to the point where you can write 3+ dreams every morning. This is training your mind to recall your dreams vividly so that when you do have a LD, it's a clear and better experience overall. Now that's all fine and dandy, but how will you ever actually induce one of these lucid dreams? By checking throughout the day and asking yourself questions like, " Is this a dream? Where was I 10 minutes ago? Do my surroundings make sense?" If something doesn't add up, then you'll know its a dream. Pinch your nose and try to breath air through it. Count your fingers. These awareness techniques are called reality checks, meant to confirm or deny the fact that your dreaming. This method is called DILD, by the way (Dream Induced Lucid Dream).
Hopefully this helped, it's my first ever time attempting to help someone else lucid dream, so I might have missed something. There are many techniques to utilize and much to learn! Are you dreaming right now?

**PercyLucid** · 06-20-2014 06:11 AM

I feel that you were almost on the verge but it was not a lucid dream for the following reasons:

1- You got very excited and you actually turned lucid, but you lost lucidity right away as you do not remember what happened next, generally lucid dreams are recalled.
2- It is also common to wake up right after your first lucid dream, due to excitement.

So it sounds that you had a spit second of lucidity, but the entire dream was non lucid pretty much.

Congrats on getting that far though, follow Jryeme's advice and make sure you keep focused on lucid dreaming. You have triggered the switch on with your dream, so it will get a lot easier from this point. Congrats!!