My first aware Lucid dream, or just a regular dream about LC?

**serialdreamer** · 07-26-2014 04:17 PM

First of all, sorry for the the Headliner, i was kind of hasty when writing it so it got pretty weird!

I had a couple of lucid dreams in my life, but naturally ones that i havent tried to get and not with the effects i had this morning and as far as i remember i always had easy for remembering dreams.

A while ago i started to read about dreams in general. I done some practing for LD, alot of reality checks and so on.
I started trying LD for real 2 nights ago, the first night i didnt went lucid but i woke up pretty early from a dream(since i regulary go to sleep 2-4 am and sleep late into the day because i dont have any work right now) and i managed to keep my eyes close when i woke up and did som practices and it resultet in vibrations, and colorfull hallucinations but since im visiting my grandparents right now in my homecountry i was disturb of them going rampage in the kitchen and it all stopped and i didnt manage to get into it again.

yesterday i remembered myself alot about that i should ask my self if im dreaming when i start dreaming and also i did a long newfound personal mantra before going to sleep.I fell to sleep much easier then i usally do and i first had two regular dreams, one that was kind of odd, and the second one a pretty bad nightmare.
I woke up sometime around 7 am and went to the bathroom and straight back to the bed and reminded me of the usual stuff and fell a sleep about 15-30 minutes later.

This time i had a very short dream and here it begins, after that short dream it was like i woke up in the bed and room i stay in here at my grandparents but i had a strange feeling and soon i noticed that when i closed my eyelidt i still could see everything in the room(this happend several times at diffrent moments troughout the morning), it was really no diffrent from keeping your eyes open. I asked if i was dreaming(in my head) and as i "closed" my eyes again i was back in the place where my last very short dream took place and also i quite quickly said and asked myself "my body is asleep but my mind is awake" and "Am i dreaming?" and a person came up to me, we start talking, and i asked a question(Dont want to say what, it was a kind of erotic at the end of this experience lol) and noticed that the person answered exactly what i wanted to hear. I was thinking like "okey, this must be the real stuff" and i start to see if i could do to this to other people at that location and realized that i could control alot of other persons approches, if they was supposed to approache me or not, what subject they would toward the discussion to, and their answers for my questions. This contineud for a quite long while, later on i got the feeling i was loosing control so again i said "My body is asleep but my mind is awake" and "am i dreaming?" and immediately felt that i was back in control again and managed to get a crowd of people who stopped nearby me to just vanish into nowhere because i didnt want them there at that moment.

I also realized that i could tweak/reshape my body the way i wanted i wanted, nothing surreal but natural things such as the shape of my body and so on. I should add, i could only control the things mentioned, i didnt really try or think about trying to control other objects and the enviroment around me.Maybe because i didnt feel the need for it or simply because i had my attention only on what i just discovered.

I woke up 1.40 pm and opened my eyes, everything seemed normal except some very strange emotional feelings and feeling very happy inside and asking myself if i was dreaming without result and i wanted to go back so much so i tried the usual routine but without result except from feeling very relaxed and some very small vibrations in my arm in the beginning but after a while that too was gone so i just got up from the bed for some breakfeast with a very big smile

the thing is, when you read about LD, it´s seems to take so much time and training for most of the people, some(including some friends of mine)never getting any result at all. But for me? 2 nights of trying! I cant really believe it actually, can someone who earlier in their life had some natural LC´s and have a natural ability for rememberring it dreams in details have so much easier for getting a LD? I´m almost wondering if i infact was dreaming about LD and not really had a real one because i´ve been thinking so much about it and doing my routines.

Is it even possible to dream about a LD that isnt really a LD?

To be honest i dont really care, im anyway so happy for what happend to me this morning but still im so confused of what really happend so i would be so happy for some answers !

**Wolfdog** · 07-26-2014 09:02 PM

Congratulations on your first induced lucid dream! A lot of factors influence whether one achieves lucidity in a dream early in practice or later in time. Some people worry too much about motivation, some people have doubts, others feel it is something difficult to attain, and so on and so forth. It's all the mental approach you take towards lucid dreaming, as well as the practice that you do. Ultimately, some people 'get it' easier and faster than others, and so these people achieve lucidity very fast. Having spontaneous or natural lucid dreams at a young age also helps in accelerating the progress needed to attain lucidity. That experience makes it easy for the mind to tune in into a lucid state, and thus it becomes easier to induce another lucid dream.

It is possible to dream about lucid dreaming, in fact, it's very common! Basically, the mind slowly starts getting the idea behind lucid dreaming, and so it makes its way into our dreams, because the mind is focused on it, whether by practice or constantly thinking about lucidity when one's awake. It's a reflection of our practice, and lets us know how close we are of achieving an actual lucid dreaming experience. It's still important to know the difference between dreaming about being lucid in a dream, and actually achieving lucidity in a dream. A lucid dream is a dream in which one is aware that he/she is dreaming. It requires awareness. Dreaming about being lucid in a dream is a whole different thing. You might be doing all sorts of things the way people normally go about doing when lucid, but all that might still be part of the dream's plot, and you're not aware that you're dreaming.

The difference lies in awareness. Ask yourself: Was I aware that I was dreaming while in the dream? If the answer is yes, then, my friend, you have achieved a lucid dream.

**serialdreamer** · 07-27-2014 02:04 PM

Thank you for your answer, and yes i was very aware that i was dreaming!
And this morning gave first a failure of what i would believe was try to do a mix of WBTB and WILD but after i got SP and got hallucinations i lost focus because outside noises and feeling ill because alot saliva was gathering in my mouth and went to sleep the normal way and had a dream in one of the places ive been thinking about when trying to induce earlier but i missed a obvious dream sign.

However i managed to do a dild now in the afternoon that gave a LD for about 15-20 minutes and i think i was awaken by outside noises several times but managed to get back to where i got out trough the use of flimmer and pattern in my closed eyes and alot of focus on goibg back to where i was.

Next is getting better dream control this time because i didnt do what i really wanted, i only managed to change the kind of motorcycle i was riding while driving it and moving away each person in the place i was in(a central station) before i once again started having sex with a girl i picked out of the crowds.

I read its usual,specially for men to have alot of those LD`s but every time it started getting extremely nice i got trown out and had to get back. And the reason i started practice this was to explore the world in my mind and do other stuff than naughty stuff.

But yeah, i guess i only can get better at this and will get more control after a while!