What happened?

[Andey]

Hey people, first time poster here! Basically I just started trying to get one of these things called a lucid dream, you guys may have heard of them.... I have been trying for 5 days now, doing a variety of things like ADA, RC's as well as WILDS's and MILD's and keeping a journal. Anyway i havent had to much success, the first night i tried WILD i got the body vibrations but nothing else, the other nights haven't gone as well! Anyway last night I just went to bed without an alarm (I wanted to see if i naturally woke up at all). In the morning someone woke me up, which kind of messed with my dream recall, but when I laid there and really thought I had the faintest recollection of performing a few RC's and me running away from a mirror all excited. Is it possible I had my first LD but forgot it? My other thought was that I just made up this recall? But i am not sure as these successful RC's were different to how I Imagined successful RC's would be, which makes me think I didnt make them up? Basically to sum up a ramble, i have a few questions for you guys! -Is it possible to have a LD and not really remember it? -Do you always wake up at the end of a LD (I ask this as if I had woken up after a LD, however successful, I would have wrote it in my DJ) -Do LD's ever transition into normal dreams? I have many more, but I could probably fill a book with questions, so I will leave it there hah! Thanks in advance!

[BenHull]

So I haven't had a Lucid Dream yet, I can't really talk, but I know what gave me a normal dream mixed with a little Lucidity so here goes: Try Wake Back to Bed. Try thinking "I lucid dream tonight." Remember not to use the 'will' word because it means in your brain any time in the future! Try eating a few slices of cheese before bed as well. It contains useful stuff.

[Zyangur]

Welcome to dream views 1. Yes it is possible to have a LD and forget it. A lucid dream is like a normal dream, but you're just aware that you're dreaming. I actually woke up this morning knowing I had 2 Lucinda last night but I couldn't remember one of them 2. It depends. I find that when I have a LD, I always end up waking up. We actually wake up naturally many times during the night, in between our REM cycles. If you are lucid and reach one of those points, you will wake up, but can "save" your lucid with a DEILD (Dream Exit Induced LD) which is like WILD but you do it as you are or right when you wake up from a dream to transition back into another one. 3. It's possible to be lucid in a dream then something happens which causes you to lose awareness. You could get distracted by something in the dream and forget to pay attention and you might not be lucid anymore. So yes, once you are lucid you're not guaranteed to stay lucid, but there are a number of things that help with that such as stabilization.

[Memm]

- I don't think it's possible to forget a lucid dream, I know this is mentioned in places but in all my time LDing I have never even had a tiny notion that I might have forgotten anything about an LD I had. If something interesting happened to you during the day would you forget it easily? The whole point of an LD is that you're fully conscious, just like you are during waking life, you don't forget LD experiences like you normally would dream experiences, at least not unless you are really tired and your LD was somehow really boring. - You wake up after the end of your REM period, if you wake up from an LD and your REM isn't quite over yet you can stay still and go back into the dream, if you wake up and your brain has had enough there's not much you can do except wait for the next REM period or get out of bed because you've overslept. =P - LDs can transition into a normal dream if you are really tired I suppose, I think it has only happened to me maybe a couple of times, normally when you have an LD you're excited enough about it that it's difficult to go back to normal dreaming.

[Andey]

Haha, so really i will never know what it was! Oh well, im gonna see it as an encouraging sign. Any more tips for a beginner

[Djaxup]

- perfectly possible to forget a LD, sadly. Usually you are excited enough to remember them and as the others have said when waking from a LD at least I am not tired at all. If the LD was cool, I instantly get up and write everything down to strengthen my recall about the dream. DEILD seems great, but the one time I pulled it off it got me into a short semi lucid dream, but my recall of the fine LD before the DEILD was very bad by then. - I woke up after every LD I had so far, wide awake and aware. Strange feeling. - Yes definitely. I rarely encounter active DCs in my dreams, but when I do they try to get me involved in their plot, and I might lose lucidity. The dream then continues just like a normal dream. In one dream I started out normally dreaming but already aware that I might be dreaming, then after RC I was lucid for quite some minutes. I talk to DCs, lose lucidity and am basically back to 3rd person dream mode like normal... later on I regain lucidity, shortly before the dream ended. So it seems possible to go from lucidity to normal dreaming and back.. For now I just avoid DCs alltogether.

[chance7hope]

Hey! 1. Yes it happens rearly and to a few people, but it happens to those that havent trained their mind to have a good dream recall or dont use a dream journal. 2. Well it deppends. Me personaly I have woke up in all my lucid dreams from begining to end. What I am trying to say is that you may loose lucidity during the dream and eventually wake up from a normal dream, and some people dont even realise it. 3. As I mentioned in the second answer it is posible. It happens a lot to the new lucid dreamers and even to some expirienced. You should stay focused and dont think of your body or any physical emotions. Good luck!