Originally Posted by
LouaiB
I tried lots, and succeeded. O/c a lot of fails happened. That's normal. Half of the times I would get distracted in the LD and forget my goal to meet the person I wanted to meet (mostly get distracted by girls xD). The other half would be either successes, tries and fails, or short LDs.
I had a similar experience like yours, only it was a false awakening LD. I had a FA, looked and saw that my TV was now in front of the heater, then I knew it was I dream. I closed my eyes and imagined her, wanting her to appear, and she started appearing slightly but not fully (dang).
But don't get bothered by this, a lot of the times it's easy using neat tricks to summon the person you want. Like I remember this LD where I was viewing a digital art of a really really cute anime girl, and I started moving her arm with my finger, and with more and more movement, I started expecting more malleability of the screen, and so it did become softer and softer, and I got my hand into the screen. At this point the tablet was leveled at my eye level facing up, so I couldn't see the screen, but my arm was deep into it like some kind of well, and I grabbed her arm and started pulling her out. I could see her shadow figure under the tablet during this process, since I felt like she was 'under the tablet-well-thingy w/e lol. I thing I didn't manage to pull her out completely though, and that's when I did the "right around the corner trick" where I said that there would be a cute anime girl outside in the balcony, and I got there and she was there, I cute red haired anime girl, with the night sky and, well night and darkness and so forth, I we had a passionate kiss [French ;) ] . I can still remember how it exactly felt! (It was amazing! O/c I expect them to be pros at this, and so they do become pros at it. Expect something and it happens in dreams. That's why you should only think about winning! Think "the problem isn't summoning him, it's if he would be wearing that sexy red shirt or not" for example. Fool yourself that summoning him is a piece of cake. O/c don't feel bitter if you fail. Know that every miss is a step closer to a hit. Mathematically, this is called probabilities. Just have a confident stance. Again, though, this doesn't mean that you will succeed right away. Be confident, but be ready for misses; DON'T get frustrated. No one is born a pro or a gamer in this, uhhm, unless he's a natural LDer o/c lol.
Yeah, you get the point.
But though, it usually takes years of practice before you get to the really good part of LDing. I'm sure your imagining spending an hour each night going in amazing vivid HD exciting adventures, but it takes lots of sweat to reach that. Those require years of honed skills in LD induction, stabilization, dream recall, dream control, lucidity (or in other words, self awareness). Also you should have good knowledge of your sleep cycle. Planning on hitting a LD in a late REM period for example would give much more aware, vivid and memorable (stronger recall of them) LDs, and non-LDs o/c. Also knowing your wbtb is very important too. For example, for me, I have my best LD quality after a long wbtb, like an hour or 2 long, even 3. And this wbtb would be after around 6 hours of sleep, maybe more.... 7. Also I get very great LDs when I sleep q couple more hours after I naturally wake up (you know, when you wake up after like 9 hours of sleep on a Sunday and feel like you wanna stay in bed more, then drows off for an extra hour or so).
And about that numbness. I feel it when I WILD, that's natural, but usually when I enter the dream, it goes away. But when I start waking up from the dream, I start feeling it again. You must have been waking up, which made you start feeling the numbness, not the other way around. You must have hit the WILD at a late point in that REM cycle (meaning you were going to wake up anyways, the dream was naturally ending).
And about the temperature shift. Was the room in the dream colder than your bedroom? You must have started feeling your room's temperature. Happened to me before. Not only that, but once I was eating fries in my LD, best I've ever had EVER, and I woke up while eating it and it's taste started shifting. When I was awake, it's taste stuck in my mouth for like five seconds, but it was a slightly different taste. I think it's because I started tasting the month's natural acidity while starting to wake up?
Anyways, hope I'm helping! ^_^
