1st WBTB attempt = SUCCES! It lasted so long I forgot how it started

So ... Wow, I am still so excited about this. I woke up laughing. This was my third lucid dream ever and with this technique I succeded from the first attempt, it's incredible, who would of thought? So I was always frustrated about my very first two lucid dreams lasting under a minute, but this one lasted like an hour. It was sooo long I couldn't even remember how I even became lucid. So yeah, In the beginning of the dream I could easily fly, then all of a sudden I'm at school. I kept asking people if they were dreaming, because I was and that I wasn't awake. They kept thinking that I am crazy and what did I smoke etc ... Throughout the dream I did plenty of reality checks, looking at my hands was incredible! Everytime I looked at them they were in different shape, it was fking amazing. I spinned around, I rubbed my hands, everything I could do to increase the dream durability. I was lacking things of what to do in the dream, I even got bored at a time. I remember I fought some dude because I thought I wouldn't feel pain, but damn it hurt! Pain really exists. I kept telling a classmate to tell me what I did the next day because right now I was sleeping and I thought it would be a good idea to make someone tell me the next day at school what really happened, but poor me I forgot I'm on vacation and the characters were projections of my subconcious. Every single character acted exactly like in real life. I told a bully I was dreaming and he started laughing at me and he thought I'm high on weed, wtf... I wish I'd of done more, but later in the dream I couldn't even fly anymore. I tried jumping out a window from the building, but around 3 classmates pulled me back shouting "OOOOOOOOOOOOW". Anyways, it's incredible... Any tips for future lucid dreams?

Congratulations! And I hope you have many, many more lucid dreams. Just remember not to be too disappointed if the LDs don't come fast and furious now.

What do you mean by that JSAvalo?

Congratulations on that! It sounds awesome :). Can you explain the technique you used? I would like to have one of those myself because it was a long time since i had a LD and i kinda miss it.

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It's very easy and I got it working on the first try, mindblowing! At step 2 I read about lucid dreaming, as it suggests.

The Wake Back To Bed Method

STEP ONE - Go to bed as normal and allow yourself to sleep for six hours. Set your alarm clock or have another early riser wake you up.

STEP TWO - After six hours, get out of bed and fully wake yourself up. Find something to occupy your brain to make you alert. Read about lucid dreaming if you want to stay focused on the subject. Stay alert for 20-60 minutes. (Hint: you must get out of bed!)

STEP THREE - Go back to bed and relax. If your mind is too alert, practice meditation, listen to brainwave entrainment and/or perform Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams. Use your visualization skills to place your mind back in the dreamscape and plan your next lucid dream as you fall asleep.

My experience has been that lucid dreams come sporadically. One night my dream seems so obviously a dream that it's very easy to be lucid. The next night a lot of weird shit happens and I never make the connection that I'm dreaming. But your experience may be different. In any case, congrats!

The exact same thing happened to me on my first WBTB and like JSAvalo has said, don't expect it every time. It worked for me on my first two tries and I've done it now about 8 times total and had a Lucid on 4 of them... still I mean 50% is amazing (so far). But yea it was so exciting for me too the first time I tried it and it worked... I woke up giddy. From my experience I can dictate the amount of pain I feel... Like if things initially hurt I can make them not hurt or feel a manageable amount of pain. That's the same thing for anything I really focus on and believe in though. Or you can always go with the flow.

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What do you mean by that JSAvalo?

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She means that it might take some time between your lucid dreams even after you have achieved them a few times, and that you shouldn't be disappointed if it takes a while before you have your next one.

I would say that on average, a dedicated lucid dreamer might have somehing around 4-5 lucid dreams per month for a while, and then gradually get more and more of them.