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      (Part 1/2) HeLp please! I think I have one foot in the door of lucidity, but, one foot that's not.

      So, I have been practicing to try and have lucid dreams for about seven weeks now. I think I'm really close, but I'm not exactly sure how to fully get there. Let me explain. Two nights ago, I had probably one of the most vivid and meaningful dreams that I've had in a while. Here it is:

      Me and my brother are in some room that seems to be inside of a high school. There are double doors in front of us. They are wooden, but the handles and window frames are metal. Somehow, the handles pull themselves down and the doors open at the same time. My brother and I go through it. After we go through it, I somehow see a view of the doors that we previously had and the doors are now shutting and lock permanently with a red dot that lights up in between the handle. I know that I HAVE TO go down this path/obstacle course ahead of us and I know that someone and/or something is waiting for me at the end of the path in a bright, white space. However, the lights where my brother and I are are turned off. I start hiding behind my brother as we progress through this maze obstacle course because I'm scared and can barely see. But, I know that nothing will actually hurt me. Then, somehow, I end up in a rectangular-walled bathroom that has 4 doors, one on each wall. I am facing one of the long walls in front of me. It is still dark and I'm still scared. **semi-lucidity... maybe->** But, now, I decide that I need to be brave and I say or think to myself,"If I want to be able to explore the dream world, I need to be able to fearlessly explore the real world." I go through the door behind me and see what looks like a bedroom with only one door that was on my left when I enter the room. It is pretty dark in this room as well. I see some girl that does stupid Vine videos whom I seem to know already. She seems to be sitting in front of a computer. We are talking, but, I forget what we are talking about. All of a sudden, her man comes through the only door in the room. He is tall, seems to be Hispanic, and has short, black hair. He casually says,"Hey." I say,"Hey" back. The girl that I met runs to her man to give him a hug. She wraps her arms around his broad (not fat) body, while he has no emotion on his face and doesn't even hug her back. I think the dynamic of their relationship is cute. The girl then runs back to her computer. I turn to her and ask her,"Where is the door to lucidity? Where am I supposed to go?" She says,"I can't tell you where you're supposed to go. But, I WILL tell you that if you keep going to the left, you'll keep going in circles". I exit the room from the door that I came through and am now in the bathroom again (which is still dark... Like everywhere else) in the same position I was in to begin with. I look to my left and notice that there is a white toilet in the left corner with its top lid up and it is facing me. I go to it and look down in it. I suddenly spit out toothpaste by the right of toilet. I wonder to myself,"Why did I just do that?". I now somehow get white paper towels from the left side of me and am trying to hurry up and clean it because I feel like me getting to the end of this "path" is very important and urgent. I don't finish cleaning it up and leave the paper towels on the floor and think/say to myself,"Hnnnnn. I don't have time for this!" I get up and exit through the left door. When I look in the new room, I find that it is the SAME exact bathroom from before, except it doesn't have the mess by the toilet. I walk through the left door of this room as well only to find the same bathroom and go through the same exact door. Now that I find myself in the 4th bathroom, behind me, I hear the voice of the girl that I met screaming,"Hey! Get back here and clean up this mess!" I look behind me and see the 4 bathrooms(including the one that I am currently in) and see her boyfriend's head peaking out of the bedroom door in the first bathroom that I was in. Her boyfriend says,"You'd better get over here and clean up this mess." I feel guilty for leaving a mess in my friend's bathroom so, I turn back and exit the 3 bathrooms that I just went through and return to the first bathroom. When I get to the first bathroom, I notice that the toilet is now on the right side of the bedroom door instead of the left. I think nothing of it and continue using the paper towels that I had on the floor to clean up the mess I had made. The girl is at her computer still and tells me,"Clean it up with the 'datafibula'!" I say,"The 'datafibula'?! How do you even spell that?!" She says,"D-A-T-A-F-I-B-U-L-A. It's on the towel hanger." I now look towards the direction that the front door of the bathroom is supposed to be and notice that there is a white rectangular tub with its long side in front of and blocking the front door of the bathroom. There is a metal bar that is floating above the side of the tub closest to me. On the bar, there is a red rag with gold stripes. I look at it, pick it up with my left hand and call out to the girl,"You mean this dish rag?! (or something like that)" she says,"Yeah!" I say,"Why didn't you just say 'dish rag' then?" She doesn't answer and I start cleaning the mess up with the dishrag. When I look at the front of the bathroom, I notice that the tub and metal rod are no longer there and that the front door is still there. I don't know why, but, I dismiss the idea of using that door in front of me. (Dream done)

      With a dream like this, I was really happy to know that I possibly had some control over my actions. However, I was still unaware that I was in a dream (I think). I am going to make a continuation of this post because I feel like this is already too long and I don't want to bore people to tears. But, do any of you guys have suggestions on what I need to do to fully obtain lucidity? I would really appreciate your answers. Please and thank you!

      Here is the link to the second part of this post:
      (Part 2/2) HeLp please! I think I have one foot in the door of lucidity, but, one foot that's not.

      -Ajanime22

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      Sounds like you are on the cusp of lucidity. This is actually a fairly common experience. Depending on what you are doing (you haven't posted anything about your practice, so it is difficult to know what to tell you to do), I would recommend the following:

      1. Do a 30 minute to 1 hour WBTB. Just try it a few times, and see if it raises awareness in your dreams.
      2. Practice MILD, or use some kind of calm affirmations before falling back asleep.
      3. Fall asleep using a WILD anchor (visualization, focus on a point in your body, SSILD, etc.)

      Just keep up the pace. Sounds like you've been hammering at this for a while. You might need to take a short break as well (2-3 days, to start)--just relax. That's really only if you've been very tight with doing lots of reality checks, or if you are getting at all frustrated. If you tell us what you are doing right now to prepare for lucidity, it will be easier to guide you.

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      Thanks for the response! As for my practice: I constantly ask myself,"What was I just doing?" throughout the day. Before this dream, I slept from 12-30-4:40. At 4:40, I was writing down the dreams that I had before this one. Then I went to bed at 6:00-7:15 and as I was going to sleep I said to myself,"Just keep REPEATING the situation in your head" in an attempt to remember to do this in a dream and realize that I'm dreaming. Then, had the semi-lucid dream that I posted.
      But, I think I finally became kinda lucid last night. Please read the continuation of this post in the link that I put in the original post at the bottom. I would love to get your input.

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