Quote Originally Posted by Zoth View Post
Congratulations, I could almost feel your excitement by the way you wrote your post ehehe

I'm sorry if this doesn't seem helpful or encouraging, but I wouldn't say you did anything wrong: it's your first lucid dream! It's the dream which gives you the first window into the amazing experience of your own personal nocturnal reality, and it's meant to be savored and enjoyed for what it is ^^ On a personal note, if I had to define a significant aspect of my first lucid dream, it would be my state of "awe": I did some dream control, but I just felt like laughing the entire time at the weirdness of the situation!

On a more practical sense, I'd say you deserved that lucid dream for sure: from your report it was clear that you were been sensing something wrong before you got lucid (many lucid dreamers also have their first due a simple matter of incubation, not that there's anything wrong with that!), and that's the posture that you want to adopt throughout your daily routine: try to break free of your auto-pilot and WONDER, QUESTION, DEFY.
I'll also disregard any dream control advice for a simple reason: becoming lucid should be your first goal. You might have a clear notion of how to perform dream control, but if you're waiting months for a lucid dream, then your experience will be underwhelming and short, because you were planning too much too early. So just enjoy your next lucid dreams for the unique experiences that they are, try to do things your way (do you know why most people have such an easy time flying? Because they just....do it), and absorb the aspects of this world, what's making you aware of it, and always keep in your possession the thought that you might be there at any point in time.

Good luck on your next lucid!
Thanks, Zoth. I will try to just enjoy lucidity in itself for my next few lucid dreams. In the dream that I wrote about in this post, I was just walking around and observing the dreamscape. Maybe I'll do more of that before I try to do anything crazy like using powers and such. The whole time I was lucid, I felt kind of anxious and on edge. So, I'll try to breathe more and calm down. I think I was also severly lacking in confidence, not realizing that it was MY dream and what I wanted to happen would happen and that regardless of anything, I would be safe. Lol. Why am I answering my own questions?

Anyway, thanks again for the encouraging words, Zoth.