Thread: First time Lucid. What went wrong?

OK so I'm a complete beginner at this. However, last night i finished reading a book called Lucid Dreaming by Charlie Morely (awesome book, highly recommended) and that very same night I found myself kneeling on a bed in a dark room and straight away I knew something wasn't right. I did a RC and sure enough my hand is massive and there are far too many fingers there!!! Now I know for sure its a dream and I'm trying my best to stay absolutely calm.I say out loud 'be cool, its a dream', and then I look at my hand again. Now my fingers have gone from being massive to tiny little stumps, which I find disturbing so I stop looking at it. Here's where it gets super weird.... I try to move but I can't. My body goes completely rigid and starts to jerk violently. I try to move my arms but they're stuck solid by my sides. Then I get these intense vibrations and a high pitched noise and then I'm awake!!! Racing heart beat,confused as hell.

My question is this: what the hell happened in there? Did that count as a Lucid dream? If so,why wasnt I able to take control??

Thanks

Hey elliotcaddy o/

Yeah, that count as a lucid dream and yeah, there are some dreams we can't control
Dream control is something you need some pratice to attain..
You have to be calm and strong believe in what you want to do

The question here is "How was that experience?" instead of "What the hell heppened in there?"
you just need to pratice more, I have some dream control problems too and every time I enter in a lucid state I try my best to do things that I can't in real life, just to make myself sure that I'm learning

Ah, in a dream that you can't control your body, just calm your mind and focus in one part of your body (I usualy focus on my left arm) trying your best to move it

Hey there,

I call what you experienced dream paralysis. Basically, your lucid happened in such a light state of sleep (or so close to awakening) that your body was already processing outside stimuli, and these bleed into your dreamscape. Specifically, in this case, the feeling of lying immobile in your bed. So in your dream too, you find yourself lying immobile in your bed.

For myself, the trick is not to focus on the paralysis itself. In my dreams, whatever I focus on or give attention to just gets more pronounced. So actually trying to break free from the paralysis just strengthens it instead, or wakes me up. Instead, I'll focus on other dream sensations. Sights, sounds, and so forth. This proces of 'grounding' myself in the dream often pulls me back deeper into sleep, which in turn causes the paralysis to fade and me to move freely again.

In fact, for most anything that I don't want to experience in dreams, ignoring it or forgetting about it is the best way to get rid of it

Just my 2 cents,

-Redrivertears-

Get used to the idea that you do not have a body in your dreams, it is just a dreambody, you don't need your dreambody to move around in your dreams. You can move by just focusing and believing that you will actually move to the place where you lay your focus.

But as stated above, these problems will probably go away when you get more experience with lucid dreams, these kind of weird experiences are great, in my opinion. They are also good for your mental flexibility. This moving through focus is explained in Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, stuff about mental flexibility is also in the book, I highly recommend it.

Good luck.

I have experienced dream paralysis too...I realize that I'm dreaming, but I can't move no matter what I do..this has happened a few times..in fact,in all the lucid dreams that I've had...