Patience? gentle affirmation? or chance? or all 3, what caused this?!

[bro]

Hi everyone, I haven't been posting much, but last night I had the most incredible experience of my dreams, if not my entire life...I will relate 3 spontaneous lucid dreams I had. 1)I dreampt I was on some shoreline, high up on a cliff, jumping along, (think pogostick 50 feet up, but without the stick) and became lucid, unfortunately, I didn't take advantage of this, since it did not last long... 2)Soon after, I dreampt I met some people from long ago, an old school I used to go to, and they started to run away. I ran after them, parkour style, grabbing onto things, hanging onto the bottom of a chairlift, and jumping over railings. All of this extreme jumping and running got the adrenaline flowing, and before I knew it, there were police behind me, I sprinted away at quite a clip and soared into the air, unfortunately ending the dream... 3) This, my friends, was the best one of all. I was walking on a path, ironically in the same location as the previous LD, and I just knew I was dreaming. The vividity was beyond words. I saw the sun setting, I felt my feet padding against the ground, and I figured out that sudden change makes me lose the dream, so I shielded my eyes from the glaring sun. Now what did I do? Did I fly? Did I have sex? Did I spawn weapons and kill people creatively? No, I sat down on the grass, and marveled at the beauty of my own mind, and what it is capable of producing...I felt the grass, just like reality... I looked at the cars in the lot, identical to the real thing... (except every car had the "Mercury" emblem so I figured this was too much of a coincidence). Soon, I lost it people, because a violent kid came out of nowhere with his clan, and started to pound me, and unfortunately I panicked and ran to our "get-away" bus, but in those 10 seconds of just sitting there (lucidity there lasted for a little over a minute maybe, my best yet) I felt like crying, honestly, because I could appreciate it so much more, now that if finally happened so well. -I did not practice a particular method -I layed there at night fantasizing/vsualizing and generally readying myself to "enjoy the show" and perhaps it was this attitude that helped me along... -(All the lucids occured from 11-1pm, so I may try to shift my schedule so I don't have to sleep so late to get more chance of LD'ing) Of course, there are alot of things that I'm kicking myself for not doing, but there are those experiences that still have me awestruck, letting me know such a profound experience is possible... -Do you think it was the attitude I mentioned above? -Could everyone benefit from laying there, and trying to just see what their mind wants to show them? ready to take action, but "no strings attached?" -Was it just chance, since there was no particular method I practiced? Don't feel obligated to answer these if you don't want to, I just felt compelled to relate this experience...thanks for reading friends...

[skysaw]

I've had similar LDs where I just wanted to stop and take the scenery in, even in mundane settings. Usually this is when there is a very heightened sense of reality, and I'm just dumbstruck by it all. It also can serve to create a heightened sense of reality. One of my most profound LD moments was simply touching a window sill, and feeling the wood in my hand. It was so incredibly real, that it just made me smile at the wonder of my own brain. I had a similar moment later stroking a dream character's hair. I also remember once walking on an uneven grassy area, and actually feeling the bumpiness of the ground through my shoes.

[Clairity]

but in those 10 seconds of just sitting there (lucidity there lasted for a little over a minute maybe, my best yet) I felt like crying, honestly, because I could appreciate it so much more, now that if finally happened so well. bro, I envy experiences like that. After years of having LDs.. I sorta forget to "stop and smell the roses".. thanks for the reminder. -Do you think it was the attitude I mentioned above? -Could everyone benefit from laying there, and trying to just see what their mind wants to show them? ready to take action, but "no strings attached?" -Was it just chance, since there was no particular method I practiced? Probably, definately and possibly. .