Thread: I Finally Did It! FIRST LD!

Hi all, i finally had my first LD after months of trying! I have had dreams where i dreamed i became lucid, but never fully became lucid. But last night i i had my most lucid dream to date!

I wrote an extensive description of the dream, which seemed to last for hours, a large portion of which was non-lucid. However, i will skip to the part where i became lucid. (Well, the lucidity beings in four paragraphs time, skip there if you like). I went to bed attempting to WILD (i have become very close recently), but had a DILD instead.

I was coming out of my old school (which i left last year) to go home. There was a reason i was there, an admin type thing because i left the school for a different college/sixth form/high school, which was a very odd section of the dream which i didn't like because it brought back bad memories of my old school which i detested. This non lucid part took up about 80% of the dream.

Anyway, im there in my old school and as i past my old school cafeteria i try to talk to a friend who was on a path higher up from me (like 15 metres above me) so i climb the wall as it if were nothing, with minimal effort. Im like "thats odd" but i see my friend wasn't there when i got to the top. Then i notice a giant cathedral like structure above the cafateria ( i went to a posh school with old buildings but this was magnificent!) and i say to myself "Im going to climb it!"

So im climbing and as i am, i notice how easy it is with random things sticking out of the wall to climb on. Now, have any of you ever played an "Assassin's Creed" game? It was EXACTLY like that. If you have played AC2 you might know that when you go towards a hanging basket you can swing around the corner. I did that and i thought "Okay, this is EXACTLY like Assassins Creed!" (watch a youtube video if you haven't played it and want to know what im talking about). Okay i keep climbing higher and higher until im about 40 metres from the ground. The sky is grey and there are heavy clouds, i think "this is scary" and i realise how high up i am. I think to myself that it is best i climb down. However, there is no way down, and every time i put my foot lower , i slip. So i continue climbing. Eventually i end up handing from a suspended pole about 50 metres in the air!


This is where i become lucid!

So im hanging, and i am terrified about dying. "Oh shit, oh shit im going to die im going to die what have i done!?" is basically what i thought. Then it hits me - WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING CLIMBING A CATHEDRAL IN MY OLD SCHOOL? I take one hand off the pole, willingly, and pinch the other arm. "Hmm, couldn't feel much, best check my fingers." I look, at one hand , Five fingers. I looke at the other... 7 fingers! I grin to myself knowing that i have become lucid! I tell myself to calm down so i do not wake up!

Okay, im lucid and hanging from the pole. Im like "this is only a dream, i wont die". So i let go. And im suspended for a moment. Then all off sudden i begin to float down, quite quickly though. Before i know it, im on the ground but hovering a few inches off it on my back. I think "OH MY GOD THAT WAS SO FUN". I get up straight and think - "Well, im Lucid. What now?" i have had so many things i have wanted to do in my dreams for so long now, and i cant think. I think "okay, lets just test this out". I run forward a bit, and take a jump off a small hill and bound and float in mid air for about 15 metres! Now firm in the belief im not dreaming i am lucid, i AM lucid i think "well best get the bus home".

So i run towards the bus stop as fast as i can, out running everybody i meet! I finally reach the bustop, and think "okay, the next bus will be my bus!" It wasn't. Then i remembered "oh shit i left my blazer and bag at the school!". I start running back then halfway there i think "what the hell am i doing - this is a dream!" So i run back. At the bus stop again, i decide to test my lucidity again. I reach up on the bus stop and launch myself up as if i had impeccable upper body strength. Super pull ups! Talking to the strange old people at the bus stop. I think "well what can i do now that im lucid?" Then, the next part is embarrassing to say, i become aroused. So then i look around the bus stop for a girl (trust me, im cringing as i type) and then i see one. Shes a girl i know from college, in one of my classes. We have never really spoke so it was really random to encounter her. Im not attracted to her, even though is she is quite pretty. Anyway, im pretty confused as to why shes here, like i said we never speak. So i approach her and go "hey i need to ask you something - am i dreaming?" They were like "no" im like "sure? you're not reading this from a postcard or something?" Whatever the hell that means. And i think here is where i lost lucidity because i became SO paranoid that i wasn't dreaming that i scared myself non-lucid and for the next five or so mins. I end up talking to her and her mates without thinking about it, whereas in normal life i have like extreme social phobia (i mean extreme)! Then after ten minutes i remember "hold on! i was lucid a while ago! I ran faster than any man alive, fell from 50 ft and survived and jumped over 10 metres in a single leap - what the fuck am i doing waiting for a bus?" With another RC i think "okay, time to adventure". Then i feel my real life eyes opening. It was like something out of a movie, im screaming "No! I haven't had time to have fun yet!" And then i wake up and im like "NO!". And then i wrote it down, which is something i rarely ever do with my dreams!

So yeah, i never actually thought i would be able to do it, but i did! Im going to take LDing very seriously now considering i know that i can do it now! Thanks in particular to the forums for helping me!