Thread: First Lucid dream

just try to focus on your dream, use all your sences and stay relaxed.

You need to stabilize the dream, it means: Spining, hubbing your hands, focusing on the dreamscape, and touching things.

Staying conscious and aware during a LD is hard. I still haven't perfected it. When I focus too much on my surroundings I tend to lose my lucidity, but when I focus too much on myself then I usually wake up. I think it is just a balance between dream and self awareness that you probably figure out over time, but like I said, I'm still working on that part. Anyway, something I suggest you try in you next LD is flying. I always enjoyed flying in regular dreams, so when I started becoming lucid that was my first priority, and I have to say every time I become lucid I fly around as much as possible. It's a rush. Also, you should start trying to alter smaller things in your dreams first rather than everything around you. First alteration I did was to make someone appear. It was amazingly simple. In fact, I didn't see her at first so I tried making her appear again, but then there were two of her so I had to make one disappear. It was very entertaining. That same dream I tried making everyone else around us disappear, but that proved to be too difficult. They just faded away for a second and then more people reappeared. Just start simple and eventually you will be able to control everything about your dreams. Good luck!

thanks for your advice. Starting out small sounds like a good idea. I'm gonna try your suggestions

Originally Posted by verbalexost

Staying conscious and aware during a LD is hard. I still haven't perfected it. When I focus too much on my surroundings I tend to lose my lucidity, but when I focus too much on myself then I usually wake up. I think it is just a balance between dream and self awareness that you probably figure out over time, but like I said, I'm still working on that part. Anyway, something I suggest you try in you next LD is flying. I always enjoyed flying in regular dreams, so when I started becoming lucid that was my first priority, and I have to say every time I become lucid I fly around as much as possible. It's a rush. Also, you should start trying to alter smaller things in your dreams first rather than everything around you. First alteration I did was to make someone appear. It was amazingly simple. In fact, I didn't see her at first so I tried making her appear again, but then there were two of her so I had to make one disappear. It was very entertaining. That same dream I tried making everyone else around us disappear, but that proved to be too difficult. They just faded away for a second and then more people reappeared. Just start simple and eventually you will be able to control everything about your dreams. Good luck!