What was your first time like?

[cooter]

What was your first LD like (if you can remember it)? Mine can be summed up in one word: Retarded. I had a horrible sense of unbalance, it felt like the whole world was being torn appart (after the inital spiral rush of entering the state), and I couldn't tell if i was actually awake or not. Very uncomfortable, the whole world slipping appart around me. What about you?

[LucidDreamGod]

Same, I fell over,and felt all dizzy, hit the ground with in 3 secounds, this is the first LD I had when I know what LD's where, when I was a kid, I didn't like to lucid dream, I would run all over trying to wake my self up, I would jump down stairs, and once I ran straight into a stove on perpise.

[nesgirl119]

Which one? 1st LD, or 1st controlled LD? Well I can do both. My 1st LD was like this.....it was a WILD at age 3. I just started to move & I thought, "Am I in my imagination, since I am moving? Yes, Yes I am in my imagination!" (I couldn't talk back then, so I could only rely on words that I knew in my mind). Well, I was just at my preschool, & I am like following along, knowing that this wasn't real life, but I couldn't control anything, & just had to listen to story time from the teacher, but she could read my thoughts, so we were able to communicate. Most of my LDs at age 3 were not under my control, b/c I couldn't talk. My 1st controllable was when I was 4. Well, when I was in the preschool yet again, I said to myself, "I want to be in Mario show!" So the landscape changed to that, & I ended up teaming w/Mario & the others, they got captured, bowser chased me, then I kicked his butt!" I became leader of the Marios (& to this day, I think it was stupid, but I was only 4) My 1st Shared Dream was w/my boyfriend about when the Sci-fis started, & it's like we are running through an open field....it will never happen again, now . My 1st Sci-fi is found in my DJ!

[Gothlark]

In my first LD, I basically did a Road Runner impression and kicked up a bunch of dust while running at super speed until the dream shifted, which was about ten seconds later. I lost lucidity at that time, due to my newbness.

[nesgirl119]

Originally posted by Gothlark In my first LD, I basically did a Road Runner impression and kicked up a bunch of dust while running at super speed until the dream shifted, which was about ten seconds later. I lost lucidity at that time, due to my newbness. How old were you when you started?

[l3xicon]

I enjoyed my first LD...or @ least the first one i can remember! i remember i had visisted this site a few times & my "used 2 be" friend was always talking about it. So i remember one nite i was in this dream (this was after i had been locating dream signs) & i remember i lost my favorite toe ring in this old jr. high...which was right next 2 my highschool....& i remember everyone @ this party...which somehow resembled Bilbo's from LOTR....anyhow....told me not 2 enter 'cause it was all cursed & shit....well i was like "PPPSSHHHH! i'm go'en in!" but after a short time entering....i got scared & ran out! i then remember thinking for some odd reason..."now would've some wolves run after me?" well u know what happens when u LD...u think it...u create it....the thing is i really didn't do it on purpose...but when i saw them coming i somehow thought "this wouldn't happen in real life....u created 'em now destroy 'em" so i did what any other insane being would do....i pulled the ol' RE trick w/a shotgun!!!

[SmartAznTiger]

Well, I only had one so far...but I was surprised and excited to be in the first lucid dream.

[Amethyst Star]

Cool with just a pinch of odd: http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=80130 The second one was awesome, though. There was this crazy plurality where I could feel my physical body sleeping and my dream body moving. Too bad it didn't last longer. -Amé

[Alaurast78]

Well I believe that I have had LD's all my life they were just very low level and I believe I was afraid of them. Anyway my first LD was a lot like cynical_bob's. I had a horrible sense of unbalance, it felt like the whole world was being torn appart (after the inital spiral rush of entering the state), and I couldn't tell if i was actually awake or not. [/b] I knew I was dreaming and for some reason I could not control anything and fear took over... I mean this dead weight fear that takes over your soul! I would feel like I was falling and that someone or something very very evil was after me. I have had this dream many times and it is always the same. Totally scary, in black and white, in the same room and I have the same feelings. Like I said I know it is a dream but all i can do is wake myself up because it freaks me out so much! My first LD since joining the site was a lot more fun! Check it out! http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic....2363&highlight=

[irishcream]

okay, this is kinda embarrassing... but my first LD that i truly recall as a proper LD involved me going to bed with someone... hey, i was desperate! it was damned good though. never done it since.

[Citrusponge]

My first 2 lucid dreams I remember were on the same night. Dunno how old I was but I'm sure it was a single digit. I dreamt I was in a theme park, then just spontaneously realised I was dreaming (like all my LDs ever). I thought "hmm... I can just wake up whenever I like". And I did. I sat up in my bed and thought that was pretty sweet, and tried to do it again. I went back to sleep, and was in that same themepark again, realised I was dreaming. I then woke myself up again, thought "yay", then went back to sleep. That waking up bit in the middle might have been a false awakening but I highly doubt it.

[LouisC]

It wasn't a dream, but more of a feeling. I can't really explain it, but I knew I was sleeping and dreaming, but I couldn't do anything about it. I've had the same dream many times... or maybe I dreamed I had the same dream... I dunno, it was very, very, very wierd.

[Crossedout]

My first successful attempt to have a LD was about 12 years ago. I had been training myself to question reality whenever something strange happened for about a week. I was dreaming that I was being chased down the Daytona Beach boardwalk and then onto the pier. As I was running i suddenly thought "why am I runnng? Is this a dream?" Instantly I was aware that it was a LD. It suprised me how perfectly vivid everything became after this realization (I could smell the ocean and feel the sunlight on my skin). I then got so excited I just ran and jumpd off the end of the pier. This was a mistake because spalshing into the water woke me up.

[disabled_account_2]

Can't really remember since I've had them my entire life. I do remember that I used to make friends with ghosts in my dreams...I know it sounds bizarre

[Aethereal_Pellucidity]

Originally posted by Alaurast78 Well I believe that I have had LD's all my life they were just very low level and I believe I was afraid of them. Anyway my first LD was a lot like cynical_bob's. I had a horrible sense of unbalance, it felt like the whole world was being torn appart (after the inital spiral rush of entering the state), and I couldn't tell if i was actually awake or not. I knew I was dreaming and for some reason I could not control anything and fear took over... I mean this dead weight fear that takes over your soul! I would feel like I was falling and that someone or something very very evil was after me. I have had this dream many times and it is always the same. Totally scary, in black and white, in the same room and I have the same feelings. Like I said I know it is a dream but all i can do is wake myself up because it freaks me out so much! My first LD since joining the site was a lot more fun! Check it out! http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic....2363&highlight= [/b] That's happenned to me, too. I fell into a black hole (it sounds funny, but it really isn't) and even though I was perfectly lucid, I could do nothing, and the worse I stuggled the harder it was to get out. . . . Those are NOT fun. On a ligher note, I have been lucid dreaming for pretty much my entire life -- low-level at first, but building my way up. So I can't tell you my first lucid dream, but I CAN tell you the first one I remember. I was at the beach, on one of those rocky walls they make along ship harbors. Running off one side of this was one of those large, four-or-five-person metal slides that they have on little-kid playgrounds. And a bunch of my friends and I were on it, trying unsuccessfully to scramble up the slippery slide to get away from the big scary shark at the bottom. I was in second grade. So eventually, I get tired of running up the slide, and I jumbed down onto a stretch of beach. And the shark starts lunging at me on either side, but never touching me. And then I realize to my surprise that the shark has BUCK TEETH! So of course I realize that I'm dreaming, and I stand there because the shark can't possibly get me. Then I get bored of standing around and jump back onto the slide and continue running away from the shark. But this time, I know it's a dream and I treat it like a game, even though my friends are scared out of their wits. So there you have it. Nothing so beautifully symbolic as some of what you've been describing -- unless you are Buddhist and look at it as symbolic of Enlightenment and Samsara, with the shark piosing as Mara, of course. But then, I was rather young, and it was enough to have a strong impact on my attitude toward dreaming.