Thread: My first lucid dream!

Thats cool. It sounds like once you were lucid, you woke up. That's what usually happens to me.

Good job on getting your first lucid! What you wrote down is just like a mantra except you wrote it rather than saying it to yourself. Maybe putting the effort into writing it focuses your mind more onto the idea? I'll give it a try tonight. I'm not sure if you can try to make it actually feel like reality, but the Dream Stabilization and Clarity Tutorial has ways to make it more vivid and focus your dream senses.

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@Oreoboy1996
Great, thanks for the link Oreo.

Congrats man, i'm stil trying to get my first lucid dream

Hi again I tried doing the same thing last night but I think I was too tired in the last 2 days I've longboarded a distance of 20.2 Kilometers. I'll be going again today but will take it easy when riding. I do remember dreaming... it not worth noting in this thread though but still I should write it down in my dream journal tonight. I find that if I write down the same matras over (pretty much copying it all down word for word) it becomes less meaningful and I don't have as much success as I did the day before. I was interrupted in between writing and going to bed -- so it could have been that instead.

I was about to post that it didn't work for me, but I just realized I did it wrong. I only wrote the sentence once and read it a couple times overs. I was supposed to write a page of it. Ok I'll try this again tonight the right way. I can imagine that it would become less meaningful only if you start to give it less thought half way through writing/reading. If I understand the idea of this right, you would have to write and read each sentence slowly while thinking of the meaning of each word for it to remain effective.

Two Pages. 1 page for each sentence. Take for example: "Tonight I will remember my dream" = 1 page, "I will do a reality check in my dream" = 1 page.. but keep changing the words or else it becomes monotonous and ineffective so... "Tonight I will remember to dream - It is easy to lucid dream." make 2 or 3 variants of a single sentence and use them, but don't look back at them and copy. Just go with what your hand writes.

I am no master, but that definitely worked for me.

I didn't have a lucid dream last night. I did it in a way that should have worked last night, but not exactly like you said above. There were also a couple other things that would have affected my ability to lucid dream though. I'll just keep trying at it for like a week. I can't give up just after 1 fail.

Thanks for the update Oreoboy1996,

make sure you are entirely ready for bed before you start writing and go straight to bed after writing. Don't think about anything in between writing and going to bed. Once in bed, repeat the mantras over in your head.


What is it that you usually do to get lucid though?

EDIT: I was missing an important detail. I did a WBTB... I don't know if it was successful because I skipped the transition stage and just found myself in a dream.. yeah so try waking yourself up in the middle of the night and going straight back to sleep (also make sure you are aware that you are going back to sleep - don't repeat it in your head just feel your body going back to sleep). You should wake yourself up at least 4 hours after falling asleep if you have an mp3 player you might be able to set an alarm. I've got an alarm that wakes me up every time. I edited it so that it would be long enough to wake me at a time of my choice depending on what time I went to bed that night usually it's around 10PM-11PM it's an mp3 file... I just have to retrieve it and zip it.

EDIT: It seems to be too big of a file to be attached.

I could do file splitting but then you would need the right software to put it back together... I think.

EDIT: winzip would do the trick.

What I think went wrong was a stessful day, a noisy family, and the fact that I didn't bother to go to bed until like 12:30. I also like to meditate before going to bed, but I couldn't even focus on that. Not sure if I'm really aloud to use these as excuses though. I still remembered 3 dreams that night and I usually just have random LDs.

I've been recording the times of the night I wake up naturally. Assuming I go to bed at 10:00-11:00, the first time I wake up is either 2am or 4am, second time about 6am, and then my alarm wakes me up at 8am. I imagine that doing a WBTB after my second natural wake up would work. If I use an alarm in the middle of the night, my sister somehow hears it from her room, wakes up, and then looks for something to hit me with. So yeah I don't like alarms.

If I'm right this time it would go like this.
Step 1: Do standard bedtime preparations.
Step 2: Write 2 pages of each mantra, while keeping the text from becoming meaningless.
Step 3: Read the 2 pages over.
Step 4: Go to bed while repeating mantras in my head.
Step 5: Wake up at either 4am or 6am.
Step 6: Do a WBTB or DEILD if possible.
Step 7: Destroy Earth with a nuclear explosion!

I might have to do more research on MILDs and WBTB again before I try this.

Those are all very valid excuses. Life happens. We cannot plan for everything and expect things to go according to plan. I meant if you have an mp3 player and set of headphones that you don't really care for you could wear them around your neck. As for your dream count. That's absolutely amazing if I go to bed too tired (mentally or physically) I don't remember a thing. I'm struggling to remember 2 dreams. the one is always more memorable than the other. The past two days I've been over-exerting my body by longboarding too much or too fast... So my ability to be even the slightest bit aware during my was zero.

To tell you the truth I don't use my alarm much any more since I've gotten used to my new sleeping pattern. Most nights I am able t realise that I'm awake and I then try my best to do a WBTB.

Step 2: one page of each mantra everything else is right. You could definitely try 2 pages. I can only see it being more effective. By the end of my first page I am no longer thinking about my daily worries and am more focused on writing my second mantra. By the end of the second page I am only thinking positive thoughts about lucid dreaming.

But now I feel like writing 2 pages of each mantra or one of the first and 3 of the second.

Welcome brotha! I'm new too, woot!

Going for a ride. Greetings SouledIn, pleased to meet you. Stick around, I'll be back in a few hours.

Lol, oops, I meant to say 1 page for each mantra. And no, I do not have a mp3 player. I'm sure my natural sleep cycle will be good enough though.

Tonight I'm going to do something different yet again. I will do free-writing. You know how I said "Just go with what your hand writes." well I'm going to do some of that and forget about thinking. My subconscious will be forced to become active. If I tell it to write about dreams and lucidity, I might have a greater chance of becoming lucid.

Well I did the writing part right this time and all the other things I do before bed went ok. I kind of failed at the WBTB though. I didn't stay awake long enough for it to work and then I almost did a WILD by accident I think. My body went numb, I saw an orange lightning bolt, and then I was unconscious. I then had a repeated nightmare for 3 hours that stupid me should have become lucid from by the 4th time lol. I'll keep trying for the rest of the week because this method really should work and I screwed up again.

I suppose one needs a "this is the way it's going to be" kind of attitude in order for this to work.

I failed at my WBTB as well. Looking back, I don't think I was aware enough. I did have a very realistic dream though. I was at my favorite coffee shop the one I go to every time I go longboarding. I'm so sure I would have become lucid had I not neglected to start doing reality checks daily. It's got to be important if I keep hearing about it.

But the thing about WILDing and WBTBs is that one is aware the entire time when successfully completing a WILD/WBTB. Maybe I need to do my WBTB at 5 or 6 AM when the sun is a bit higher and my room is a bit brighter.

Failed at the WBTB part again last night. My dog was sleeping in my room and started dreaming. I guess dogs don't have sleep paralysis because she just kept barking and 'running' in her sleep. At some point I just lost focus and decided to sleep with out caring about lucid dreaming or not. So in the end I didn't have a lucid dream and I barely remember any dreams from the night. Going to try again tonight!

I too wasn't able to WBTB -- I seem to have high expectations for myself. Every evening now and through out the day I've been reassuring myself while doing my reality checks, saying for instance "tonight my unconscious mind will be free of all shackles and become lucid". I've been doing that and the free-writing as well as the written mantras. So I'm up to writing 4 pages now. It got to do something, all this repetition has to affect the brain on some level.

Ever have one of those nights where you just lay there for 2 hours and try to think of the difference between intelligence and wisdom, and then another 1-2 hours thinking of the difference between the brain and mind? Well that's what happened one night... Last night I was just to sick to care about anything.

Going to keep trying until I do it right.

Life caught up with me for a while there, I haven't been taking lucid dreaming seriously enough since I was so busy and all. but I think I've got everything under control again so I'm going to make some serious attempts to gain lucidity again.

I have never had a lucid dream i am going to have to look up some stuff on how to have one

Um, hi sharedreams, try speaking with KingYoshi. he has been a great help to me and I'd suggest him anytime there are quite a few others I'd suggest but KingYoshi would be a great start. or read some of his articles, they aren't in the articles section of dreamviews but here are some links that I have found useful: http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/wild-a...aining-107214/ (not KingYoshi's link); here are the articles KingYoshi wrote: http://www.dreamviews.com/f139/lesso...ontrol-115892/ http://www.dreamviews.com/f139/lesso...ontrol-116300/ http://www.dreamviews.com/f79/yoshis...chnique-82529/ there's also a Dream Induced Lucid Dream tutorial that KingYoshi wrote but I seem to have lost the link.