Hello from Jish

Hello everybody and how are you?

I am an absolute beginner to lucid dreaming. I came on this website for 20 mins last night and had a little read and went to sleep.

Did I lucid dream you all ask? well..yes!

but its not so fantastic, my dream lasted for about 2 seconds before I woke up, It wasn't because I got excited or anything, I just woke up.

I got to the state by having my alarm clock going off in the morning, I pressed the snooze button which goes off every 5 minutes and started thinking about lucid dreaming
and that's how I did it on my first ever attempt!

Also my conscious recognition of trying to remember my dreams worked on the first night too, I remembered my dream the next (this) morning!, we will see how it goes tonight!

Since I'm new I took the time to read the FAQ page but still have a couple more questions so any help would be greatly appreciated.

1) in general are peoples dreams vivid?
2) I had a friend tell me that meditation, specifically clearing the mind would work great and I should learn this before I even attempt to lucid dream.
3) what is a rough time-frame to be in a dream and does it differ from reality?

thank you in advance for your answers and I hope to contribute to the forum in the future!

1) Mine are extremely vivid, with high emphasis on the five senses.

2) Thats what I told my friend.

3) The rate at which time passes by in a dream is proportional to the rate in reality.

And... Welcome!

Hi Jish, I saw you in chat a little while ago, hope you enjoyed it. You can type

Code:

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/join #luciddreaming

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to go to a channel that is dedicated to lucid dreaming.

1) in general are peoples dreams vivid?
Depends on many factor,s more notably: stress, tiredness, deepness of sleep...

2) I had a friend tell me that meditation, specifically clearing the mind would work great and I should learn this before I even attempt to lucid dream.
Not a necessity, I meditate from time to time, but didn't start until active i was an active lucid dreamer.

3) what is a rough time-frame to be in a dream and does it differ from reality?
It's usually 1:1, a number of studies have been conducted on the subject

Hello Pieman & ninja thankyou for your replies, you both answered very well the information I was after. I will practice meditation to see what effect it will have on my ability to lucid dream. It only makes sense that having control over your mind will give better & more vivid progress.

Ninja thankyou for the tip in chat, I will try it sometime, I thought perhaps I was joining a dog forum since you were all talking about how cute they were:cheeky:
look forward to talking to you all!

Hi there Jish, we talked in IRC for a bit ;)
Seeing as ninja and pieman already answered your questions, i'm just gonna chuck in my 2cents for the meditation question
It really depends on what style of meditating you do; void meditation, focal meditation? If you're interested in learning about meditation, there's a course in the DVA section of the forums, which i will link here.

I can see your questions are already answered. :)

Just wants to say welcome :welcome: and congratulations.
Many people training weeks/months for dreaming what you dreamed, a few seconds lucid. Be happy, lucky you. :shadewink: And good luck with your new journey.