Hit my First Lucid Dream ?!

[PainZ]

Hey guys, after about a month of failure and no progress, mostly due to lack of motivation, i've had a big breakthrough. I think i lucid dreamed about a 20 minutes before writing this and i wanted to share my experience and if it was a lucid dream or something i don't even know. ---------------------------------- I did nothing to try to lucid dream last night, i was actually really stressed out since i had an essay due the next morning and i procrastinated. So i fell asleep like normal, woke up with an enormous stomach virus from a bunch of pizza I ate. I woke around 5, get ready for a church class at 5:45, and decided not to go to see if i felt better. I didn't feel better around 7 which i when i head off to school, so i just decided to stay home. I lied down in bed from around 8-9 when i read Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge (I'm not sure thats how you spell it ;P) that i had just got in the mail and i read around 50 pages of it and felt a little tired. I started thinking about the homework i would miss and how i'd have to go after school for a bunch of tests, but then my mind drifted to a story. I made up this story off the top of my head and around a half hour in, it got really complex. At one point of the story, i realized i wasn't in bed thinking about the story, i was actually in it. I started thinking that i wanted to try to lucid dream, and then i felt the wierd experience. I saw a bunch of lightning strikes that would happen for a split second and then for another fraction, show the story, then back to the lights and flashes. In the story, it looked zoomed out like not covering my field of view, like a video with the black bars around it, but the video being way smaller. I remember hearing "Oh Gosh, Oh Gosh, Oh Gosh" a few times and i can't recall if i was thinking/saying it in excitement, or if it was some sounds my brain was creating. After about 3-5 seconds, I think i entered the dream. It felt liketurning a video from 240p to 1080p on YT.The quality was super crisp, but i only was in the dream for around a second. The first half of the second i was trying to recollect what just happened, and the other half i saw that the dream was blurring out. I felt half in my bed, and half in my dream. I remembered to either spin or rub my hands, but i couldn't put my hands together before i woke up in my bed. I couldn't remember anything about the dream other than the transition. ---------------------------------- Its amazing to feel the process of entering a lucid dream as i've read all around DV that once you feel it, you'll know it. I'm just baffled that after a month of no progress whatsoever in my DJ or anything really that this happened to me unexpectedly. I was about to lose motivation, but now i'm extremely excited. I have a few questions and stuff: • Was this a lucid dream? • I'm not entirely sure how i did remember i was dreaming, there were no dream signs, i just one second was in a dream, the other i thought about lucid dreaming. • I've tried WILD, and it hasn't been as successful. What method should i try based off what happened? • How many times do you guys randomly think of lucid dreaming? I'm worried that it was a lucky chance that i remembered it out of the blue in my dream and it won't have that happen again. • How do you not get excited about lucid dreaming xD. I didn't waste any time at all trying to maintain the dream as fast as i could, but it ended before i could put my hands together. Thanks for reading, i really appreciate it and all of your comments ^_^

[gab]

Maybe I just don't see it, but did you in your dream realized you are dreaming? If yes, then you had a lucid dream. In any case, hold on to that exciting feeling you have - it will give you motivation and belief, and that's exactly what you need to have LDs.

[Matte87]

Hi! 1: Yes but a very short one I'd say. Just being in a dream and knowing it is one is enough for it to be classified as a LD. No matter how short or fuzzy. 2: It sounds like you incubated a dream. WILD'ing unintentionally. This happens sometimes and is actually great for beginners. Those who are new to WILD usually get too excited to be able to succeed. As you've done it already, you know what to expect and how easy it is! 3: See above 4: From many times a day to only a few. Picking the hobby up and practicing for a while seems to be enough for a few months to have spontaneous DILD's, so don't worry! Just giving it a thought or two before going to bed increases your chances alot though. And daydreaming about it, setting up goals and doing RC's or mantras increases your chances even further. 5: Actually, I still get excited just thinking about it It's an amazing experience, but you will to some degree get used to it. The more lucid dreams you have, the more passive you get. You won't get super excited once you realise it's a dream. Now keep the motivation flowing! Watch movies, daydream and set up goals. Now that you've had one, I know you want more And more shall come! If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask!

[PainZ]

Thanks, really appreciate the advice ^_^