Low awareness?

[jordan2410]

Hi everyone!i am new here,i first learned about lucid dreams a couple of days ago and like many others i try to have one!so,today,i was lying down to my bed,and constantly thinking,"i am going to dream,and i will know it's a dream,and i ll become lucid" ..eventually,this happened..i had a couple of false awakenings,did a reality check,without really thinking to,it was a part of the dream i suppose,and i understood it was a dream..but nothing vivid,the vision was still blurry,and my dream wanted me to think i had freedom by granting me the skill to do great stuff,but without me thinking that i wanted to do them..now i want to ask 2 things,is there some matter with my awareness,and could i get over this?maybe MILD techniques dont work for me,should i change to WILD? and another one ,while in my bedroom,dreaming,i saw a mirror.first i was afraid to look at it,because i had read that a mirror represents ones opinion about oneself in a dream,and that one could got scared if saw something ugly.but curiosity took over me,and i looked,and i saw a fuckin monster,ugly,scary,and rotten.. i want to ask,this whole mirror thing isn;t something stable isn't it?i mean,i dont feel that way about myself,maybe this symbolism is wrong,i dont know...thank you

[Vortaix]

you only expected to see a monster in a mirror and so you did.. anything you expect , or think that will happen, actually happens in a dream world.. You can use mirrors like teleports, doors, walk through them, anything you imagine is possible.. p.s. Welcome to dreamviews pal , i hope you become a great lucid dreamer ..

[jordan2410]

thank you! i thought so about the mirror,but i was kinda freaked out..is there any chance that i gained lucidity and lost it?what i remember clearly is checking if i could breathe with my nose closed and i could..this phase was clear to me,and tried to walk to get out of the room,and then everything took its own path..i cant separate if it 's true or not

[Zoth]

Welcome. In your first lucids, it's very common to experienced low awareness, which tends to make the scenario blurry, your logical thinking "low" or the dream extremely unstable and short/loose lucidity and going dreamwalking mode again. Also, remember that you're still in a dream which explains why some things seem to be out of control (at least until you reach higher lucidity). As referred by vortaix, your expectations also play a big role in here. A last piece of advice: take a month or two before you consider switching to another technique. This is because lucid dreaming techniques are largely affected by habits, so if you change habits every week, then your brain won't get used to the way you're trying to attain lucidity. The best way to do this is always keeping some factors regular no matter what technique you use: - loads of reality checks per day:don't just do the reality check, make sure you ask yourself if you're dreaming and try to answer the question by looking around; - Maintaining a regular sleeping schedule: can't stress this enough. If you get urself used to doing WBTB's at the same time, even when you go to bed later or wake up earlier, your brain will more likely to be "focused" around these hours. The advantages of this is that you might wake up in a more natural way, increasing recall results, or suddenly become more aware in the middle of your REM stage, which can make you lucid; - For last, residual memory is important about MILD: try to determine 4-5 times a day where you can stop, repeat your mantra/become aware of your ld intentions for 5minutes. If you keep doing this for weeks, your brain will get used to the routine, which is the key to fetch the habit into your dreams. Good luck

[snoop]

A lot of what you hear about dreams is really a result of just being the way you expect it to be, which is just perpetuated by the fact that these things are widespread and making more people expect it, lol. Vortaix is 100% right, I wouldn't be too worried if I were you. I've looked in a mirror more than once in my dreams, and I always just saw myself, even after reading that you should never look in one (I did the same thing on acid, I guess I'm just a rebel d: ). Dreams are what you expect, but not what you half way expect or want to expect, it's what you truly deep-down expect, if you know what I mean. In any case, welcome to the site, and happy lucids

[jordan2410]

thank you very much for the advice and the welcoming!zoth00 by saying ld intentions you mean like "i want to make superhuman actions" or something like this?