Thread: Hello :) New Member here with my latest experience inside!

Hi everyone, I haven't introduced myself yet, Im Jake and I am very intrigued by Lucid Dreaming. I've had them naturally as a child and have read about them for years but just now, in the past few months have become interested in learning how to produce them on command. I had a LD about 6 months ago that got me interested again and in the past month I have had 2 Lucid Dreams since lurking DV, one being and DILD that was pretty cool; I was able to conjure a few items but wasn't able to stay in it for too long. My latest was a WILD which I will talk more about now since this occurred last night. My main goal is to learn how to have LD's on command and how to stabilize them where they will last longer so I can explore my dreamworld more. Written below is my LD from last night:

OK, so last night I woke up in the middle of the night and had to use the restroom. So I figured I might as well try to WILD since I had woken up. So I lay back down and begin to relax and drift off, I soon forget what I am trying to do and luckily wake back up shortly after nodding off. Then I remember reading about "the finger technique", where you tap your index and middle fingers softly, one after the other. So I begin tapping my fingers and the next moment my eyes are open and Im still in my bed except for the fact that I hear a radio softly playing in the background. Well immediately I recognize that there is no radio in my room so I plug my nose and do a reality check. While holding my nose I can still breath so I deduce that I was dreaming! This is where it gets lame though. As soon as I reality check and realize it's a dream, I get super excited and can actually feel my heart beating very hard for a second and the dream immediately starts to fade away. At this point, I'm not even out of my bed yet in the dream, Im still laying down. I try to stabilize the dream but it doesn't work and I wake up. I was definitely lucid for a moment and the WILD/FILD technique worked even though it was really short lasted.

After waking up I tried again but was too tired and drifted off before I could prepare myself. This does give me hope though, it tells me that I am getting better at it and getting better at recognizing good times to try different techniques Just thought I'd share.

Any feedback would be great and I always welcome advice!