Just had my first intentional lucid dream :)

[Nobylspoon]

Hello all. I'm really glad I discovered this site, I have read some much valuable information on here and I look forward to becoming a part of this community! I had two lucid dreams when I was a kid but they were both random and ages ago. The first one I tried to fly. I flew out my bedroom window but when I turned, my body turned but I still kept moving in the same direction until I slammed into a tree and woke up. My brother had told me flying in dreams was hard but I never believed him until that night. 4 days ago I decided to research the subject. I ordered Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming from Amazon (and received same day delivery!). I am currently on Ch4 of this fantastic book. My first night of trying, I used an Android app. It was one of those brainwave ones. It seemed to help with dream recall (remembered 4 that night) but that was about all. The next two nights I used some MP3s I found on this site but still nothing. Then last night, without any audio aid, I had my first intentional lucid dream. My dreamsign was my front door. I have two deadbolts that I lock every night. However, in my dream there were three deadbolts. I didn't notice at first, I just locked all three. I rechecked the locks after turning them and saw they were unlocked again. Still didn't catch on. I relocked the first two and as I was locking the third I noticed that anyone on the other side of the door could see into my apartment when the deadbolt wasn't set due to a 1" gap between the door and frame. Then it clicked that this couldn't be real. I'm too paranoid to have not noticed something like that in real life! I pinched my nose shut and breathed in and realized I WAS DREAMING! Prior to becoming lucid my dream lacked color but the moment I became aware everything was in full color. It wasn't HD quality, was more like standard definition (DVD quality). I decided to give flying a second chance. I was going to walk outside to take flight but remembering this was all a dream I lifted up, closed my eyes and passed through the wall and took flight over some town (I believe this was a town from a show I watched that did some aerial shots). After a few minutes I landed and tried to manipulate my environment but it seems that this takes a bit more concentration. I will have to practice this more next time. Unfortunately, it was cut short when my alarm clock went off this morning I'm officially hooked. I can't wait for my next one!

[gab]

Welcome to Dreamviews, Nobylspoon! Congratulations to your first intentional LD! That was a pretty good one. The level of control is not always the same in lucid dreams. But you can check out some guides about control. And stabilizing the dream will help you make it longer and many times more vivid. Here is a collection of techniques that will help you to get a DILD (when in regular dream you realize you are dreaming). So have fun and Happy dreams

[Robot_Butler]

Congratulations! That sounds like a fun first lucid dream. I can't believe you did everything right, and were able to think so clearly. Hopefully this is the first of many.