Christmas morning

**whatthefolk** · 12-26-2012 01:27 AM

Christmas morning, I'm unwrapping presents. The dog is there, the family, the friends, everyone. I'm unwrapping when I suddenly notice the carpet below me. The patterns are odd. Then I noticed the whole room. The old windows, the lighting, the stairs; I realized that I was in my old home from when I was 5 and that can't be possible. I stand up and I realize I'm dreaming. I tell everyone there that it's a dream but everyone seems just neutrally satisfied. I run outside and see the sky and it's wide and incredibly active. Then everything fades and I feel like I'm getting sucked into the floor and I think I shift to a different dream.

I think that's my first lucid dream ever and I had it this morning. I knew about the concept from movies and such but I never really considered it until right now. And I found this website. Hi. I'm excited. I don't really know anything. I'm Emily. I'll probably end up asking a lot of questions. Thanks in advance for dealing with me.

**MarineRecon** · 12-26-2012 03:52 AM

Wow that's a pretty cool first way to become lucid! Congrats

**SilverJay** · 12-26-2012 04:09 AM

Hey, Emily! It's great to have you here at Dream Views - That's a great experience for a first Lucid. That was a DILD -

We use a lot of slang here on the site, so this'll be helpful: Acronym List - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

If you ever need any help, feel free to ask. Welcome!

**gab** · 12-26-2012 04:24 AM

Welcome to Dreamviews!

I agree, very cool first experience. Congrats to you first lucid!

Here is a Beginner's guide, where you will learn about different ways to induce a lucid dream. The easiest way is DILD - that's what you had. You just realize you are dreaming during regular dream.

Please post your question, or join a class in DV Academy, or both. Happy dreams

**Sivason** · 01-02-2013 09:08 AM

Welcome to Dream Views! This is the place to be for anyone wanting to learn how to lucid dream. The Dream Guide team is here to help you navigate the forum and answer questions. We all have 3 green stars above our avatar. Click on our user name and you can then select private message if you have a question, or you can start new threads. Don't worry about starting threads that have been started before, just try it out, if it ends up in the wrong place one of us can move it for you.

One thing you can do in a post is place a link to another thread. I have done this below. You can click on the colored words to see the new thread. Start with this extra basic one, it will help you read the acronyms in other posts, Help With Acronyms For Complete Beginners

After that one the very first thing you should do is check out basic tutorials. This one covers most of the terms you will see members using in much more depth, so start here, http://www.dreamviews.com/f20/beginn...eaming-124786/

Also be sure to check out the DVA Dream Views Acadamy, click on this link to get there, DV Academy.

Matte , our Dream Guide team leader runs a general lucid dreaming class, and you can join in contests where you gain points for dreams you have. General Lucid Dreaming (Matte87)

Gab , another Dream Guide runs a class that is very valuable to beginners on MILD/DILD, which is by far the best method to start with. DILD (Hukif and gab)

Finally as far as the DVA stuff goes, there is a class on introduction to lucid dreaming. This is a great place if you are just starting out and need a little personal help. Intro Class (OpheliaBlue, RareCola, CanisLucidus, Chimpertainment, Xanous)

I hope to save you some time by giving you a link to a thread we all put together on the topic Sleep Paralysis. There has been so much misinformation and confusion on this topic, that after a few days on the sight, you would surely run into confusing statements refering to SP. Save yourself some frustration and read this post if you want to know about SP, http://www.dreamviews.com/f79/sleep-...lained-136993/

Now, on the lighter side, you may be excited to learn to fly! Here is a thread where people explain how they went about learning to fly, http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/can-u-...u-learn-40468/

Then just for a laugh here is a thread where people list all the things they want to do in an LD. It is mostly light hearted and supposed to be funny, http://www.dreamviews.com/f11/1000-t...-dream-104556/

Have fun and good luck with your dreaming!