So Close....

**Dannflor** · 03-16-2013 06:03 PM

So I've had lucid dreaming on the mind lately... been trying different methods without success. However, last night has been the closest I've ever come. All throughout the previous day I had been repeating the mantra "I am going to have a lucid dream" at periodic times throughout the day. Now I had this dream, which I now remember almost nothing about, but all I know is that it was exceptionally vivid and real, I'm not sure what alerted me to the fact it was dream but something did. Once I found out it was a dream I automatically started repeating the mantra I had been saying earlier in the day. Unfortunately, at that moment, I woke up. :/

**JoannaB** · 03-16-2013 07:19 PM

Why do you say "So Close ..." and not "I did it!"? If you were aware that it was a dream even for a split second moment, then that counts as your first lucid dream. A moderator on this forum gab once cautioned us that we need to be careful not to send confusing signals like this to our minds: instead of telling it that this was just right and more of that please, you are now telling it that this was not it. The first lucid dream is often short like this. Congrats on your first lucid dream!

**Dannflor** · 03-16-2013 07:35 PM

Thanks for the encouragement, I think I was over thinking the definition of a lucid dream.

My problem is, I have had a few instances sorta like what happened last night before. Where I perform a RC or somehow realize I'm in a dream. My problem, is that the instance I tell myself I am now lucid, my dream fades away and I wake up.

**gab** · 03-16-2013 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by Dannflor

...I'm not sure what alerted me to the fact it was dream but something did. Once I found out it was a dream ...

Congrats, that was your first lucid dream. Say thank you to your mind, because it got you lucid. Your mantra had paid off.

You accomplished something huge, now you just need to do it again and again and they will get longer with experience.

Try adding some checks of reality (RCs) and awareness to your mantra to have better chance of another LD.

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