Hello fellow lucid dreamers!!!

[Pannhidh]

I know there are many other posts like this around here, I just want to introduce myself. All of this is actually quite new to me... I was searching the web for information on sleep and dreaming, it is so fascinating and makes me enjoy my sleeping hours a lot more. It was a coincidence really, that I stumbled over a Lucid Dreaming "how to" FAQ. I had never heard of it before and became interested, so I read all I could find and finally found "Dream Views", so I went back today and registered. Tonight I tried having a lucid dream (even though it is a bit early), I tried first the WILD method, it started out allright. First I saw the hypnotising patterns and then my body felt paralysed and that was fine, but then my body started to vibrate, and I felt like I was leaving my body. It was quite creepy, so I forced myself to wake up. The secound time the same thing happened, so I gave up and fell asleep instead. I woke up after 5-6 hours and tried again. Closing my eyes this time I started remembering the dreams I had through the night, so I tried to go back to one them. I did not feel any vibrations, but I fell occasionally into dreams without really being aware of it. The moment I became aware of it the dream dissapeared. I have had "unplanned" lucid dreams a few times before, without knowing it was something I could train myself to. But I have never changed the environment of the dream, usually I just knew I was in one, and sometimes decided how the dream ended. The first time this happened I was quite young (5 or 6 years old) and I dreamed that my mother was chasing me with an axe through the supermarket. Dramatic as it sounds, it was really amusing, because I kept saying out loud that there was nothing to worry about: "it is only a dream"... I remember smiling to myself before I woke up. I thought about it a lot at the time and told others about it, which is probably why I still remember it many years later. A couple of years ago I had another lucid dream, but I don't remember it as vividly. It was set as an old western movie, and I changed the dream to prevent someone from being shot. I am not sure, but I don't recall actually being in the dream myself, I was sort of watching and controlling it from the outside. I don't know if that is even possible... Freud thought we are all the characters in our own dreams......

[nina]

Welcome to the forum!! Did you read the WILD tutorial? To me it sounds like you were getting quite far if you were feeling those vibrations. I understand how it can be startling at first, when it's something you have never experienced before but you can't let it scare you away. The vibrational stage is one of the KEY stages to successfully having a WILD and since you got so far, twice, on your first attempt I think that you might just be a natural and should definitely try it again. If you have questions or concerns about WILD feel free to PM me because I am quite familiar with all the stages...most of my LDs come from WILDs. As to Freud's comment, I think we CAN be multiple DCs in our dreams...but I certainly don't think we are every DC in all our dreams. I think our mind sort of creates people to 'populate' our dreamscapes at times. Alot of times I don't even know who my DCs are. Oh and btw DC=dream character Anyways, good luck and PM me if you have any questions or anything -nina

[Mystical_Journey]

[nesgirl119]

Welcome to the forum!