Thread: My first experience, Was that Lucid Dreaming?

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Hi there. It looks like you had an out-of-body experience or an OBE. It was indeed a lucid dream. For me, OBE is simply a lucid dream where, in the dream, you go out of your body. Many times it may seem like it is happening in real life when it's just a dream that is mimicking the last environment before you went to bed.

Congratulations on the lucid! It will get much better the more you try and the more you have them. If you wanna know more about those types of dreams, you can check out the Beyond Dreaming section of the forum, though keep in mind their connection to spiritual things and aspects should be taken very carefully and with discretion since they are debatable

But anyway, a lucid dream is simply a dream where you realize you are dreaming. Yes you were dreaming, and yes you knew you were dreaming while it was happening, so congrats!

If you need any help with anything else, don't be afraid to post in the forum or send a message. Seeya!

Thanks so much for your reply, I didn't realize that was an OBE, It is very exciting to have this kind of experience before trying any techniques, I was so scared so I didn't enjoy it, but after I woke up I enjoyed remembering what happened and the fact that it happened naturally.

I'm less scared of Lucid Dreaming now after I read some info in the forums here, and I'm trying to do the RC and awareness techniques so I can Lucid Dream someday again.

But knowing that this was an OBE, I'm wondering if the floating body is not a must in Lucid Dreaming, I'd be so glad if it doesn't have to happen, because that part was scary and I couldn't handle staying in the dream because of it, I wanted so much to wake up and I did.
I will read about the spiritual aspects of it, thanks for the link.

I had few experiences before with my floating body in a dream, I realized I was dreaming but only to wake up within the dream not for real so I wasn't really conscious, I kept waking up many times in the same dream, it was like I had a recurring dreams of lucidity within a dream, but back then I didn't even know about Lucid dreaming.

This dream always confuse me, because of waking up many times within it, when I wake up it is hard to tell if I really had this dream before or I just think so because I woke up within it. But I'm sure it happened at least 2 times with slight difference in the details.

Again thanks so much for your reply.

Oh absolutely, you don't need the floating part or something for it to be lucid. Just knowing it is a dream is what makes it lucid. As for the OBE thing, you don't have to attach spiritual meaning to it, I personally do not. However many people do, and that's okay since it has different importance to each of us.

good luck!

Well, I believe that (according to my religion) our souls leave our bodies when we fall asleep, and they do too when we die but they don't return like in sleep, probably in OBE you can feel or observe this happening.
It is probably safe but I would need to overcome a deep fear of dying before I try OBE by will, I think Lucid dreaming is much less scary and more interesting.