My first experience, Was that Lucid Dreaming?

Hi, I'm new here, I just had a short experience this morning that I would like to share and hear your opinions about, please excuse me if I mention useless details, it is just that I don't know yet what is important and what is not so I'll tell the whole history.

I've heard about Lucid Dreaming years ago and I never had the courage to try, maybe it is an unreasonable fear but I just didn't dare.

Lately I've been more curious about it, but still I didn't read any techniques, just the general idea. Then yesterday I looked it up again and only read some techniques for reality check, that's all, and I decided that soon I will read more and someday I will have the courage to try.

Then at night, I went to bed early and woke up before I get enough sleep, stayed up for few hours then went back to bed when I felt weak but wasn't really sleepy.

Since I was a little kid, I can't sleep without some visualizing for somethings I wish to happen or whatever ideas come to my mind, this time I visualized nothing special, but for a few seconds I recalled what I read about reality check and Lucid Dreaming, and went back to my visualizations, anyway I dunno when did I fell asleep, but I know it didn't last for long, I can tell for sure that the time between I went to bed and my wake up, was less than 45 minutes, and I never fall asleep immediately.

I remember first thing was feeling paralyzed, it is not the first time it happens to me, so I was aware it is related to dreaming and tried to stop the failed attempts of moving my leg and relax.

Then I remember felt like my body was moving up (in my mind) without being able to control or stop it when I'm aware that my body is still on my bed, and I had some dreams about that before but they were that kind of dreams within dreams when I wasn't aware I was dreaming for real.

This time I was conscious, it was like I'm watching something happening to someone else but wasn't very clear, and I remembered (in the dream) what I read about Lucid Dreaming and thought it might be it and I freaked out, also the idea of dying crossed my mind for an instant, because I relate dying to souls going up out of body, then I decided I'm dreaming and I'm going out of it (I read that you can get out when you want so I believed I can) and I got out and woke up, I think all that happened in few seconds or it felt so.

After waking up I felt so excited and happy and my fear disappeared, I wrote some notes in a notebook about what I experienced (I never did that before) planning to go back to bed for a normal sleep, but I couldn't sleep, I feel active and my mind is so clear, it feels like I had a full sleep and not feeling sleepy anymore, so I decided to look for some forums about Lucid Dreaming and look for advice.

A side note: I'm using subliminal affirmations for 2 weeks now, and I only added some about remembering my dreams that day before I sleep, but nothing was about Lucid Dreaming, just about remembering my dreams because I have trouble remembering them lately.

Anyway sorry for the long post, and whatever what I experienced is called, I know that getting out of the dream easily when I wanted to made me less afraid of trying to Lucid Dream willingly.

What do you think? Was that Lucid Dreaming?

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: Beyond Dreaming

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!

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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!

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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.

:D 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.