Thread: Hi! I'm John - Did I have a Lucid Dream?

Hello everyone. I am so glad I found this forum. I have been interested in Lucid dreaming for many years now and I believe I have had about two Lucid dreams in my life. I tried to learn how to lucid dream from a book but never really could get the hang of it so I kind of gave up although I have remained interested and always hoped it would just start happening. During this period of time I was trying to learn I had an episode of complete sleep paralysis. I feel like I woke up but couldn't move anything. Freaked me out. It never happened again.

Recently I have wanted to give lucid dreaming another shot and I've been trying to use Binaural beats without success. Although they do put me to sleep pretty well.

I found this website about 3 days ago and I read through some of the members techniques and experiences in the hopes that I can start having Lucid dreams. This brings me to my question.

Last night I had a vivid dream, possibly a lucid dream. I walked into a hospital. I went down a hall but the lights got dimmer and dimmer until it was almost black darkness. This seemed off to me. A woman and her child started to follow me down the hallway. After turning a corner into the darkness I decided to walk back out the way I came, I now knew something was not right about this scene.I told the lady is really dark in there. Then for some reason a thought occurred to me that I might be dreaming so I looked at my hand to see if I could stick my finger through my palm. (I read that someone on this website did this as a dream check) My finger went through my palm and all of a sudden I said to myslef in my dream John you are dreaming! Wake up and become lucid! I then tried to conjure up a friend to see if they would appear but things got static and I woke up! I was so mad, If I was lucid it was just for moments. I swear when I acknowledged in the dream that I was dreaming It was as if I truly felt like I knew exactly that I was trying to lucid dream and succeeding. It seemed so vivid. I was disappointed I woke up so soon and couldn't control the dream. Does this sound like I did have a lucid dream or maybe it was just a vivid dream where I told myself I was dreaming?

for the past few nights I go to sleep saying some mantras like tonight I will have many lucid dreams, another technique i learned here. The one thing I did last night was try to remember a dream the night before. Thats something I read is a good technique to help your chances.

Anyway I'm rambling now. I'm hoping that what I had was indeed a real Lucid dream and I just lost control from the excitement and woke up way too soon. I want to become very proficient at Lucid dreaming and I am hoping that if I already have had a small one after trying for a couple weeks thats a good sign Im on the right path.

Thanks for listening!