First timer! Going to try tonight!

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12-04-2005, 08:51 AM
blindside398

First timer! Going to try tonight!

Well now, I heard about LD a few years ago at an age of 11-12 or so. I'm now 15, and very, very intuiative about everything around me. Will this hurt my chances at LD? Anyways, I've been reading about this for the past 2 hours or so, and I think i'm going to try the MILD method tonight. Oh, first, is it okay if I just fall asleep for the first 4-5 hours? Anyways, I'm fixing to go try it, and I won't be disappointed if it doesn't work, but I do hope it does!

Another thing, A freind of mine last year told me about meditation. I decided I'd try it when I was laying in bed trying to sleep. So, I laid down and after about 20 minutes I felt very very stiff, and didn't really WANT to move. I started to think a LOT more than I normally would... really in fact, I can't describe the feeling too much. Well, after a while I just moved around I think and went to bed. Does that have ANYTHING to do with any of this?

And lastly, should I be using MILD for my first time, is there another better first-timer method? WILD seems complicated... is it?

Thanks all, any information would be greatly appreciated!
12-04-2005, 09:56 AM
evanthebouncy

Me too

Yes it is a wonderful sight, I spent past 2 hours reading it too and will start to tape my daily dreaming entry on a tape recorder. Wish everyone luck.
~_~ sweet dreams to you all :D
12-04-2005, 01:26 PM
Alex D

Re: First timer! Going to try tonight!

First up, welcome to Dreamviews blindside398!

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Well now, I heard about LD a few years ago at an age of 11-12 or so. I'm now 15, and very, very intuiative about everything around me. Will this hurt my chances at LD? [/b]

Hurt it? If anything it will help it!

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Another thing, A freind of mine last year told me about meditation. I decided I'd try it when I was laying in bed trying to sleep. So, I laid down and after about 20 minutes I felt very very stiff, and didn't really WANT to move. I started to think a LOT more than I normally would... really in fact, I can't describe the feeling too much. Well, after a while I just moved around I think and went to bed. Does that have ANYTHING to do with any of this?

Well meditation is said to help with lucid dreaming, so it's all good. Also, the way you were meditating thereis the way that I WILD, so that should help when you start to try WILDing.

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And lastly, should I be using MILD for my first time, is there another better first-timer method? WILD seems complicated... is it?

MILD is fine for a first time try. :) Some people have trouble with it, others don't. The same aplies to all the techniques, it's all a case of finding the one that works for you and not giving up if you don't manage to go it.

Good luck.
12-04-2005, 08:32 PM
blindside398

SUCCESS!!! After my first time trying it, I had TWO LD's!

First off, I was baby sitting for some reason. Well, I realized I never babysit, and so I tried to stick my head through a wall for a reality check. To my amazement... I was in the bathroom! So I knew I was dreaming. Anyways, kids disappeared, and the girl I like appeared ^_^. Imagination is used on this one ;). This lasted about 5-10 minutes.

Next I woke up SEVERAL times in the middle of the night, and I now realise these were dreams, AND I've been getting them alot lately. I'll wake up, walk around my room, and my clock will be next to me on my bed. But I dismiss it as normal. I now remember all the times that's happened, and I now know it's a dream, and not reality, because my clock is across the room! And it shows weird times, like one minute it will show 5:00, and then 2:35. Just stuff like that.

Finally, my best one yet. I was, for some reason, in a department store. In the store I was looking at a bag. I asked myself why I'd be here, and why don't I remember COMING here. So I tried to stick my hand through my other hand, and after about 4 tries it went through! Then I tried holding through my nose, and breathing through it, and it worked! So I knew I was dreaming. This one was the realest one yet. I started walking REALLY fast, because I heard someone on here had done it. It worked like a chair. I confronted everyone in the store, and they all called me King Jimmy :D. So after a while I tried to float, easy, then move around, pretty easy, then fly. Eh, that was a toughy. But I DID manage to get it. After a while I was flying through walls, and around neighborhoods. I found my mom judging a chili contest for some reason, and I started eating the chili, and knocking the bad ones down. Thing here is, they couldn't see me! So it was a lot of fun. This one lasted about 20 minutes.

My method didn't turn out to be WILD, or MILD, but a sort of combination of both. Basically, whn I fell asleep, I started tapping my fingers softly, telling myself I'd have Lucid Dreams, and voila! I did! I'm so excited, and I'm trying it again tonight.

Thanks for all your help guys and gals, this is the GREATEST thing to happen to dreaming!

Oh, and I now realise that I've been able to do this for YEARS, but I never remember them.
I did this time ::).
12-04-2005, 10:13 PM
Hotshot

I am so jealous. The closest thing to a dream that I had this week was that I woke up, and could have sworn it had been snowing in the middle of the night.
12-05-2005, 06:30 AM
blindside398

Heh, going to try again tonight!
12-05-2005, 07:57 AM
Ian

Wow, I'm jealous as well...
12-05-2005, 06:22 PM
Neruo

Wow you are extremely lucky.

I used to have about 1 dream recall a month. I first have to train on my dream recall. Then I hope I will get some LD's. Or remeber them, maybe I allready have had some. Becouse darn I do wake-up about 3 times a night lately. I am sure it has to do with dreaming, but I don't recall anything :(

Hmmm, lucky you =)
12-05-2005, 09:57 PM
adamL28

wow I wish I could do that :shock: I've been trying for months and i'm still a newbie, only had one LD (or semi-LD) and really it wasnt that great. I'd give anything to be able to control my dreams like you can, like everyone says youre very lucky!
12-05-2005, 10:10 PM
blindside398

Heh, "really lucky". I failed to get one last night :(. Oh well, I could tell I was VERY close thouh. I got to hypnagogic imagery, and my mother coughed REALLY loud, and it stirred me. /sigh, oh well.
12-06-2005, 02:47 AM
StickFigure

Damn, I had a feeling you'd get it quick. I think you made every newbie here a little jealous :listenup: . Does this make you proud? :finger: I'd be. But reading that post just gives me at least a LIttle kick of motivation. I've had 3 so far but it certainly didnt come after the 1st try and last 20 minuits. Oh well, Congratulations, Scumbag :mrgreen:
12-06-2005, 03:39 AM
blindside398

Haha, thanks :D. That made me smile, lol. Good luck bud, it will come. And good luck to all of you, it's tons 'o fun :).
12-06-2005, 03:45 AM
dearly

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Heh, \"really lucky\". I failed to get one last night :(. Oh well, I could tell I was VERY close thouh. I got to hypnagogic imagery, and my mother coughed REALLY loud, and it stirred me. /sigh, oh well.

Many people have success on the night after first reading about lucid dreaming. It's a form of "beginners luck."

It could be a couple weeks, or even a couple months, until you have your next lucid dream. In the meantime, just master your dream recall and don't get frustrated or stressed if you go several weeks without another lucid dream. I don’t think you’ll have that problem, though, because you seem to be extremely enthusiastic and chipper about the whole thing, which was admittingly fun to read.

The best way to learn lucid dreaming is like most anything else: practice and patience.

Have fun,

D
12-06-2005, 04:11 AM
blindside398

Thanks, I appreciate it. I'm not bad at dream recall, which truthfully, takes a load off of my shoulders. I'm going to go to bed tonight at 11 (wow), and wake up at 3. I'll probably stay up for an hour or so, then hit the sack again. See if I can't spawn a lucid :). Anyways, I'm really excited to have another, and if it doesn't come soon, then oh well. Thanks for the support everyone, and <3.
12-08-2005, 08:53 PM
wombing

Re: First timer! Going to try tonight!

well, i repeat what every one else said- i envy the ease with which you succeeded.

i just wanted to say that there is NO reason to question your ability to have them. your mom distracted you with a cough, but big deal. each night is a new night. if you start to believe it was only a fluke, and it'll take weeks or months to become proficient, chances are it'll happen. but it doesn't neccessarily have to.

like you said, you've always been able to do them, just not remember them.

i wish you continued success. just wish there was some way for you to give a 20 minute LD to me :D (so far my longest has been closer to 20 seconds :P )