Thread: Was I lucid for a moment?

Hi people!

After 2 weeks of remembering dreams (I really really improved it after one or two days!) tonight I think I became lucid for a second! But you should decide:

Before I went sleep, I was finally focusing my learning on become lucid. Last weeks it was only about remembering my dreams. When I get to bed, I was saying to myself "I'm gonna remember every dream" or something like that... I didn't even tried to ludic dream.

I had a dream, and sudennly, I don't know why, I said to myself I should make reality check. I never made much reality checks in reality. To me, I'm still not that far in my learning so I don't do it. Without ANY doubt, I knew I'm dreaming. And then it started...

I started to focus on enviroment around me, and in the middle of my view I started to see some "dots" or something that started to make it from "Normal dream" to "lucid". I had that unbelievable, but positive feeling all over my body, it took just second and I know I was so damn exciting, and then I woke up!

Did my lucid dream starts? What do you see (exactly please, describe it) after you realize you're dreaming?

I don't know why, but I was sooo scared when I woke up. I know, there's nothing to be afraid of, but it was new experience for me, so...

Hmm...it does sound to me like you were lucid for a second, but the big question is: did you realise that everything around you was a dream? You can be bowled over by what you're seeing, and not realise it's a dream, thus you're not lucid.
When i go lucid it's like everything becomes clearer, and i'm certain of myself, the way i am in real life.
btw, it can feel scary at first, but don't let that put you off...just keep at it!
Also, now you have an idea what it feels like, try to focus on that feeling as you drift off to sleep, it might help.

Yes, I was sure that I was dreaming! That's when I focused on enviroment around me and started to see it clearer, and then I woke up :-(

Thanks for info, now I try to focus on that feeling.

As long as you realized you were in a dream, while knowing that you were dreaming, that means you were lucid at that point, so congratulations.

Sounds Lucid to me!

Pretty similar to my first (..... and only ) lucid dream.


Congratz!

In my first LD I didn't intend to and I didn't do any RC as well, just knew I was lucid. Congratz

I have to keep this vbreif cuz its 5:20 in the morngin and i gotta get ready for school...I came accorss the sight last night and i started my dream logg, my alarm clock didnt go off last night (i had it set up for 4.5hrs into sleep) to hopefully remember a dream unfortunatly i wokeup about 6hours into sleep i belive in the middle of REM bcuz i accuily rememebered my dream! It wasnt very exciting or anything but i wrote the details down...But this is were my question comes into part. I only had another 2-30 minutes to sleep so i desicded to try (WILD) i know you are supposed to be awake for a little first and such but i figureed it was worth a try. ..i find that its hard not to think..the dumbest most random thoughs come into my mind lol. Then this is when-It happened-
It happened 2 times ina row..i could feel myself in bed but i started to more or less day dream. But i wasnt controling what anyone was saying and makeing myself a footbal star or anything my teacher was kinda yelling at me...AS soon as i realized it was a dream it was like the dream whent from auto to ME controling it and i had my teacher jus stoped talking and it was like i had no idea what to make her say...so it wasnt very realisit...this all happened (me noticing and not being abel to think of anything for her to say) within like 2seconds then i woke up...(this dream was also not very vivid more like a day dream on autopilot. ) I wanted to know what this was...Also, When you guys r lucid, do are people like realisitic? Or do you have to think and make them say/move/ do whatever you know....Or dose it just happen...(you just think, i want this person to be in a good mood and they are like heyyyyyy joee! and you can have a convorsation with them?) Or you control there every move basicly like a doll..(becuase that wouldnt be very cool) Please get back, im a very interested member lookin 2 become a expert ^_~

Originally posted by ShYne123
I have to keep this vbreif cuz its 5:20 in the morngin and i gotta get ready for school...I came accorss the sight last night and i started my dream logg, my alarm clock didnt go off last night (i had it set up for 4.5hrs into sleep) to hopefully remember a dream unfortunatly i wokeup about 6hours into sleep i belive in the middle of REM bcuz i accuily rememebered my dream! It wasnt very exciting or anything but i wrote the details down...But this is were my question comes into part. I only had another 2-30 minutes to sleep so i desicded to try (WILD) i know you are supposed to be awake for a little first and such but i figureed it was worth a try. ..i find that its hard not to think..the dumbest most random thoughs come into my mind lol. Then this is when-It happened-
It happened 2 times ina row..i could feel myself in bed but i started to more or less day dream. But i wasnt controling what anyone was saying and makeing myself a footbal star or anything my teacher was kinda yelling at me...AS soon as i realized it was a dream it was like the dream whent from auto to ME controling it and i had my teacher jus stoped talking and it was like i had no idea what to make her say...so it wasnt very realisit...this all happened (me noticing and not being abel to think of anything for her to say) within like 2seconds then i woke up...(this dream was also not very vivid more like a day dream on autopilot. ) I wanted to know what this was...Also, When you guys r lucid, do are people like realisitic? Or do you have to think and make them say/move/ do whatever you know....Or dose it just happen...(you just think, i want this person to be in a good mood and they are like heyyyyyy joee! and you can have a convorsation with them?) Or you control there every move basicly like a doll..(becuase that wouldnt be very cool) Please get back, im a very interested member lookin 2 become a expert ^_~

I'm not sure why you decided to ask your question by replying to this thread, but anyway.

There aren't really any rules on how people act in your dreams, just like there aren't any rules on most other things, seeing as your dreams are created by your subconcious, which makes anything possible as long as you can imagine it.
So although people in lucid dreams usually act as if they have their own personalities, it is possible that you simply expected to control everything, including the things DCs said, when you turned lucid, and so got that to happen. Usually though, your subconcious creates dream characters' personalities.

btw Shyne... Do you have dyslexia? >.>

Yeah.

Although there was not time for the complete thought "I am dreaming" to entirely arise and transpire, still we have that ecstatic moment of Lucid Realization, and, yes, that counts.

Next time there should be a bit more time.

In preparation for that time... a possibly very short time... prepare a Lucid Dream Checklist, with items arranged in matter of priority. For instance, if I thought that I could do only one thing in a Lucid Dream, I would do a quick Aum (or OM, as some people say), but if the dream continues, then onto the next item of the checklist.

It is my advice to keep 'control' down to ordinary human choices. If you don't like the Dream Scene, then leave it. Don't change it. You see, I think that the Higher Mind interprets a very aggressive Dream Control, that is where the Dreamer takes it upon himself to destroy and obliterate Dream Content... well, the Higher Mind might see that as an Attack. So, don't destroy dream scenes and blast dream content, but simply move about in the Astral World. If you don't like one place, or one set of people, then pick up and fly away. Some people do a 'spin' and when they stop, they are instantly at a new, better, higher Dream Scene.

Years ago I had a Dream Checklist that was easy to remember -- S F L A (I would remember San Francisco Los Angeles) it stood for STOP FOCUS LOTUS AUM. Stop means to stop the ordinary Dream Scene action. One can't really begin a Checklist until one stops what one was doing beforehand. One must think that as important as the Ordinary Dream may have been, that this Lucid Occassion calls for some higher Priorities, that is, this very checklist and the items on it. Focus is a moment to intensify one's Lucidity. Traditionally, now, people often take a moment to look at one's hands. Often they appear distorted. Oddly, in my last Lucid Dream the air around my hands became like black space and I saw my hands as translucent webs... small webs... not with five fingers but only three coming from the wrist, like a Cross with the finger-beams joined by a web of skin. They seemed more like antennas then hands.

Lotus is the reminder that the Lotus Position avails the best flying and levitating. And AUM is the most powerful of Mantras and if anything could take one to the next level, it is entoning or chanting the AUM.

Thank you both for your reply's So much. Lol no i dont belive i am dislexic, i just woke up like 2minutes before i typed that and i was shivering like whoa it was very cold. Once again thank you for replys, i am going to keep trying i wont give up. I hope my lucid dreams get clearer as they go on. If i could be lucied During a dream as clear as the one i woke up during first and wrote about in my journal...even though it was a boring dream i could have so much fun. Thanks.