Hey guys, I'm both new to the forum and new to LDing, my friend showed me a few links about the whole concept of LDing and I thought that it might be interesting, because I have never really experienced anything but fear in a dream that I remember.

My friend gave me a link to an mp3 that was on the internet, called "Hemi-sync - Lucid Dreaming Series" , so I downloaded that file which was ~180 megs, 1 hour 30 minutes and went to bed with my headphones on and that file playing.

I followed the mp3, doing what the guy said to. I got to the 1-10 relaxation part and thought it was awesome, the numbness feeling was cool. I kept at it, and now the guy was going to count from 11-20, and at 20 I would fall asleep and start dreaming. I am not really sure of the number, but I think that it was around 15 that I started feeling strange. Strange as it had never happened to me before. It was like the bed was "shaking" I guess, just a bit. Afterwards it was as if the bed under me had dissapeared. I am not sure if it was supposed to be like this, but I went along with it. Next, it was like I was slowly falling, not the kind of falling in nightmares, but just a slow fall. When the guy hit twenty I couldn't tell where my arms and legs were, so I assumed that I was doing okay, but I still hadn't fallen asleep. Now at this time I was getting a sense that I should fall asleep pretty fast, or I would miss something. I know that wasn't the right way of thinking but I guess it's natural. After that I just lay there and I felt the falling again, and this time my eyes opened. It wasn't me that opened them, so I thought I was in a dream, or I was doing something strange. Well as it turned out I looked at my clock and I wasn't in a dream, it was 10:26. Afterwards I lay there in bed listening to the rest of the file and nothing really happened.

I have a few questions:

Did I do something wrong? As in should I have tried something other than the mp3? Did I do something wrong while in bed?

What is a typical reaction to this, so that I can see how I am doing?

What if I can't fall asleep when I am supposed to? Should I have tried this file later, when I'm more tired?

Thanks for reading this, and right after the file I went to bed for real and I remembered parts of my first dream in about 5 years, I have a lot of trouble remembering dreams!