Thread: My first real Lucid

I have had lucid dreams in the past but none as vivid and controlled as this one.

I started out in a normal dream where someone was trying to steal something from my back pack while I was inline some where, I turned and told this person off and then insulted his family which made him charge at me I ducked under him and ran through a door way which led me into a dark room with a huge pool. I jumped into the pool and and found it full of tubes that connect to the pool cleaner. They were trying to wrap around me, this is when I realized I was dreaming. I swam to the edge of the pool and jumped out. Looking around I found I was in a huge room with some stadium like lights across the center of the ceiling, I tried turning them on one at a time using my mind. I found this very difficult they would slowly turn on only to fade back off. Finally when I had some of the lights on, I was thinking what I should do I could think of nothing but the tubes in the pool. So I tried raising them out of the water (this too took a lot of effort) once I had a lot of the tubing out of the water I tried to make shapes I made a circle, a square and then a triangle. At this point I started to lose control and woke up.

All in all it was a good dream. I am some what new to lucid dreaming about two months my lucid dreams in the past have been foggy and much harder to control. I have read alot of people talk about spinning and suggesting things to make conrtolling your dreams easier. Such as saying things like when I walk throught this door I will find a wand or the lights will be on. Only none of this comes to me when I'm lucid. If anyone has tips or tricks about this please let me know. I cant wait to try again!

Hey! Welcome to Dreamviews!

As for dream control, usually spinning helps change the setting (from the football stadium, to the beach, etc.)

It is harder to make something appear right before your eyes because, at first, your brain has a reasonable expectation of realism during a dream.

It would be better to, say, if you wanted ice cream, actually expect it to be behind your back, or at least hope for it to be there, then reach behind you (or somewhere else beyond your field of vision) and grab for the ice cream.

There's a whole forum dedicated to dream control so if you need specific help then you can ask questions there.

Everyone here is polite (you don't get many jerks coming to a forum about dreaming lol ) so don't hesitate to ask questions and such.

Yeah, I remember in my first lucid trying to change the dream scene by spinning... didn't work for me, didn't in my other 2 lucids. What I do, however, is say to myself outloud "When I turn around, I will be in blank" ...all you have to do is fill in the blank. This usually works for me, but people are different.

Great thanks for the help I will try those suggestions

As far as remembering tips for LDs when your actually in the LD, for me, just spending a lot of time reading about dream control and thinking about it while awake helps. My 1st LD w/ control I actually visualized something I had read on DV that had told me to stay calm. It also seems like when I acknowledge that there is a real world seperate from where I am in my LD and that my physical body is asleep in that place, that I can remember things from waking life easier.