Thread: I'm New And Is This Typical?

Hello,

I'm obviously new to this forum. I'm 17 years old, but I do recall many experiences with "lucid" dreams before. At that time I believed that me controlling my dreams was an arbitrary occurence that happend to other people just as often. I remember that a few years ago I would have mutiple nightmares set in different scenarios and whenever I didn't like the situation I was in during my dream, I would realize that I was dreaming and blink really hard in the dream and I would magically be transported to another dream, usually another nightmare but I controlled my dreams. For a few weeks I would look forward to having those dreams because it was an exciting experience.

Yesterday night on the [adultswim] website someone posted a link to his website. I read through it and learned an abundant amount of information. I used the techniques that I learned that very night such as repeating "When I wake up I will remember my dreams" before I fell asleep, during my dream the car I was driving stopped functioning which is when I decided it was a dream, I then became distracted and continued to soulessly go through the motions of the dream, until I saw a floating eye. The eye wasn't gruesome, by any means, in fact it was somewhat cartoonish, which is when I wholeheardly decided during the dream that IT WAS A DREAM. Like this website said, however, I became overly excited and woke up.

When I woke up I went backwards in my dream and remembered all of it (which I suppose would technically be aproximately 3 dreams).

Assuming this counts as my first "lucid" dream, I wrote it down as my first entry. Did I really have a "lucid" dream? It seems to me that this is my first induced L.D. but what do more experienced lucid dreamers have to say? Are these immediate results typical, or am I simply being overzealous?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the forum! We're happy you're here .

Originally Posted by HgSilver

Assuming this counts as my first "lucid" dream, I wrote it down as my first entry. Did I really have a "lucid" dream? It seems to me that this is my first induced L.D. but what do more experienced lucid dreamers have to say? Are these immediate results typical, or am I simply being overzealous? [/b]

Yes, it was a lucid dream :bravo:.

Originally Posted by HgSilver

I'm obviously new to this forum. I'm 17 years old, but I do recall many experiences with "lucid" dreams before. At that time I believed that me controlling my dreams was an arbitrary occurence that happend to other people just as often. I remember that a few years ago I would have mutiple nightmares set in different scenarios and whenever I didn't like the situation I was in during my dream, I would realize that I was dreaming and blink really hard in the dream and I would magically be transported to another dream, usually another nightmare but I controlled my dreams. For a few weeks I would look forward to having those dreams because it was an exciting experience.[/b]

You seem to be a natural lucid dreamer with a lot of experiences. Congratulation!

Originally Posted by Likenight

Welcome to the forum! We're happy you're here .
Yes, it was a lucid dream :bravo:.
You seem to be a natural lucid dreamer with a lot of experiences. Congratulation!
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That is truly encouraging to hear. I still however fear any negative repercussions from inducing "lucid" dreams.

Originally Posted by HgSilver

I still however fear any negative repercussions from inducing "lucid" dreams.
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There aren't any. At all. The only negative side-effect of inducing lucid dreams is loss of sleep. And even then, that's only if you decide to use WBTB and wake yourself up deliberately. A lot of newcomers to the forum seem to have the same concern, being that there's some negative side-effects of lucid dreaming. When I told my father about my attempts to lucid dream, he raised a similar concern. Quite frankly, I have no idea whatsoever where this idea comes from. It seems to be quite common...

But no. As far as I'm aware, there are no negative side-effects of lucid dream induction.

Repercussions... interesting word, I'm sorry I haven't heard it before so I don't know what it means.

Apart from that, I think you are going to be awesome at lucid dreaming, and should be able to learn it quickly. I kinda envy you, but learning is also very fun (especially for someone like me who started off with no dream recall, and am now remembering 2 a night).

Happy adventuring! -Stoat

Originally Posted by HgSilver

Assuming this counts as my first "lucid" dream, I wrote it down as my first entry. Did I really have a "lucid" dream? It seems to me that this is my first induced L.D. but what do more experienced lucid dreamers have to say? Are these immediate results typical, or am I simply being overzealous?
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First off, Welcome to the forum!

This was absolutely a lucid dream, as you knew you were dreaming, so congratulations :bravo:. That is all there is to it, if you know you are dreaming you are lucid. Also, yes having immediate results is not at all rare. While this didn't happen to me, many people, upon learning what LDing is, do a technique, and since it is so new and cool to them, it for some reason works instantaneously.

Originally Posted by HgSilver

Hello,

I'm obviously new to this forum. I'm 17 years old, but I do recall many experiences with "lucid" dreams before. At that time I believed that me controlling my dreams was an arbitrary occurence that happend to other people just as often. I remember that a few years ago I would have mutiple nightmares set in different scenarios and whenever I didn't like the situation I was in during my dream, I would realize that I was dreaming and blink really hard in the dream and I would magically be transported to another dream, usually another nightmare but I controlled my dreams. For a few weeks I would look forward to having those dreams because it was an exciting experience.

Yesterday night on the [adultswim] website someone posted a link to his website. I read through it and learned an abundant amount of information. I used the techniques that I learned that very night such as repeating "When I wake up I will remember my dreams" before I fell asleep, during my dream the car I was driving stopped functioning which is when I decided it was a dream, I then became distracted and continued to soulessly go through the motions of the dream, until I saw a floating eye. The eye wasn't gruesome, by any means, in fact it was somewhat cartoonish, which is when I wholeheardly decided during the dream that IT WAS A DREAM. Like this website said, however, I became overly excited and woke up.

When I woke up I went backwards in my dream and remembered all of it (which I suppose would technically be aproximately 3 dreams).

Assuming this counts as my first "lucid" dream, I wrote it down as my first entry. Did I really have a "lucid" dream? It seems to me that this is my first induced L.D. but what do more experienced lucid dreamers have to say? Are these immediate results typical, or am I simply being overzealous?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
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This was indeed a lucid dream. Congratulations. I am sure that with work, you will have many more successes. Also, I would like to agree with The Blue Meanine, in that there are no true negative reprocussions to LDing. It can obviously be a tiring undertaking, but there aren't any other negative aspects.

Hmmm... No offense, but I can't really see how anyone could be scared of lucid dreaming. It can only bring good things, even if you don't get far. However, if you mean the effects of repeatedly waking yourself up in rem sleep, you can end up tired, or if you time it right, you can wake up feeling really refreshed. I find I feel pretty good after a good night with lots of rem sleep.

I think what he means by "fear" is that he "thinks but not knows", not that he is scared. Of course, if I am wrong, excuse me HqSilver.
Also, waking up in REM sleep ain't too bad. I usually aim to WBTB on most days where the next day isn't big, and practically always during the weekends!

Yeah, I know. But I messed it up last night, woke up at wrong times, fell asleep by mistake. I'm pretty messed today. I usually feel great after a lucid though...

well today i didnt have work so i woke up after 5 hours and fell back asleep, remembering 4 dreams for the night.
im still a n00b so thats kinda my record. but sadly for the next 5 days i cant as i have to be up at 5am anyway for work lol

i wish i could naturally do that, maybe i do, i havent had a nightmare in a long time and a few dreams i can remember i lucidly controlled, but alas again, i cant control when i can do it. which is what im hoping to achievbe after i increwase my dream recall lol

Smegal, don't worry, the most dreams I have ever remembered in 1 night is 3.... or 4 if you include a flash. I find that if I try to remember my dreams, I can remember any dream I want, though now instead of trying to remember, I use the oppurtunity to either do a WBTB, WILD, TTR (try to remember ) or..... just wake up.