My first post. Two lucid dreams + questions

[Ibanez]

Hi This is my first post here on dreamviews. I have been a member here a while but i have not been able to log in until yesterday, so finally i can be a part of this forum I have tried LDing for half a year, but most of the time it haven't been very active. Now when i have my holiday I've started trying again. The technique I'm pracitsing is WILD and my first question is: Is it so good for a newbie to start with such a hard technique? I find it really difficult. Since I started pracising LDing I've got two of them but none on real purpuse. The first I had a regular dream where I was flying over my city and realised I was dreaming. Then I had a false awakening in a dark room, but I knew I was dreaming all the time so I got up and wanted to find a window so I could continue to fly. I found one but it was blocked, but I thought that since this is a dream I would be able to get through, so I ran towards it but right when I hit it I woke up. The other one was when I was trying to WILD but fell asleep unconsciously. I dreamed several nonlucid dreams and then I dreamed that I was in my bed, trying to WILD when my brother came in. I told him about my dreams and he said that he hade dreamt the same things. I got really excited and started to get up from the bed when I felt that I was about to wake up. And if I'm about to wake up, I can't already be awake, I must be dreaming! I managed to continue sleeping, and once again I had a FA in a dark room. In fact the whole house was dark, but i found the exit and before I opened the door I imagined it would be daylight and said "let there be light!", hehe. It was dusk so it worked 50 % I walked around in the garden and saw a bird with a strange sound that frightened me for a second. Then I woke up. I have three questions about my lucid dreams: 1. Why do I instantly after I've become aware that I'm dreaming, waking up in a dark room? It's not my room, just a random dark room. 2. In the second dream, my body felt ultralight. That was kinda annoying because i fell several times and it was hard to get up and I couldn't move especially fast. How do I prevent that? 3. I wanted to make my dream more real so I rubbed my hands, but I didn't notice much difference. I could see details like the leaves on the trees, but if I remember it correctly I didn't think very clear. And a last question, what does "post a poll" mean? Hope my post wasn't too long

[Redrivertears]

Hey there, Lets see if I can answer some of those questions 1) Most likely, because while you're lucid, you're very close to being awake. Now even while sleeping, the body still gets external stimuli, which are being worked into our dreams. Suppose that a cat is miauwing at night, you might dream of cats. Suppose that a baby is crying, you might dream that you need to rescue a baby. The thing is, it isn't just sounds that get worked into our dreams. Touches, tastes... and even visuals. Because you are 'in the dark' (something which you notice even with your eyelids closed), your very likely to dream that you're in the dark too, especially when you're so close to awakening and sleeping so lightly. This could be an explanation. Mind you, its always a matter of could be, in these cases, as just the same you could be dreaming you're talking a walk through the sun 2) Here it's a matter of learning dreamcontrol, I think. If you want to make something happen, or prevent something from happening in your dream, you're exercising control over your dream. Do a search on the forum for more information. In short though, remember that it's your dream, you make the rules, be confident that you can change things, and then simply, chose to make it so. 3) Personally, I don't do hand rubbing. I know its a very commonly quoted technique, but you have to understand the underlying idea behind it. Basically, the idea is that the more you focus on the dreamsensations, the more your dream is likely to solidify and extend itself. In short, pay attention to the dream, and it'll help to make it more real and last longer. Now hand rubbing creates obvious dreamsensations (the feeling of your hands rubbing together), but I find that you can get too worked up in handrubbing. Personally I prefer to just pay lots of attention to everything around me. See, hear, smell, feel... these things almost always help me to ensure the dream becomes more real again when its starting to fade out. Just my 2 dreamcents, -Redrivertears-

[Ibanez]

Thanks for the answers :] 1. That makes sense. Now in the summer my room gets very light so i have a dark t-shirt over my eyes so that won't disturb me. It gets 100 % dark that way. 2. OK, I hope my third gets a bit longer so I can pracise that :] 3. Yeah, after I woke up I thought about that, maybe I should have lain down in the grass and breathed in the scent or something like that. I'm going to have that in mind. And, another question, how do I make this an answer for you (Redrivertears) without quoting anything?

[Adrenaline Junkie]

Hey Ibanez and back after joining such a while ago! Well Redrivertears pretty much covered everything there lol, so i hope you manage to improve your lucid dreaming experience whilst being here, if you have any questions feel free to ask

[Vex Kitten]

Hi there, welcome to Dream Views. Good luck with your WILDing. For most it's one of the harder techniques to learn, but attainable if you stay focused and practice. Any other questions just ask around. We'll help you the best we can.

[Ibanez]

Thank you thank you :]