Hello all, newbie incoming. Also, my second lucid in 2 weeks.
Hello everyone.
I found this lovely website 2 weeks ago after I had a lucid dream and decided to type lucid dreaming into Google :)
Fantastic site, I've been reading up on techniques and such ever since and it payed off last night so I thought I'd sign up and share.
Looking forward to getting more involved in the community and talking about dreams :D I'm often talking to my friends about dreams I had, but they don't share my enthusiasm.
I've been having Lucid dreams as long as I can remember, but rarely. Perhaps a couple each year (that I remember). They have always been loosely lucid, like I realize I'm dreaming, but I still can't think very clearly and have very limited control. My dreams are also heavily influenced by fantasy and sci-fi and can be pretty wacky at times. I almost always have the power to fly or move objects with my mind in my dreams when not lucid. However until now I don't recall ever being able to fly perfectly, I always need to do stupid swimming motions with my arms and legs, as if I'm swimming through the air or else I fall back to the ground.
I've been keeping a dream journal for the last 2 weeks since I found this site. I had pretty good recall beforehand, but already it's improved. I've been trying to do RCs everyday but usually forget for most of the day then remember at night before bed. Last night I tried to WILD for the first time. I failed, but ended up having a DILD anyway! :D
I went to sleep normally with my alarm set to wake me after 4 hours. I woke up 4 hours later and didn't remember my dream. All I could recall was something about a castle and a strange pulsing sensation. I got out of bed to wake myself up a bit, then went back and tried to WILD. I lay there for 45 minutes before giving up and going to sleep normally. Then this is what happened, I'll paste directly from my dream journal that I keep on the PC, with the lucid parts in bold.
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I was in some kind of dorm room. Trying to read a book about a white knight. I also had a watch the whole time that I kept unclipping and reclipping with my mind (One of those watches with the metal band that snaps back over itself).
Some girl whom I can't recall well (reminded me of Angelina Jolie but shorter) would come over and talk to me. Something happened and we had to escape from the head of the dorm who was also reading the same book and found out I was reading it and was mad. To escape, this girl who could swim really well had to teach me a "golden ability". She taught me how to swim really fast like her. I could then also fly using this ability, and propel myself forward really fast through the air (first time I've been able to fly at high speeds without my body disappearing). We escaped through underwater tunnels.
On the other side we were in a field of grass, up on a balcony above it. I was floating in the air holding onto the railing while the girl was telling me off for being so careless. She was talking about how she shouldn't have taught me a golden ability and the world was all out of sync now. I landed and was then approached by Hayden Panettiere (Claire in heroes, the cheerleader). We were talking for a bit on a grassy hill (I don't remember about what) then we kissed. I grabbed her by the upper arm, while a clone of myself grabbed her other arm and we both flew up into the air, pulling her up. Then I pulled her up and hugged her close to me as I flew. My clone flew off on his own and disappeared. Then I realized, this is Claire, she can fly (even though she can't in the TV show, she can heal. But I just knew she could fly). So I said "are you ready?", then let her go and we continued flying separately. Now I don't remember what happened to Hayden/Claire, she just kind of disappeared and suddenly and spontaneously while floating in mid-air I realized I was dreaming. I didn't even do a reality check, I just knew it. I was still floating in midair so that was confirmation enough.
I got fairly excited and shouted out "hell yeah!". Then just continued floating in midair above the field of grass and thought about what I should do next. I decided to not go crazy like I usually would and so I just clicked my fingers and fell to the ground. It was about 50 meters, I just free fell and landed on the grass smoothly and calmly. I was compelled to start spinning or something but started thinking about how its a dream and there isn't any reason it would fade just because I was lucid, so I didn't. I just started walking to look around. Everything was extremely vivid. I was on the edge of the grass field with a big building to my left. The first person I came across was Catalina (the character from My Name is Earl). My first thought was to jump her, but I resisted the urge and just said Hi with a massive grin on my face and kept walking.
Then I walked passed Joshua, a kid from my Primary School that I haven't seen in at least 11 years. I decided I should just try some things I wouldn't normally think about doing just to prove to myself that I could. I turned around and held my hand up toward Catalina and imagined a force striking her as she was walking away. She dropped dead just like I intended. I felt guilty and repeated to myself "she's not real, I can do anything in my dreams". Joshua walked over to her and was all horrified and picked her up and carried her into the building. I followed and entered a room where Catalina was lying on the ground, but she was alive again. Nobody else was around. I started to lose lucidity.
From here it basically turned into a non-lucid sex dream, so I'll skip the details. A few minutes later I could hear my alarm going off (It wasn't really set) and I had a false awakening where I opened my eyes in bed but could still see the original dream, which had frozen. I reached over and turned the fake alarm off then closed my eyes again and willed myself back into the dream. Immediately it unfroze and continued, but warped into something else.
I was watching remotely. I wasn't in the scene, but just watching like it was a tv show or something. These zombie guys were in a chicken store, they'd overrun it and trashed everything. Their faces where all white with large gashes all over and bits of skin hanging off. Some skinny innocent guy walked into the door unaware and the head zombie grabbed him and said "my my, isn't it your lucky day". Then a police radio sitting on the counter was talking about a break in at the chicken place on something street (It was actually called something street). One of the other zombies said "Is that the one we're in?" and the head zombie said "Lets not take the chance". They let the man go and began to leave. Then I woke up for real.
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:boogie: My second lucid dream in a couple of weeks, woohoo! I just wish it had lasted longer. My lucid dreams always turn back into non-lucid dreams at some point. I have a problem with maintaining the lucidity. I guess that will come with experience and practice? :)
Thanks for reading my long post. Also, Merry Christmas to any who celebrate it.
