Accidental LD... that why I'm joining you...

Hello everybody,

a few hours ago i had not idea at all about lucid dreams, never heard the term or anything related, and now I am amazed (and relieved) to find this community and so much information about them...

it all started a few weeks ago I had an accidental lucid moment while dreaming, somehow I looked at my hands, started moving them and realized i could control my dream, experiencing some kind of power that I couldn't explain... I woke up and had the weirdest feeling about this... felt a bit scared as well... I was very busy during those days and didn't do any research... and it wasn't until last night that i had many many moments of almost achieving awareness while dreaming, and everytime i felt like power flowing through my body up to my head... later in the night i had a lucid moment again by looking at my hands and moving them while my dream scenario turned around me and started to fade away... I felt again this power flowing up to my head and I remember I started to say "YES!" while feeling my real mouth closed... then I felt I was losing it so I tried harder to calm down and stay in my dream... don't know why but I also remember trying to pass my finger through my other hand's palm but couldn't do it, it felt real... after a while the energy on the very top of my head felt too strong to handle.. so I gave up and finally woke up... with a very weird headache (for almost 4 hours now :( )... :eek:
and freaking out about the whole experience... couldn't go back to sleep so I googled "dream control" and found you guys...

some questions/comments from the top of my head are...
I am 29 and never before in my life had I such dreams, why now?...
also, I was not trying to have a LD... didn't even know this was possible... I read now that training is required for this... and I feel exhausted from this night... is this normal? can you actually rest when your mind is working so much?

I've tried all morning to fall asleep and have some rest,but without success... I must confess I'm a bit scared:?
I'm not sure yet if I want to have these LD's, people say they are cool but I want to read more about them first... i have the feeling that I won't have a choice anyway and will have them more often from now on... are there also techniques to decide not to LD and have a good rest?

Thanks for you patience with this newbie and for any comments and tips you may have...

welcome intracndnt!

you say "I read now that training is required for this..." well as you discovered, it really isn't required. For reasons I don't know, you have had a few lucid moments, realtively effortlessly.

However, to help this happen more often (or at all for some people) you can undertake as simple to difficult training habits as you like.

I would suggest for you, that you read about DILD, or Dream-Induced-Lucid-Dreams.

These are dreams inwhich you realise you are dreaming, whilst non-lucid, and then becoming lucid.

Basically this involves, being observant whilst awake. If at any point you think something is not-usual...you do a "Reality Check". This is a test that will tell you if you are awake or not. This practice of checking reality will develop into a Habit, which transfers to your dreams. This is not hard, just requires observation and memory.

Maybe have a look in these threads, or ask some more questions!

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=1518

http://www.dreamviews.com/induction.php

Goodluck

it's odd, because i was about to ask about that too.

i only just found out about lucid dreaming today, and the more i read about it, the more i realised that i had experienced it many times before. more often than not, i realise i am in a dream, and i am able to wake myself up if the dream is frightening. i have also experimented with changing my dreams [with limited success]. i can remember having lucid dreams in primary school.

i always just assumed that lucid dreaming was the same for everyone ; occasionally you would be conscious that it was a dream, and sometimes it would be out of your control. but apparently not everybody has experienced a lucid dream at all. i'm really interested in learning how to make these dreams occur more frequently ; i haven't experimented with them fully yet.

Hi james_JLC,

thanks for the welcome and the tips, I'll look into them... most likely i'll be bothering you with more questions...
:)

Hi Disintegration, so we are both the new ones around, huh?
good luck to you!
I've just found this chatroom about LD, nice people there...
http://www.ld4all.com/join_chat_forum.html

i guess so :)

thanks for the link. i'll check it out.