Thread: Introduction & first post

Hi everyone! Im very new to lucid dreaming (I discovered it 3 days ago from a link in DeviantArt) and, well I have had only one lucid dream in my life (i think) and it was something like walking on the pavement in front of my school where i realized i was dreaming and woke up. It was 2 years ago though.

Is there a quickstart to lucid dreaming? I tried listening to some weird 10 minute beep or so in the first day. All it did was nothing. On the second day I made an actual binaural beat which i listened when i went to bed (it was 3 hours long and 491 MB, my mobile has still that in it). All it did is woke me up in the middle of the night where i wrote up my dream into the journal for the very first time. Then i replayed the sound thing again and sleeped on, but i couldn't get sleep. I was really surprised though that when i got sick of the sound it was playing for like 60 minutes! It felt for like 10 minutes actually. Then i turned the sound off and slept on. In the morning i wrote up the second dream. And the third time, which was the night of today i tried WBTB and WILD together. I went to bed 1:00 and woke up at 5:00, stayed up for 10 minutes and went to bed again. I was lying on my back and just thinking about dreaming. I even counted the 1. Im dreaming 2. Im dreaming 3. Im dreaming etc. (in my mother language of course). But after 45 minutes nothing had really happened except some sound which im afraid were real so i just got tired and turned myself and slept. I saw like 3 dreams in total this night but i only remembered one because i didn't write up the dream when i woke up immideatly, so i only rememebered the one i saw the very last. And from even that i remembered a tiny bit. Then i woke up and thats all. No lucid dreams yet . Also that day before that night i did a lot of reality checks (i checked the time on my mobile loads of times), but it didnt help.

And i also have a question: if lucid dreams are so extremely good, then why you even want to wake up from it? Or it is forced like i can see from posts?

Help me to lucid dream please.

Well, welcome to Dream Views my friend!

Please check this out...
Newbie Zone Quickstart Guide

If you've already read that, well here's what I can tell you. Keep a dream journal... and be sure to fill it with as much details as possible. Do alot of reality checks to start out with, and before you go to sleep, trying logging on here, or reading stuff about lucid dreaming. Also, auto-suggestion works great. Before you go to sleep, just think to yourself "i will have a lucid dream". It just might work!

To answer your other question. Lucid dreams are very amazing. No one really wants to wake up from them at all.

Most beginners wake up just from pure excitement. If you ever get too excited in a dream, or scared, you will wake up. Say for instance, you're in a nightmare, and a monster is about to eat you. You will usually wake up just from pure fear. Same with lucid dreams. That split second you realize you're dreaming, a million thoughts go through you... "FINALLY! WOW! THIS IS GREAT!"
And bam, you get too excited and wake up.

So, I hope that answered your questions. Have fun on DV!

Can a beginner also experience a lucid dream when first going to bed? Because 5 days in my week are schooldays and i have to go to sleep at 23:00 and wake at 7:00 (Sometimes i wake 6:40 or 7:30 or so), so i cant wake up at 5:00 or 4:00 and try WBTB. So when i go to sleep at 23:00 can i experience a lucid dream? If i can then how.

Originally Posted by Setup56

Can a beginner also experience a lucid dream when first going to bed? Because 5 days in my week are schooldays and i have to go to sleep at 23:00 and wake at 7:00 (Sometimes i wake 6:40 or 7:30 or so), so i cant wake up at 5:00 or 4:00 and try WBTB. So when i go to sleep at 23:00 can i experience a lucid dream? If i can then how.

It takes approximately 90 minutes from you fall asleep until you reach your first REM cycle, meaning it takes about 90 minutes until you start dreaming. WBTB isn't the best thing you can do on a school/work night... I'd recommend doing that on weekends.

Originally Posted by Setup56

Can a beginner also experience a lucid dream when first going to bed? Because 5 days in my week are schooldays and i have to go to sleep at 23:00 and wake at 7:00 (Sometimes i wake 6:40 or 7:30 or so), so i cant wake up at 5:00 or 4:00 and try WBTB. So when i go to sleep at 23:00 can i experience a lucid dream? If i can then how.

It's called DILD. Sometimes, when you are in a dream, you just realize you are dreaming. This can happen anytime from 90 minutes into your sleep cycle, to when you wake up. Just do alot of reality checks, try to improve your dream recall, and be more aware about your dreaming world.

Can auto-suggestion help with it? Like when i constantly repeat "I will know that i will dream tonight! I will do the reality test!", does it increase the chances of LD (At 23:00)?

Originally Posted by Setup56

Can auto-suggestion help with it? Like when i constantly repeat "I will know that i will dream tonight! I will do the reality test!", does it increase the chances of LD (At 23:00)?

It won't make you dream right away at 23:00, but it will increase your chances of becoming lucid when you do dream.