Quote Originally Posted by Twoshadows View Post
Hey, camjim. That is a great first lucid dream. You did a great job levitating and going through the ceiling.

When you started having the dream, how asleep were you? If you were just starting to drift off, it would be a WILD ( Wake Initiated Lucid Dream ). That's when you start from a conscious/awake state and are able to enter a dream without losing consciousness. Often when that happens you feel a rush of sound or energy as you descibed.


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Now that you mention it, that does make sense because I had very little sleep before that (I was up the entire night beforehand finishing a paper), this entire experience occurred during an estimated 1-1 1/2 hours of sleep. After reading certain WILD techniques, it seems that the excitement to become lucid kept me aware while I was falling asleep, thus keeping me conscious as I entered the dream state. I still can't believe how real that felt compared to non-lucid dreams though, because I completely thought for a split-second when I first opened my eyes in my room that I just woke up from my nap.