Thread: Hey guys, vivid first LD. Looking for your thoughts on this

Hey guys, noob here. Great to be here...

I have average dreams from time to time, none out of the ordinary, and nor do I know that I am currently dreaming at the time. Yesterday at about 3PM I had a little over an hour and a half before I had to be at my next college class, so I decided to lay down for a nap for a little over an hour or so. I set my alarm clock for 4:15 and got in bed, where I fell asleep immediately, since I was very sleepy. I woke before my alarm clock went off, or at least I thought I woke up. I got out of bed and started playing with my cats which usually sleep in my room. I noticed that my cats were different colors, and were smaller then they usually are and then it dawned on me, I’m dreaming. Wait a minute, I’m dreaming, I know I’m dreaming, and I am aware of the real world, but I’m asleep. What gives? How can this be? This is awesome! I began walking around the house. In the dream I am back at my house, but in the real world I am in my dorm room sleeping, and I’m aware of all of this in my dream. I then thought to myself, this is cool as hell, I’m asleep, but I’m conscious of the real world. I don’t remember talking to anyone in my dream either. I continued to walk around the house, and enjoy this new sensation. Then I realized that I had to be in class (actually marching band practice) at 4:45. What if I didn’t set the alarm clock correctly and I oversleep, I better get up. So… get up. Uh oh, problem. How do I get up if I’m in the middle of a dream, I know I’m dreaming, and the person who I’m controlling is the person in this dream state, not the real me, the real me is asleep. How the hell do I do this? How do I consciously wake back up to reality. I immediately thought of the obvious. If I kill myself then… no, I can’t do this. This feels too real, too morbid. So I think I’ll run into a wall in my kitchen. It won’t hurt, I’m in a dream. I started to run, but wussed out. It was all too real. I started to climb one of the palm trees in my front yard (there aren’t any palm trees in my front yard by the way) and jumped out, not far enough to get hurt, just for fun, then jumped. I was still asleep, and still concentrating on how to wake up. I closed my eyes really tightly and opened them, hoping to open them in the real world and wake up. Didn’t work, still in the dream state. No matter how hard I tried, no matter how hard I concentrated I couldn’t escape this trance state and return back to the real world. I laid down on the ground in my yard and pretended it was my bed, and when I opened my eyes I would wake up in the real world. Still didn’t work, I still couldn’t feel the pillow I was laying on, or the mattress, or sheets, or hear the TV which was left on in my dorm room, no matter how hard I tried. After a bit more trying, I managed to slowly return to the real world, as my dream state faded, and at about 4PM, I was up with a smile on my face, totally amazed by what just happened, and wanted to do it again and again. I immediately had to tell my roommates, and later everyone at rehearsals. I was hooked. My premonition that once you realize that you are dreaming, you wake up was totally proved wrong.

So that’s why I’m here. I immediately started searching for answers on the internet and found this site and forum and discovered the concept of lucid dreaming. I believe I typed something like “real-world dream” into Google and came up with this, since I wasn’t aware of lucid dreaming at the time. I thought that I was possibly having an out of body experience the first few minutes of the dream, until I realized that I was dreaming. So what do you guys think of all this? Thanks for listening. I think I’ll stick around on this forum too, it seems really cool, and this stuff is interesting, if not addicting. I stayed up late last night for a while reading posts on this forum too. Anyhow, I’m Kevin, I’m from South Carolina, and I look forward to hearing some of your thoughts on this.