Hi From New Lucid Dreamer '5triker'

**5triker** · 08-05-2008 03:43 PM

Hi,
My name is striker, and a week or so ago i decided how cool lucid dreaming actually is. A friend told me the basics of how to lucid dream/WILD and said that it may take a while until i have my first lucid dream.
Well, very surprisingly, i my first DILD that night. I don't know whether it was just my mind being triggered by the lengthy conversation earlier that day about lucid dreaming or whether it was just pure luck, (or my brilliant talent for everything lol

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The lucid dream wasn't overly interesting, i went with the flow of the dream an awful lot. It was a bit blurry and hard to remember bits and pieces of it. However i wrote the main events down after waking up, and from what i can recall i just made a lot of things appear and disappear.

In the days that followed i tried every night to do WILDing, using 'Billybob's' guide. However nothing was triggered, and i only had one DILD, in which i stopped the dream and tried recounting what an LD is, and for some reason this woke me up

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However just two nights ago i had a much more vivid DILD;

I was in the middle of a mild nightmare (of being hunted down by my relatives, lol) and for some reason i suddenly became lucid... Well, naturally, i stopped the dream to established a decent 'lucid hold'. So i recounted again what an LD is (but didn't wake up). At this point i wanted to try to complete one of the monthly tasks (eat some intangible). However i did something that i realize now shouldn't have, i tried to make everything just disappear, lol, to create a new landscape, not releasing of course how difficult this would be (to think of virtually nothing, as dreams are your thoughts at the time), well to cut a long story short the dream fell apart

. And then something really odd occurred; i had a very vivid 'double waking' (i think its called). Where i 'woke up' (not lucid) in my bed, although felt awake and started to write down about the lucid dream i had, and after finishing this, i really woke up dreadfully confused

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All-in-all i think LDing is brilliant, and i cant wait till i have my first WILD.

**Dizko** · 08-05-2008 03:50 PM

Welcome 5triker!

Looks like you're off to a great start.

You should maybe take a look at the newbie quick start guide, click here

You may also want to check the first article in the newsletter, called 'Starting your journey, a step by step guide', available here

Anyway, welcome to the forum!

Have fun

**Pastulio_** · 08-05-2008 03:52 PM

to Dreamviews! Dang, two lucids in your first week? One the first night? You're on a roll!(At inducing them at least) It's good that in the second dream you remembered to ground yourself into it. Getting carried away when I first became lucid was a problem I used to have. The eat something intangible task is something that's probably a little too hard for a beginner. Try something simpler next time, like spawning something in your pocket or bending a spoon Matrix style. You can find some tutorials and get good advice in the Dream Control section. FYI, it's false awakening, not double.

Good luck with everything, especially WILD. I've been at this for almost a year, and I still haven't had my first WILD.

**5triker** · 08-05-2008 04:35 PM

Thanks,
I aways did have a few lucid dreams a year before properly getting into it and trying to LD, perhaps now that im trying they are occurring more often... And im certain its just a bit of luck as well

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Thanks for the advice on tutorials, ill check them out

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Oh, and the only downside about LDing seems to be all this terminology you need to know, im off to find a glossary, lol

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