My First Lucid Dreaming Experience

Last night/this morning was my first time actually having lucid dreams. The night before I went to bed, I was listening to some lucid dream inducing music. I was pretty tired because I went on a road trip with a few friends during the day. So I took a sleeping pill(I know these are bad, but I can't perform a WBTB normally and I still dream when I take these pills) and went to bed during my normal sleeping time. I set my DS up like normal to do a WBTB in the morning. Then I got into my comfortable sleeping position, said a few mantras and tried to hold a SP to perform a WILD. I think this failed.

During the morning, I had a total of three lucid dreams. However, I only remember two of them. I don't remember the first one, but I remember I knew I was dreaming. In the second one, I was playing a game or something and I realized I was dreaming. Then I woke up and pulled a DEILD (I didn't know I was doing one though) and I had the next dream. In that dream, I was driving a blue truck. I crashed into a telephone pole and had an OBE. I saw the crash from a third person perspective in the sky. Then I spun in a circle and yelled, "I'm dreaming!" This caused me to wake up. Go figure :roll:.

So I checked my DS and realized it was two hours past my scheduled alarm to perform my WBTB. I discovered that I forgot to turn on the volume. I thought, "this is weird." So I did my thing and tried to go back to sleep, but it didn't work. After half an hour, I decided to get up.

So now I'm trying to think of what caused the lucid dreams. I think it might have been the mantras because every time I say one, it always comes true. However, I have a theory it might've been caused by a EILD. My brain could have picked up the alarm from my DS. The alarm was probably silent enough to not wake me up, but it could have been loud enough for my brain to pick it up. My support for theory comes from having more than one lucid dream. The alarm could have cued my brain during the right cycle of my sleep to induce a lucid dream.

Thoughts, anyone?

Wow! Excellent job on your first three LDs -- in one night!

I sometimes DEILD by accident. Is that what happened? I also think the quiet alarm on the DS may have helped. However, I swear by the power of mantras to cause LDs.

I'm sure the mantras and the expectation to have a lucid later in the night helped. If you find that mantras and self affirmations work for you, take advantage of it. I've recently had a lot of success with autosuggestion type mantras. It is the easiest technique by far.

Also, if you notice you woke up 2 hours after your alarm was supposed to go off, maybe you had your alarm set for the wrong time. Try doing your next WBTB at the same time you had these lucids.