Was I Lucid Dreaming? or dreaming about LD?

I'm really new to this whole Lucid Dreaming, I just started reading about it like 3 days ago. Last night I woke up from a dream, and remembered the DEILD technique, where I picture myself doing something in my head and I become that person. Well it actually worked...i think. When I started my next dream I was in an office and there was a clock sitting on the desk, and I figured, might as well try the clock thingy, so I looked at it and back again, and it had changed dramatically, so I figured I must be dreaming. Right after I had thought that I was overcome with joy, and jumped straight through the desk and into the floor...weird i know, but I felt like I was stuck there, not long though. I had always wanted to have "relations" with a celebrity in one of my dreams, so I thought about Jessica Alba, and I was instantly in a kind of wavy desert, but i was with another really hot girl, not Jessica. But there was another person there, a sort of wizard or somethin that kept turning my dream girl into LaFanda from Napoleon Dynamite, lol. I kept trying to think about Jessica and turn her back into her, and kept this struggle going until I "woke up". I woke up in my dream, and told my gf that i had a lucid dream, and then got a feeling that I had left my contacts in overnight, so I really woke up and ran to the bathroom, but I hadnt even putten them in that day.
I could not tell if that was really a lucid dream where I controlled it, or I was just dreaming about this stuff because I've been so into LD recently... sorry for the long post. thanks.
Oh I had forgotten to say that I got a little drunk that night, does this effect anything??

Hey :) It sounds to me like you had a lucid dream. As long as you were in a dream, and knew that you were dreaming, it was a lucid dream :) So I'd say, congrats!!! :breakitdown:

People are always debating the effects of alcohol. Some say it helps, some say it doesn't. What'll really boggle your mind, is the effects of drinking alcohol in a lucid dream! :tongue:

thanks man, i was waiting and waiting till somebody replied, lol. it was just so weird since its never happened before. i cant wait to have my next lucid dream. gonna be a drunk one again tonight i guess, haha.
and i just saw ur last sentence. Maybe i'll try drinking in a lucid dream...but i honestly dont think I could, maybe a really advanced LD could...

Haha, I don't think it would be too advanced of a task but yea, as a beginner, probably wanna take things slowly :tongue: are you doing reality checks? Something that is ridiculously fun, as a beginner and even in your old age like me, is to do reality checks in your dreams... :tongue:

what are reality checks?? do you mean to check things such as the clock? the sky? or other things that could not be true in real life? cuz in a lot of my dreams I am hanging out with a friend that moved away that could not be true. or do you mean somethin else? lol.

Yes, checking the clock counts as a reality check. It's a good one! Seeing old friends is a good dream sign (I'd reality check afterwards to make sure it's not a fluke. I'd think "How did I get here with you guys? Ah? I can't remember! I must be dreaming!").

Nice job with your lucid dream. If sex was my goal, I'd settle for the orginal hot girl you saw. It was your first lucid, so you should take it slow. Don't focus on too much at one time. It'll be easier to master your dream goal in steps (it may take at least one dream per step).

Become lucid=>Have stable lucids=>Find hot girl=>Fool around with hot girl=>sex up hot girl=>sex up Jessica Alba. If you can turn the hot girl into Jessica Alba earlier, go for it, but if it transforming the hot girl becomes the focus of your lucid dreams, I'd save this step for the end.

If you continue having trouble transforming people, try first with easy objects. Melt some ice, then refreeze it. Melt a spoon, and refreeze it into a fork. Melt a sofa, refreeze it into a ferrari. Work your way up. You don't even have to melt things--a mere wave of the hand is enough, as long as you follow the same trend (easy/logical/little=>easy/little=>easy/big=>easy/anything!).

Good luck!

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Yep. A reality check is just a 'state check'- a check to determine whether or not you are dreaming or still awake. It takes advantage of the fact that sometimes in dreams, certain things tend to function a certain way that makes them a good marker of the dream state. Some of the common reality checks are based on this- look at your hands in a dream, and you will usually have an odd number of fingers or have strange, short, or deformed hands. Try to push your finger through your palm of the other hand (or any object, for that matter), and your finger should go right through. Hold your nose shut while in a dream, but inhale through your nose, and you will continue to breath, since you're not actually blocking your nose. Numbers and letters tend to be unstable, so reading text or looking at a digital clock will usually show changing times/words, and let you know that you are dreaming.

So yea, just do these sorts of things whenever you hear or read anything about lucid dreaming (for example, by the end of this post you should have done a reality check), when you first wake up (to catch False Awakenings), when you use electronics or electronics break or fail to work (common in dreams), when you see or think about your dream signs or people who shouldn't be around (like people from your past, or the deceased), whenever strange coincidences happen, whenever something strange occurs.

The whole point is that you do these during waking life, to raise your awareness of your environment and your own behaviors, so that in dreams you question 'reality' more often, and catch these strange dream markers and become lucid :D And also, every once in a while you will not even think it's a dream, but randomly do a RC, and become lucid :D

K, thanks for the advice Abra and Shift. I'll really try to take it slow, I really should start keeping a dream journal though, but half the time im either sleepin at my gf house or I go to bed way to late to spend time waking up and recording them. I guess we'll see... I didnt record the one that I posted first, I kinda just kept telling myself what had happened and remembered it, so maybe I can just get by with that.
Well anyway, good advice both of you.

hey, im new here as well!

I read about lucid dreams yesterday and gave it a try... it kinda worked but when I started flying I became so excited that this really works that I woke up!
Yeah now I know you must remain calm and stabilize dream and stuff, but my question is: how can you remain calm when your purpose is to do exciting things??? do you "get used" to do it little by little day after day, or whenever you start getting excited you do the detail visualization step ?

sorry for asking it here as it is totally off-topic, but i dont wanna start another topic just for this question!]

thanks for the tips!!

Yea im not really sure, i just started a couple days ago. I think you do get used to it little by little, and instead of jumping straight to flying or something totally exciting test yourself in other ways such as changing shapes, or kissing a random girl or what not. Start simple and then once your used to it then start trying out new things such as flying.