new dreamer here

[LucidStriver]

whats up everyone, my names mike and i am going to strive to achieve lucidity at will untill i can accomplish it. i recently had a very exciting and powerfull set of lucid dreams one night out of the blue, and i loved it so much that i am now going to be studying the subject as much as possible. last night i found this website and i tryed the WILD technique and i had some positive results, not bad for the first time trying. i achived lucidity for about 10-20 seconds in a dream and then i woke up, and when i fell back to sleep and had another dream i couldn't get my lucidity back. i remember when i realized i was dreaming, i was with my brother and a good friend and i told them that this was just a dream and that we can now do whatever we wanted and they just looked at me emotionless to what i was saying. i remember i still went on trying to convince them i was dreaming and thats when i woke up. did i do something wrong? maybe i should have just just realized it and left it at that without making such a big deal about it. maybe i was too excited, i don't know. another aspect about me is that i have had sleep paralysis since i was a kid on and off and it used to scare the shit out of me. and just a week ago i find out i can achieve lucidity through the paralysis and i'm extremely happy now, because if it happens again, i won't fight to break out of it like i usually do. it used to scare the piss out of me when it used to happen, and i would desperetly try to move a finger or a toe to break the paralysis, which i would always do. in the past, sleep paralysis would come on like a frieght train. i would be lying in bed conscious of my thoughts and all of a suden i hear what seems to be a huge rush of wind blowing and then a slight pop and i would be paralized. it took no longer than a second for this to occur. very scary experience if you arn't aware of whats going on. now that i know, i will be welcoming it with open arms. i can't wait untill my next paralysis episode so i can try to get lucid through it. anyway, i'm extemely happy i found this forum and i hope to gain a wealth of information about lucid dreams and they're potential. any tips will be deeply appreciated. i will be trying all the various techniques and i will update you all with the results when they happen. cheers, mike

[Hukif]

Welcome to DV. I'm sure this site can provide tons of info (more than I can read XD) Here: http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=64760 Hope you get many more lucids.

[Shift]

Welcome! Congrats on those lucids! And kudos for taking an AMAZING approach to true sleep paralysis that many people new to lucid dreaming don't! Embracing the disorder is definitely going to help you achieve lucidity! Walms gave you a great link, not much more I can do. Waking up like that may have just been from being too excited. Next time when you become lucid, try to just take in your environment and engage all of your senses to make it as real as possible, that should help stabilize the dream. Sometimes getting too excited can definitely wake you up, sometimes you just do. As you gain more experience you should be able to stay in your dreams better Let me know if you have any more questions!

[LucidStriver]

Welcome! Congrats on those lucids! And kudos for taking an AMAZING approach to true sleep paralysis that many people new to lucid dreaming don't! Embracing the disorder is definitely going to help you achieve lucidity! Walms gave you a great link, not much more I can do. Waking up like that may have just been from being too excited. Next time when you become lucid, try to just take in your environment and engage all of your senses to make it as real as possible, that should help stabilize the dream. Sometimes getting too excited can definitely wake you up, sometimes you just do. As you gain more experience you should be able to stay in your dreams better Let me know if you have any more questions! thanks fellas. and about sleep paralysis, i don't think its a disorder, but more than a gift if you know what it is. if you don't know what it is, then yes, it's a disorder. do you know if there's a way to achieve sleep paralysis whenver you want to? that would be alot easier than practicing all these new techniques for lucidity. recently when i had the paralysis, i went to sleep early (more like a nap) and then got up a 3-4 hours later because i woke up some how. i stayed awake for a good hour or 2 eating and watching tv and then went back to sleep. on the onset of sleep, i would get the paralysis. this has happened on many occasions before, so i might try this method tonight. and i will try to stay calm next time i am lucid, but it can be hard to do that. i guess it just needs practice. and if i may ask you Shift, how long have you been lucid dreaming and how often do you have them? is it something that took alot of practice and now you can do it when-ever you want, or did it come naturally?

[John11]

Don't worry too much about the excitedness issue. It just kind of goes away once you've had a few LDs under your belt. I'd say your LD faded because you were giving too much attention to one thing (ie insisting to your brother and friend that you were lucid). I've noticed a lot of my LDs fade for this reason. Try to mix things up a bit and go with the flow of the dream and be aware of the dream (don't just ignore what your dream presents to you).

[Shift]

thanks fellas. and about sleep paralysis, i don't think its a disorder, but more than a gift if you know what it is. if you don't know what it is, then yes, it's a disorder. do you know if there's a way to achieve sleep paralysis whenver you want to? that would be alot easier than practicing all these new techniques for lucidity. recently when i had the paralysis, i went to sleep early (more like a nap) and then got up a 3-4 hours later because i woke up some how. i stayed awake for a good hour or 2 eating and watching tv and then went back to sleep. on the onset of sleep, i would get the paralysis. this has happened on many occasions before, so i might try this method tonight. and i will try to stay calm next time i am lucid, but it can be hard to do that. i guess it just needs practice. and if i may ask you Shift, how long have you been lucid dreaming and how often do you have them? is it something that took alot of practice and now you can do it when-ever you want, or did it come naturally? Haha, well just because you embrace them doesn't mean it's not a disorder But as I said it's really excellent that you're learning to use them, rather than suffering because of them! I don't think a normal person is going to be able to get into sleep paralysis as easily as you are able to, but give this tutorial a try and http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=65007 see if it helps you get into SP at will, or figure out the best method to. I've been lucid dreaming for a few years since I had my first one, which was natural. I had about 2 a year, in April I joined DV and since then it's been about 1-2/week.