Thread: My first LD!

Hello everyone

I had my first lucid dream tonight and so I have to tell someone about it
Please excuse my English, it's not my native language.

Well, I tried to become lucid since last week or so ... I've read "How to trick your body into falling asleep" and so I wanted to do that, but I never entered SP; my arms and legs were numb and heavy but I was still able to move and there weren't any hypnagogic hallucinations - so I stayed awake for hours

Yesterday I said to myself that I want to wake up at 4 o'clock to try to WILD, and I woke up at 4:50 or so. I stood up, read a WILD tutorial and went to bed again; then I tried to enter SP. It failed again and then at first I had a non-lucid dream ...

I was in a church and realized that I wasn't sitting on my chair but standing somewhere in the front and so I thought that everybody would look at me. I decided to rewind time like I do often in my dreams - so I can always start again from beginning and do things better than before.

But recently I had thought about dream signs and that rewinding time could by a good sign for me! And so in my dream I suddenly knew it was a dream! I shouted: "This is a dream!" though I felt like everybody was staring at me now! I wanted to go away, but now everything went black - it was like I fainted and I could hear all the people around me who wanted to help me ...

Then I woke up in my bed. I looked at my clock ... it was "5:111"! I thought: "What? 5:111?" And then I knew it was a false awakening! I also realized that my clock was standing on the wrong place and that there were some mysterious blue lights in my room ... but anyway, it was so REAL! I've never thought a lucid dream would feel so real ...

I was very excited and went out of bed ... and obviously I was TOO excited because now I started to lose lucidity.

Well, nevertheless it was my first lucid dream, I think ... (a DILD?). I hope I will have another one tonight, maybe then I'll be able to control it a bit.

Hello and welcome to DV, Ymbripolis! Congratulations on your first lucid dream. I hope you have many more to come, and I hope you enjoy your stay here! I'm sure you'll enjoy the community we have here, and all the information we have on lucid dreaming here that you can take full advantage of. See you around the boards!

Congrats Ymbripolis! I'm new to this forum myself. The great thing about your description is that not only did you achieve lucidity for the first time but you have recognised a key dream sign for yourself (being rewinding time) and so it will be much easier for you to recognise this in the future and become lucid.

You also sound quite motivated which is a big help I think. Reading alot about and even thinking about lucid dreaming will help your chances.

Also what you described about your room looking so real and the out of place things seems a little like remote vision with a little bit of 'reality leak' which is where your mind is obvserving the environment close to the physical but also things across the 'veil' not through your physical eyes but through your third eye (the blue lights may have been spirits). So in other words this will mean you should have quite clear vision straight away if you start going for WILD/OBE exits. All positive...

Thank you for your answers, Daniel and Ajna I like this forum and the chatroom.

Also what you described about your room looking so real and the out of place things seems a little like remote vision with a little bit of 'reality leak' which is where your mind is obvserving the environment close to the physical but also things across the 'veil' not through your physical eyes but through your third eye (the blue lights may have been spirits). So in other words this will mean you should have quite clear vision straight away if you start going for WILD/OBE exits. All positive...

Wow, that sounds interesting. A few days ago I dreamt that I was lying in my bed and suddenly I started to float out of my body into the air. I floated to the ceiling and then I thought that i couldn't go on now and so I woke up. It wasn't a lucid dream, I think, because I haven't been aware of being asleep or maybe just at the beginning when I also felt that my arm was numb for a moment. Anyway, it was a great feeling and so it would be really cool if I could have a OBE or at least a WILD.

Also what you described about your room looking so real and the out of place things seems a little like remote vision with a little bit of 'reality leak'

That's just what I thought when I read that, you were seeing your room with your third eye.

For the other thing it does sound like an OBE to me possibly.

j

PS I'm new too

Yea it sounds to me like you have already projected out of body Ymbripolis. Maybe sit down and have a think about what you want to do next time it happens and this may prolong it when it happens again and you have a goal!

hello! Im just heard about this phenomenon yesterday. It sounds kind of difficult so before I invest a lot of time, please fill me in a little...
how realistic would you say your dreams are?
If you were to eat an apple (or participate in any other activity), and you remember how it tastes and feels, does it feel like your actually eating pizza as if awake?
or is the dream world more vague and senseless?
Can you see clearly?
Sorry for so many questions, but im pretty curious

thanks alot!

Originally Posted by Xanadu

hello! Im just heard about this phenomenon yesterday. It sounds kind of difficult so before I invest a lot of time, please fill me in a little...
how realistic would you say your dreams are?
If you were to eat an apple (or participate in any other activity), and you remember how it tastes and feels, does it feel like your actually eating pizza as if awake?
or is the dream world more vague and senseless?
Can you see clearly?
Sorry for so many questions, but im pretty curious

thanks alot!

The short answer is yes to all of the above however the level of realism will increase with experience (won't take long if your doing the correct things). Basically its as real as waking life as your brain is providing the sensory inputs for all of the senses rather than them taking their inputs from the 'outside' world. So it can be a totally immersive experience...

Just start finding out as much info as you can and you will see it is definitely worth the investment of time and effort!