Interesting Experience (1rst post)

Looks like a great site, I just registered. I wanted to relate (briefly) a dream experience that I had a few months ago. Nobody I know seems to really appreciate the significance (of this, and/or of lucid dreams in general), so I was happy to find this site.

I've had ten or so "involuntary" lucid dreams (I'm just beginning now to study the subject, and to attempt to have them more regularly), all really awesome.... anyway, this post is about the beginning of one of the dreams.

Basically, what happened was, I was in bed, and I was in that in-between waking/sleeping stage--crazy thoughts and images floating around, etc., and I realized suddenly that I was on the verge of falling asleep... so I immediately decided to enter the dream state consciously. In a split second I realized that a nearby school was to be the setting; I consciously stepped into the dream world (a large grassy area) from the waking world. It was like stepping through a portal or something. Basically, my "dream body" materialized (or whatever) before "I" began dreaming, and stepped into the dream, onto the grass... I was then lucid for about 10 or so seconds, and lost consciousness (or maybe I just forgot what happened from then on).

I thought that would be a good first one to relate. I hope to now have many more experiences like it, and to begin to be able to control when I have the lucid dreams.

Thanks for reading.

:welcome: Noah. Cool dream!

So, did you watch your body enter the dream/portal in a third person type of view before you actually inhabited the dream? I bet that was a weird transition as you changed perspective.

I hope you find what you are looking for, here. Be sure to check out our tutorials for a lot of good tips:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...splay.php?f=25

And the Dream Journal section if you want to read up on other peoples' adventures or share your own:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...splay.php?f=26

See you around the site.

No, I felt like I wasn't watching anything. I felt like I myself stepped through into the dream, right as it was beginning.

I hope I described it right, I hope it makes sense.

Thanks a lot for welcoming me. Again, this seems like a really cool site.

-Noah

I think it was a WILD? I just read the definition of it.

As I was reading it, I thought to myself "That's a stereotypical WILD right there". If you can learn to do that, you'll have tons of lucid dreams. In fact, it's often referred to as "the holy grail of lucid dreaming". I, unfortunately, haven't figured it out yet. You even got the Hypnagogic Imagery, which I've always thought was pretty cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

If I can ask, could you move while you were seeing these things, or were you paralyzed?

I don't know, I didn't try to move. But I actually don't think I could've if I'd tried. Unless I'd woken myself up completely of course. (woken? is that a word?)

I think the word is awakened... or awoken