Hello! I'm new here. Got my first LD yesterday

Hi everyone!

I'm starting on this pratice of having LD. I've read about this in a book, where a brazilian guy named Amyr Klink crossed the South Atlantic ocean alone, in a small boat, and he had to wake up many times during the night.
So, he started to remember his dreams and learned to control himself in the dreams.
And them I thought "Damn! Is it possible?", and started my searchs about this subject. I will tell my 1 month experience about it. I'm learning english, so, sorry in advance about any eventual mistake.

I started this pratice one month ago. Just a pen and a note on the side of the bed. In the beginning I was so scared about doing this. I'm not religious, neither believe in something out of the physical world. But it seems our beliefs changes a little when the lights are off :-)

Well, I became to take notes of my dreams. Some of them I remembered a lot of details. I even made some drawings about it. Others, I had just some vague impressions. Yesterday, one month after begin taking notes, I had my first (that I remember) lucid dream :boogie:

I was with my girl in a shopping center with her father. She looked at me and said "Renan, it's not real" and gave me a spoon. I took the spoon and remembered the Matrix movie. I wish the spoon to crook, like in the movie. It happened slowly. "Caralho, I'm dreaming!" ("Caralho" would be like... "Holy s***!" in my language). Then I thought "Is there a way to taste something in a dream? I wish a strawberry to appear in the spoon. Nothing happened.

Then I started to walk around in the mall. I met some friends, but could not understand what where they talking. I was noting the details of the place I was dreaming. Then I tought "I'm on my bed! And I'm here!! But I'm on my bed!!!". Then I started to feel like I was floating on the air. I thought I was waking up, and started to pay atention on the details of the mall, to avoid this. It worked :-)

I came back to my girlfriend, and took his hand. I felt his hand like it was RL! Then I kissed her. And again, felt like in RL. Amazing. Then a old woman appeared, and wanted to hug me. I gave her a hug, and suddenly, I was blind! I heard her voice saying something like "I'm in your house more time than you think." I did not became scared, but the sensation of floating in the air started again, and I did nothing to stop, then I woke up.

Wow. That was an interesting read. Anyways, your experience is a very common one, but lucid dreaming seems to come very easily to you. I remember I read about it on Wikipedia, and ever since then I had random lucids. I decided to research the possibilities of inducing them, and ended up here. I would suggest creating a Dream Journal here if you wish to remember more dreams, and possibly increase the number of lucids. I've had an average of about 4 lucids a month here, and that's with my 2 month absence.

Welcome to the site.

Also, I know a little bit of Spanish (that's what you speak, right?). Possibly enough to help you translate some things better, but not enough to converse.

Hello! Good night (here is 01:10 AM). Thank you for the answer.

I think I dream every night and can remember after wake up, but if I don't write it or tell to somebody, I forget the dreams. It seems to be a very common thing. Anyway, the site is great. I'm reading the others experiences and thoughts, and it is being very good for my LD training.

I hope it can help me to improve my english too, since I have to write, and somethimes think in english to express my ideas.

Fell free to correct me if you want to, it will help me :-)

And, no, I don't talk spanish, I'm brazilian, here we talk portuguese. But don't worry. I feel ok to write in english. I just hope my text don't seems incomprehensible to the natural english speakers. If it sounds like Borat or Fez talking, that's ok for now :)

Well, I'm gonna sleep now. Hope I don't find that old woman again. She kinda scares me now that I'm awake.

Good night!

It's alright. One of my adoptees (sort of a teacher-student program here on DV) spoke French and Spanish as his first and second language. We have a few people here (actually, probably closer to 4 or 5%) who don't speak native English. We'll work around it.

Tomorrow morning, create a dream journal with all the dreams you remembered. You won't be sorry you did it.

Grats on your lucid.
"I came back to my girlfriend, and took his hand. I felt his hand like it was RL"!
Took his hand?
Heh'

:P

Oh!
I mean "I took HER hand", hahaha :D Her hand. The hand of my GIRLfriend.

Four LD for month mean... almost one LD/Week O.O!! That's rly good.

I'll try to create the on-line journal. But all the dreams are non-sense ones.

Today I could not rebember my sleep. I woke up, and then I fall asleep... damn! I remember now. I'll try to rebember some things and write.

Have to go work now.

Have a nice weekend :-)