Thread: Newbie!

Hi all, I've been a reader of these forums for quite a while now, reading tutorials now and again, and trying to become lucid myself.

The reason I joined was because the other night I became lucid for the first time since I was young, and want to do it again. I think I've found what my dream sign is, and it should be easy to become lucid again, but I haven't been able to do it since.

Although tonight is the first night where I've properly been back at home for sleep for about 4 days, so I'm hoping the comforts of my own bed might bring another lucid around. I've eaten a couple of different foods already (cheese and banana (and some milk)) and I'm going to sleep in a bit. I'm probably gunna set an alarm for about 4 and a half hours into my sleep and try a WILD or a MILD and see what happens (read some stuff bout VILD's too (might try)). I'll report back tomorrow and probably post either what I dreamed or maybe the lucid (if it occurs).

Wish me luck!

First of all, welcome to Dreamviews!

Reading the tutorials is definitely a good start, and I know that eating things like bananas and cheese (and especially apple juice) can help also, so you're well on your way to having another lucid. Good luck!

I've found that eating peanut butter before you go to sleep increases vividness.

hmmm.... I often eat cheese or peanut butter before bed, but I've never noticed if it had any correlation to my dreams or not. I'll have to pay attention to this in the future.

Hi guys I went lucid!

Sorry about not posting earlier, but I seem to be getting sleep at my house less and less (girlfriend lives quite a distance so i stay at hers). Anyway I feel a bit weird about posting my dream, but cos I got lucid i thought i'd post it anyway ^_^

This is from my dream journal:

26/08/09

I was in a house that was a strange version of mine, I was on my own and I was supposed to be looking after it. I was in the kitchen where the stove is, but there was an in built computer into the work surface, I started trying to look at nude pictures etc. but they started to turn into pictures of a movie where a woman had been murdered, the images were pretty sick, and started to make me panic, then someone started to squirt me with a water pistol, but I could see who it was because they were hiding and quite a distance away (they were outside I was in). I started to get a bit scared and tried to close the front door (but it was more like a gate in the sense that it only had a bolt on it) however I couldn’t close it for some reason, then I became lucid (LUCID 001) through my thinking logically, I thought ‘I really need to close this door’, then for some reason I thought ‘well I am dreaming so I can do anything I want, why don’t I just make the door close’, that’s when I realized that I was probably lucid. I then started to walk down a corridor thinking ‘stay calm I don’t want to wake up’ but I could feel myself waking up naturally anyway, so I tried spinning myself around…and it worked! The dream became a bit more vivid and the scene changed to another house and a stairway, although it didn’t really feel like a dream, I think this is because I was coming out of deep REM anyway. I tried as a walked up the stairs rubbing my hands and feeling the touch on them definitely made things come back for a minute, and then for some reason I also threw in a spin to make sure, and for some reason the scene didn’t change but I did teleport about 4 metres up the stairs and along the hallway at the top, then I entered a room at the end, after that I started to fade in and out of my dream, I tried to control it, but it started to happen so quickly that I couldn’t do anything about it, and then I woke up.

Note: Dream guide followed me from when I was lucid to the end, strange old guy with messy short grey hair, glasses and a moustache…

Dreamt between 08:30 and 08:58

Also the night after this one, I had another LD but it was ridiculously short after I realised I was dreaming, has anyone got any good ways of making sure you stay lucid? I've read about a few simple ways like, hand rubbing etc. but others say that meditation helps you focus and not let your mind wonder to much about waking, does this work?

P.S I'll have to try the peanut butter =) Cheese is good though (tastes damn good too lol)