Thread: Oh my...now what?

haha I remember looking at my hands...and then looking again to count them because it was not 10 but 12 and then the natural thing to do was to pinch my nose and I could breathe, that was a lot stranger after that I saw a bunch of black spots in front of me and then I woke up. I'm kinda dissapointed but my expectations were too high.

aww don`t be disappointed! I`ll be excited for you! Yay! RC worked!! You`re gonna get it soon! = just know you will!

Thanks Tara you're so sweet!
I'm just going to sleep today, maybe that will work

haha you`ll probably have the best one ever without even trying! -
And just to throw in my two cents, the only LDs I have had any dream control over were WBTB, and its when I wake up after 4 or 5 hours then go back to sleep about 30 minutes later (although most people say its better to only stay up a few minutes) ..but thats just what works for me

I did try a WBTB the other day. I drank like 5 cups of water before sleeping and I woke up after having a dream because I had to go the bathroom . Everything was perfect but then ofcourse I was too much waiting for things to happen + nervous for things that could happen. I think I'm just not ready for a WILD. But I'm fine with that I am really rushing into things I just have to say "Es..take it easy "

Don't worry about WILDing or getting lucids right away. I think it's a good idea to keep relaxed about it. Maybe stick to RCing a lot and having DILDs for now?

yeah that's the best thing to do right now. But it's soo tempting to do a WILD I can't help it

Absolutely, just relax, like I said before, it seems you may be a natural at this, just keep in mind that the dream control is not the same as LD, don`t worry so much about what all you can make happen in your dreams, first just let yourself see what your dreams have to offer. I have pretty much "shelved" the idea of WILD for now and just commited to "watching" my dreams as they unfold. And that seems to be working pretty well. 2 of my controlled dreams seem to have just popped in by fluke, and great advice I got from Naiya that worked perfectly is when you are viewing your dream like a "filmstrip" like you said, just dive right in... twice thats put me in control of a character who wasn`t myself, and once I was even able to create a purse out of nowhere just to get something I needed out of it.
You`ll get it. Just hang in there!

I think I'm going to start calling the lucid dreams lucid moments because they all last 30 seconds. I had two lucid moments yesterday and another false awakening where I was logging into dreamviews chat to tell about my lucid moment The quantity is good but the quality is crap

Don't worry, your "lucid moments" (hehe, I like that ^^) will get longer as you get more practice. In the meantime, you can try doing dream stabilization techniques when you become lucid.

Also, you might find DEILD useful if you wake up from your lucid dreams a lot.

I did it! I had a lucid dream instead of a lucid moment It lasted more than one minute so I completed my first goal. I am going to write it in my journal and publish it but I woke up again and I forgot about DEILD. I still want to know what would have happened next so I'm going to picture it the next time I'm lucid. It was also the longest dream I can remember since joining DV and becoming so overstressed about LDíng

Originally Posted by Ezzie_Ezz

I did it! I had a lucid dream instead of a lucid moment It lasted more than one minute so I completed my first goal. I am going to write it in my journal and publish it but I woke up again and I forgot about DEILD. I still want to know what would have happened next so I'm going to picture it the next time I'm lucid. It was also the longest dream I can remember since joining DV and becoming so overstressed about LDíng

Congratulations I am so happy for you

I'mma read your journal!

Congrats Ezzie! =D

Awesome! See ,I knew you were on the verge of it!!
...now only if I could get another LD, lol. All week I`ve had all kinda crazy vivid dreams that were "all over the map", but not even a lucid moment lol
Wish me luck! See you all in dreamland, lol, maybe...

Good Luck! If I can do it, the skeptical lucid dreamer , then you can do it as well!

..well, still no lucids this week, but I dreamed a bear was in my backyard last night, lol. It was so crazy real feeling that my fear woke me up... not like instantaneously, I had time to think, "hmm maybe I better go get the gun" ..then woke up. I don`t recall a dream ever waking me up before that.

Just ordered "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen Lebarge... I'm so excited for it to show up... Can't wait to read it!

Same here, I haven't had a LD since my last one two days ago. I tried to wild (again :p) today, but my sister was screaming about something downstairs so I had to scream back to shut her up I had a long dream todat but I was too lazy to get up and write it in my journal and now I've lost it and noo were you planning to kill the bear, that's mean

lol! Idk if I would have killed the dream bear, but I probably at least would have let off one shot to try to scare it off.... it was a realllllllly big dream bear! lol

Originally Posted by Ezzie_Ezz

Same here, I haven't had a LD since my last one two days ago. I tried to wild (again :p) today, but my sister was screaming about something downstairs so I had to scream back to shut her up I had a long dream todat but I was too lazy to get up and write it in my journal and now I've lost it and noo were you planning to kill the bear, that's mean

Ear plugs. They save my life.