I had my first simi LD

[Lucas the Goat]

Over the weekend I had my first taste. It felt amazing but it didn't last to long. Was not very vivid ether. The sceen was blotty and static like with lots of Red and Blue so I could not get a good visual of my dream scape, which is not like my dreams. In the dream I asked myself if I was dreaming like I always do in my waking life (latly) and I managed to start doing a RC in my dream. All day long (in waking life) I attempt to make a pen float in the air and that carried over into my dream. At first I could not locate a pen in my dream but then I looked down and there was a small coffee bar with a pen sitting on it. The first attemt to make the pen float I threw it and it just dissapered. Thats when I became simi lucid and knew I was dreaming. What followed was strange. I threw another pen and it became a pebble and fell back down. I then threw the pebble and it became a CD (comp Disk) and fell down. I found another pen and threw this one and it became a living bird and I caught it. Thats all I remember and it took about thirty min. the next mourning to recall it but the feeling I felt was great. Let me know what you think. thanx- Lucas the goat...

[spockman]

Sounds like a pretty neat dream. Maybe the pen thing will become a dream sign, since you used it as one. You say it was semi-lucid. When you did the RC, where you going through motions or actively thinking, 'If X happens, I am dreaming. If X happens, I am likely not.' Try clarifying your RC if it doesn't work fully for you. But good job remembering to RC in the first place and if you have more clarity problems when you have a full lucid I will do my best to help you with them. Oh, and, why do you think it wasn't a real lucid?

[Lucas the Goat]

why do you think it wasn't a real lucid? It only lasted maybe 45 seconds. and I couldn't seem to pull away from from what I was doing. I tried to make the pen float and instead it transformed. I did not will this to happen, it just did. I could not make it float. Also a side note I forgot to metion before: I could really feel the sleep paralasis while I was dreaming. I was having some troble moving in my dream. It was almost like a tingley sensation.

[Lucas the Goat]

[QUOTE=spockman;1200078]You say it was semi-lucid. When you did the RC, where you going through motions or actively thinking, 'If X happens, I am dreaming. If X happens, I am likely not.' Try clarifying your RC if it doesn't work fully for you. QUOTE] All I know is I go through waking life preforming this reality check atleast 10 times a day. I toss a pen up and see if I can will it to float in the air. If it does then I must be dreaming. It might be a little to complex for a beginner because there is nothing saying that I will be able to make it float in my dream either. Im changing reality checks now. The only thing that made me a bit Lucid was that I knew that things cant transform in real life. so it worked a little for what it was worth. I will start pinching my nose shut and seeing if I can breath now as a RC. I think this will be more effective.

[spockman]

Well actually lucas, the amount of powe you have in your dream, (called dream control,) has nothing to do with the level of lucidity. Neither does the length. (Which, anyway, 45 seconds is not a bad length for someone new to LDing. Not at all.) Now, the inability to change what you are doing could signify a lower lucid level. I believe we have dreaming mind-sets, (where the dream is almost scripted and we go with the flow not thinking about it,)and concious mind-sets, (where you are aware and make decisions and stuff.) An LDers goal is to break the dreaming mind-set and become aware. That is all lucidity is. Level of awareness. Would you say you were somewhere in between those two mind-sets? As far as feeling the paralysis and such, alot of people experience this problem. Whether or not being lucid makes us more intune with what our body feels while awake I'm not sure. But usually by immersing oneself into the LD and being active in the dream people can minimize this problem.

[slash112]

Yeah that pretty much answered the question. But, can I just say. There is only two levels of lucidity non-lucid and full-lucid. You either know you are dreaming or you don't and length of the dream has nothing to do with it.

[Lucas the Goat]

There was no script but once I saw that bird I kinda did just go with the flo. Thats also where I lost my recall.

[spockman]

Yeah that pretty much answered the question. But, can I just say. There is only two levels of lucidity non-lucid and full-lucid. You either know you are dreaming or you don't and length of the dream has nothing to do with it. Yeah, but I've had tons of dreams where I knew I was dreaming but couldn't quite understand all of the implications of that.

[Lucas the Goat]

I've had tons of dreams where I knew I was dreaming but couldn't quite understand all of the implications of that. Thats pretty much what I think happened. Its hard to say if I was compleatly Lucid. There was a point where I did say to myself "I must be dreaming". If anything, it was a rough draft of a LD.

[slash112]

I actually kinda said it wrong. If you are CONCIOUS then it is lucid, if you are not, then you are non-lucid. There are no roads between. The thing about being concious in a dream is that you basically have to realise, or be aware that it is a dream. If you truly were not aware, then you were not lucid at all. But if you really did have the realisation that you were dreaming (and not just empty words of "i am dreaming") then you were lucid. End of.

[Lucas the Goat]

Im goona keep trying to better my Lucidity. thanx for all the help. you guys are awesome

[J.D.]

Thats pretty much what I think happened. Its hard to say if I was compleatly Lucid. There was a point where I did say to myself "I must be dreaming". If anything, it was a rough draft of a LD. I think I must be in the same boat as you Lucas, you just summed up part of a dream I had last night!

[Lucas the Goat]

I think I must be in the same boat as you Lucas, you just summed up part of a dream I had last night! What happened?

[J.D.]

I was the captain of some sort of spaceship, which was under attack and I just realised, "this must be a dream, stuff like this doesn't happen..." For maybe a couple of minutes the dream continued, not very clearly, then I think I sort of phased back into a standard dream, nothing much having changed.