Last night i had my first lucid dream since coming onto dream views. The dream did not last very long, and while it was happening I found it incredibly hard to do anything worthwhile in it because of several factors:
- I had to keep doing reality checks incredibly often, because I kept feeling that I was on the edge of losing lucidity, and that the dream kept trying to become a nightmare.
- Being excited as i was on having a LD, i couldn't decide what i wanted to do and stick to it; i kept changing my mind so many times, trying to change the dream scenario again and again, and so I never gained any stability and so the result was a very unstable dream that was continuously fading away from me. So most of the time had to be used up in stabilisation techniques, I was spinning around countless times.
-I was generally in a state of panic for most of this dream, I couldn't seem to relax myself enough to so things at a proper relaxed pace.

I managed to detect many false awakenings during this dream - however in the end my dream mind finally won over by tricking me into thinking that I was so far into the process of finally waking up that it gave me the illusion of already having one of my eyes open, with the real vision flooding into my dream vision...I was incredibly pissed off when I eventually let myself wake up because of this, and then realised that the real vision looked completely different.

Has anyone else experienced similar trouble when having their first LD's?