Your Most Inspiring Lucid Success Stories!

[TheOneirologist]

I created this forum for all of the people who are desperate for lucidity, but are either impatient or having a hard time getting started. I happen to be the former, but anyhow, if you have inspiring stories of lucidity, this is the place to post them!

[Tara]

My first success with the WILD technique was a complete accident. I had woken up in the night and was very restless. I spent a long time just trying to go to sleep, not have an LD or WILD or anything. I was tossing and turning constantly until I finally just stopped and decided to lay still for a long time. I was on my side. My arm was starting to hurt, so I rolled onto my back and the huge wave of comfort was wonderful. I was finally feeling tired, though, my legs felt like they were quivering and my body felt strange, too. The feelings got stronger and I began to feel a sense of disconnection with my body. I already knew what was happening. I was approaching sleep paralysis. I thought, what the butt, might as well try out another WILD. I relaxed and focused on the sensations until my whole body began to vibrate and I was thrust into the usual feelings of SP; the ringing, the humming, the vibrating. This time, however, the humming sounds I was used to began to morph into laughter that echoed in my head. I could feel myself grinning and sitting on something hard, yet at the same time I felt my body still in bed and motionless. Those feelings began to disappear and I lost consciousness for a few seconds until I was left with nothing but darkness, the laughter, and something hard under my rump. I came to and thought, "I guess it's time to open my eyes." and so I did. I was in my school during some celebration, laughing with my friends. So, there began my first WILD-induced lucid.

[TheOneirologist]

Thanks for posting. I'm wondering if I should try WILD... right now I'm attempting a combo of visualization MILD and DILD, is that likely to get results with consistency?

[dakotahnok]

MILD is the only way ive gotten an ld. use it with WBTB and your set

[TheOneirologist]

Huh. So far I've only had success with DILD. (Unless that was a MILD I had last night... I'll call it a DMILD)

[J.D.]

Something that always inspires me when I'm losing interest is remembering the very first conscious thought I had while in a dream. I was (dreaming) sitting in the passenger side of a car when I became lucid for the first time. Nothing in particular turned me lucid, I had just been trying to pull it off for a while, and I realised this wasn't reality. Everything started to fade slightly, but I remembered a good stabilisation technique was to grab and feel objects. Looking about the dashboard, I couldn't see anything to pick up. Then I noticed there was a cassette tape in the car radio. All I had to do was press the eject button and feel the tape. This is the best part. I lifted my arm to the button, and my mind was blown. It was a conscious, waking-style decision to move. I made it there and then, because I was mentally there at that moment. My awakened brain told my arm muscles to move- just as it would in real life, and I felt it as it happened. It was so realistic and I was so self-aware that I found it hard to believe I was still in a dream with this level of conscious thought. I thought of it not so much as being asleep, but being awake, in a simulation. Like living it rather than dreaming it. It's such a simple action that I smile at it now, but the effect it had on me was profound.

[Chimpertainment]

thats a very helpful description of SP, im gonna have to try that. Ive tried it a couple times already but i think ive been to tired when i went to sleep and wasnt able to focus. I use to SP in a negative way with hallucinations and profound fear till i learned to lucid. I remember that vibration happening several times while going to sleep and not knowing it was SP. thanks for the post!

[TheOneirologist]

Something that always inspires me when I'm losing interest is remembering the very first conscious thought I had while in a dream. That's a good idea, but I don't know how it'll work for me. You see, my first lucid dream was ten seconds of hyperventilation. Basically, I stood up and lost lucidity. I did have my third lucid dream last night, so that's good. But I think I was only mildly lucid: I seemed to lose lucidity every now and then not be in control of my own actions. Thank you, though.

[Clyde Machine]

After not having a lucid dream in probably a month, I had a DEILD of excellent quality and excellent realism this morning. I opened a program in Linux called the "GODAPP" to bring up a giant resizeable whiteboard for me to draw on. I drew lyrics to "Jenny/867-5309" all over it while singing it. Tried to do a TOTY (parting of the Red/Reed Sea) but lost the lucid from lack of focus. If that's not a comeback story to win for this thread, I don't know what is.

[Clyde Machine]

After not having a lucid dream in probably a month, I had a DEILD of excellent quality and excellent realism this morning. I opened a program in Linux called the "GODAPP" to bring up a giant resizeable whiteboard for me to draw on. I drew lyrics to "Jenny/867-5309" all over it while singing it. Tried to do a TOTY (parting of the Red/Reed Sea) but lost the lucid from lack of focus. If that's not a comeback story to win for this thread, I don't know what is.