Thread: About 7 seconds of lucidity (my first real lucid experience)

Here's a bit of background leading up to this particular dream...

It seemed I was starting to remember my dreams less and less since I stopped my dream journal although I'd have a vivid one every now and then. Recently I've been able to remember dreams a lot more often, although I don't try too hard, but they've been really vivid and often.

It seemed that every now and then I would get to be in a state where RIGHT before I would open my eyes to wake up (like 1-2 seconds before) I would look around and think "Oh I'm dreaming and now I'm waking up" and everything would fade out and I'd open my eyes.

It's happened quite a few times and I've never tried to get it to last because I wasn't absolutely lucid enough to consciously do anything about it. But then last night happened:

I was having a really weird dream where I was at a New Years dance, in I place I'm quite sure I contructed out of my imagination, with a bunch of friends of mine and everyone was having a grand old time, when classical music suddenly came on and everything just died down. (FYI I do love classical music but not at a dance party xD) I went to where the DJ was and found that it was my grandfather playing the music. I could go on for a while here but I'll keep it short; I ended up having to save the day and failing and I woke up at around 3 in the morning, and promptly rolled around for a little bit and fell asleep.

I entered a new dream that involved cruising around on an empty highway with a guy I just recently got aquainted with, and we ended up splitting up and everything turning into a waterslide. My memory is blurry here but I remember going around a crazy path passing by I think a fire truck and some sort of disaster... I don't know.

Anyway I found myself at the base of one of the slides on a black marble surface, in front of this young woman I had met at my sister's college a few weeks back. I spontaneously realized that I was dreaming when I was looking her in the eye, and looked around for a second. I believe she was saying something before I became lucid but when I did I said something along the lines of "Wow I'm dreaming right now" and she stopped talking and just stared at me. At this point I was in absolute lucidity, but like I had with the other somewhat lucid experience I began to think sullenly "well, this is where I wake up now" and while I was still in the dream I became aware of my real life body and slowly switched visions to my normal waking vision and woke up.

It was really inspiring for me to try and start lucid dreaming. I have faith now that I've actually done it, and now that I've found such a great site/forum that I can start to lucid dream on a regular basis. You'll see me all over these forums once I get some more free time.

Let me know what you guys think about this experience, and if you'd had anything similar with the right before waking semi lucidity happen to you.

*OH YEAH!! I forgot to mention, I had my headphones connected to my computer with an mp3 of my voice looping part of a script I'm trying to memorize for this job I just landed. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I had it on until I fell back asleep at 3. When I woke up I took them off.