Thread: First Lucid Dream Experience

I went to sleep at 2am last night and slept until noon on my couch. I was still tired so I went to my bed and fell asleep for a little bit longer. I started dreaming as soon as I fell asleep and not long after a funny realization came over me. I became somewhat conscious and I realized I was in the dream. Vision became clearer while sound became stiller. I didn't want it to slip and I remembered a trick where if we look at our hands, it helps stabilize the dream.

I looked at my hands and they looked funny at first but things stabilized. It was nighttime and all the lights in the house were off and I wanted my GF in my dream, so I grabbed my cat and whispered in his ear "Go find her!". He ran off into the backyard, through the bushes and dissapeared. Later I found this little pomeranian dog that my GF has, and it tried to make out with me. I guess I shouldn't have sent a cat! I was disgusted and I went to sleep.

I woke up, and I wasn't sure if I was still in the dream world or not. I got out of bed and recognized that I was still in the house and I could see rain hitting the patio door. I realized I was still inside my dream. I opened the patio door and I could smell wood smoke from the houses around, and I could see mist every time I breathed. The balcony was wet and glistening.. everything was so sharp.
I went to the front of the house and decided to go for a drive. There was this old red car there.. I didn't want to drive it so I said "no, I have a camaro", but the car didn't change. So I tried looking away and looking up the street and I saw a red camaro parked next to the curb. I walked toward it and next time I looked the car was in the middle of the road waiting for me to get in.

I got in and pressed the gas and the car starting going right away, and I thought "No.. I want a manual". Then it was a manual and I needed to use the clutch, etc.. to drive the car. I don't remember actually seeing the controls, but I felt myself using them. It was still raining outside and I knew I wouldn't be able to go so fast in the rain, so I thought, "No, I don't want it to be raining" and the rain stopped. The car wasn't accelerating and handling like I expected so I kept thinking "No, this car performs better than this" but now I wasn't getting as much as I wanted.

I went too fast around a corner and understeered into some rich guy's driveway and went 100 feet up it, narrowly missing his parked cars. I backed out and almost hit a passing van who honked at me. I then started driving through suburbia.. and I guess the car was performing better but I wanted to find a highway so I could really blast it. I was thinking to myself "Ok, the highway's going to be past this next bend", and the area we were going through was more built up, with small apartment buildings and condominiums.

I was driving along, but in the back of my mind I didn't think I would get to the highway, because I was going to wake up. Sure enough, I was driving, and then everything just turned... gray. I could still see the after-image of the dream embossed on the gray for a short time, and I could hear an echo of the last sounds of the dream in my mind, but this also dissapeared into the void. Then I didn't see the gray anymore,, I didn't see anything at all, I was in null-space.. then I started hearing birds. I tried moving my arm and felt my body. I opened my eyes and realized I was up, for real this time.

Now that I'm up, the dream doesn't feel that diffferent from a regular dream.. the details were slipping almost as fast as with a normal dream, which is why I'm writing about it right now.. right away. I do believe it was my first lasting lucid dream ever, though. I've had many experiences before where the dream's vision becomes clearer and the sound becomes "still" and I realize I have some control. What's happened those times is I lose it and end up waking up... this is the first time I've stayed in for a good 10-15 mins or so! Of course, clear dreams aren't always lucid.. I've had very vivid, colorful dreams where I had no control at all (or I might have dreamed I had control, but when I woke up I realized the difference).

This time however, I don't believe I was simply dreaming that I had control. I really did have control, though my mind was still under a great deal of influence from the dream world. Though I had control, I wasn't as lucid as in waking life. It didn't quite feel like I was actually up.. it didn't feel like how the world feels right now, typing this on my computer. But can lucid dreams reach that point, where they become like the matrix? Still, it was pretty cool

I wonder what caused it? I always noticed that anytime I came close to becoming lucid, it was usually after I had woken up and fallen back asleep. Also, I ate 100g of chocolate and drank a whole can of orange juice (with 4 shots of vodka in it to help me sleep) before going to bed last night, though yeah, I didn't have the lucid dream till this morning, but I don't normally eat like that or drink alcohol during the week so could those have had anything to do with it?