First successful lucid dream! (I think...)

**mark23** · 02-05-2011 02:22 AM

After two weeks or so of recording dreams to not much avail, I think I actually had my first lucid dream!

Well, it started out as a regular dream. I was in a bathroom filled with very creepy looking men, not paying attention to me, but just normally moving about the room. I spotted one that I remembered from a previous dream (I think I have a lot of short little dreams because whenever I wake up from one I always remember some aspect of it being from some earlier dream I have no recollection of but that aspect, usually people.) Think this guy was a sex offender on the loose or something. I then spotted my mother weaving through the room who had also heard the news about this guy so she was searching around the city for bathrooms in case I was there

She's always told me to never go to the bathroom alone, haha

Anyways, I can't remember what the conversation was, but eventually I got to saying "Wait, we're lucid, lets go catch this guy and turn him in, we won't get hurt because its a dream!" However, this is unimportant as this wasn't actually a lucid action, probably just the result of me thinking about lucid dreaming before sleeping.

After agreeing, we were in a car driving fast and about to go down this sloped road which turned into a T, so if we kept going straight we would hit the buildings. Suddenly, I realized I was lucid, not too sure of the trigger, but I did. Instantly, I wanted to test if I could control anything so I thought "Fly" and I sort of jumped out of the car through the roof and then it got weird. Everything turned into super slow-mo, so I was sort of levitating upwards slowly. My ears started ringing, I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck rising in my bed, and my heart was racing.

A creepy looking guy in one of those hats that cover your face was staring at me from the road as I was levitating, and all the hectic from the last paragraph was continuing. Those two combined really made me nervous and scared, I wanted to have a calm, cool lucid dream, so I tried to change the scene. I closed my eyes in attempt of doing this, but when I opened them I saw the dreadful clock in my room.

Still though, I was ecstatic and I sat there for a few seconds registering what just happened. I actually attained lucidity, or so I hope. Please tell me what you think, was this lucid, is there something wrong about closing my eyes, what do I do when everything gets to intense/scary to bear, etc.

Sorry about the length. I would really appreciate some responses though.

**MadMonkey** · 02-05-2011 03:36 AM

If you knew that it was a dream then it was a lucid. Don't close your eyes because if usualy will cause you to wake up. Those memories of past dreams are probably actualy false memories meaning it never actualy happenend and your mind just makes it up for the dream.

Welcome to dreamviews.

Don't wory about the length, ive read some posts that are many times longer than yours.

**mark23** · 02-05-2011 05:34 AM

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

If you knew that it was a dream then it was a lucid. Don't close your eyes because if usualy will cause you to wake up. Those memories of past dreams are probably actualy false memories meaning it never actualy happenend and your mind just makes it up for the dream.

Welcome to dreamviews.

Don't wory about the length, ive read some posts that are many times longer than yours.

Thanks for the response and the welcome.

I'm really wondering about the craziness when I tried to fly. Like I said, when I tried to jump out of the car and fly, everything turned super slow motion so as a result I was slowly levitating upwards, and my ears started ringing loudly, and it was really chaotic and scary because the guy on the street scared the hell out of me for some reason.

What do you make of that?

**MadMonkey** · 02-05-2011 05:56 AM

Eh who knows. That has never happenend to me when I fly. Sometimes random things happen in dreams. Emotions can be amplified in dreams and maby it you became over excited.