Thread: Going from a Newbie to a Consistent LDer and Recording the Journey

MILDs arent just saying mantras before bed, that's called auto suggestion.

I recommend reading Exploring the world of lucid dreaming by Stephen Labere, he explains everything you'll
Need to know to become an oneironaut. It's only $8 on amazon.

Thanks rynkrt

Wednesday March 23 2011

Had an epicly long and vivid dream but I didn't write it down. It was amazing though.

Great idea, my idea was to do this too....
...that is when I remember a dream.

Ah, sorry for the inactivity. I've been extremely busy and haven't had any time to post or remember any dreams.

Had my first lucid dream. It was long too. About 15 minutes. I'll post the details in a few hours -- I'll need to copy it from my journal.

Yay! Good for you mashupota :manama sure to write down the events in the day leadingup to the LD, anything bizarre, what time you went to sleep, how your day went. This might help you find out what might have caused the dream.

To increase your recall ALOT try journaling your day before you go to bed.

Originally Posted by MashuPota

Had my first lucid dream. It was long too. About 15 minutes. I'll post the details in a few hours -- I'll need to copy it from my journal.

Congratulations man. I´m too in the beginning of lucidity. May i ask what method was used?

Originally Posted by Surukien

Congratulations man. I´m too in the beginning of lucidity. May i ask what method was used?

It was pretty random to be honest, I wasn't particularly trying that night. I went to bed pretty early (around 9ish). The dream started with me inside of a guitar. Like, a really big acoustic guitar. I was in the belly looking up through the aperture at the strings and was walking around the interior. I kind of went along with it until I started climbing the walls and slipped and fell a good 100 feet (I was really small or the guitar was insanely huge).

I thought for sure that I'd die but I bounced off the wooden floor and soared through the strings outside of the guitar into a normal world. At this point I practically said to myself "What the hell is this?" and realized I was dreaming.

I got really, really excited but I was able to calm myself and took the advice of quite a few thread's I've read and rubbed my hands, looked around, etc.

I was in a pine forest in the mid afternoon, and the guitar was in a large meadow. It was warm, bright, partially cloudy, but the sun was green. I turned around and saw a deer with five antlers, turned to look at the guitar again, but it was replaced by a submarine. I wanted to go explore the sub so I slowly made my way over to it (walking in a dream was a lot harder than I thought it would be). Then I got to a ladder, which was especially hard to climb. I stood at the top of the submarine tower and opened the hatch to the inside. It was really dark and I heard screams so I didn't go in and ran away from it. I entered the forest and picked some pine needles, which turned out to actually be kind of prickly when I touched them. I was really surprised by that. I had been lucid for about 5 minutes or so but at this point I faded out of lucidity for about 5 minutes.

During the short non-lucid period, I started to slowly fall upwards. I tried to grab branches of trees but couldn't hold on. It was like all of the branches were covered in slippery sap.

I became lucid again, tried to correct gravity, but ended up making it sideways gravity. The submarine started to hover above the ground and had a few pine trees orbiting it, which was really cool looking. I didn't see any dream characters and the only other living being besides me was the deer with five antlers, which was also orbiting the submarine. A bunch of trees got uprooted and I started to wake up.

I didn't try to stay still and go back into the lucid, I just sat back, recollected all of the memories, and wrote them down.

I also didn't try to exert much control over the dream because I wanted to relax and enjoy my first lucid, and ended up just going with the flow. It was a great experience and it definitely resparked my interest in lucid dreaming.

May 3 2011

Had a dream last night where I was gathering in a field with two groups of friends that I knew but had never met each other. One of the groups (about 5 people), was about to head inside my house because I was talking to Group 2 (about 7 guys) more than group 1. Then someone in group 2 had a football. I ran around telling him to pass, he missed, and a guy from group 1 caught it.

We all started spontaneously smiling, joking around, talking, and passing the football out in a yellow-grassed field. The sun was green like in my lucid dream, but I didn't turn lucid. We were waiting for a moving truck to bring a bunch of grass to replace the yellow grass. The 'grass' seemed to alternate between golden grass and golden wheat, but I didn't notice. I was having an amazing time and 'The Funeral' by Band of Horses was playing. I was extremely happy in the dream and somehow knew I didn't want to wake up even though I wasn't lucid. Then just as the climax of the song was about to hit, my alarm woke me up. Thought the timing was ironic and funny and started laughing out loud, went to a euphoric dream to the drag of reality.

May 7 2011

Had three dreams last night, recorded all of them into my spiral. Two of them had a green sun. I think that's one of my dream signs.

May 17 2011

Had I dream that I was in a video game. The dream has two parts. The first part I'm playing the game in 'Medium' difficulty and in the second part I'm playing the game on 'Nightmare' difficulty.

Medium Difficulty:

I was clearing a Vietnamese rice patty and wooden, decrepit house with a squad of soldiers. It was sunny outside and very warm / humid. I had an M16 and an MP5 with me and we wrecked shop. We lost a few guys but achieved the objective and went home.

Nightmare Difficulty:

The atmosphere changed when I changed the difficulty. It was raining, dark, cold, and spooky. I was alone this time but had the same weapons. The layout of the home was the same but had double the enemies. As I progressed through the home, my weapons ran out of ammunition and I picked up a pistol and shotgun. Eventually I came to a part where the Vietnamese were using POWs as soldiers and I had conversations with some of them as I fought them. I recognized some of them, especially one coming after me with a chain gun. I completed the mission and woke up.