Thread: First lucid dream experiences

I had my first lucid dream that I was able to control just last night and I can't take it out of my mind. I have been trying seriously for LC for the past 2 months or so, however the idea of lucid dreaming had gotten into me since I watched the movie Waking Life about 4-5 years ago.

The dream was long and very vivid and it was DILD. I don't remember doing anything particular that had to do with dreaming before I go to sleep, but I remember that just before I got into that dream, I had woke up for a bit.

The whole dream took place in an old house and the dream was going on for a while before the realization. I remember that I entered the house after a couple other episodes in the same house and started wandering in it. It was empty unlike my expectation and it had a couple of rooms. Suddenly, I notice a woman sitting on a couch while I was convinced the house was empty. I headed for the exit when I realized even more people where there. I felt a bit weird and maybe embarrassed. Then the logic took over and I wondered how it was possible that the house was filled with people. I said this wasn't possible unless I was in a dream. Then, it struck me to look at my hands and... voila! My fingers where changing shape and size just like in the movie. I thought to do another RC and tried to fall down from a height. My body felt like rubber. Finally I decide to start levitating. I did it and I was so excited that I was afraid I might just wake up. Finally I didn't and managed to get out of the house flying! I don't remember what happened but after I had raised a great deal from the ground I woke up.

Apart from a lucid dream, this was my first vivid and coherent dream after a very long time. I was very much helped by an i-phone application that reminds you to do RCs during the day. It seems it finally was worthy all this trouble.

Just had my first LD a little over a week ago. After a few weeks of building up my DR and getting in the habit of RC'ing, I was having trouble with my dreams being too vague so I was looking here on this site for supplements and what not to take, went over to Amazon to order some Dream Root. Maybe it was all the focus I was putting on LD'ing that kept it in the front of my mind, but that night I had my first LD.

I remember playing hockey with a bunch of old friends, it was almost like a memory because I grew up playing hockey. As we were walking out of the rink it hit me, I'm not sure why but I stopped and said "Holy crap I think this is a dream." I brought my hands up to my face, and attempted to make my thumb pass through my other palm and it did! I was so excited I almost lost control, but remembered what I read here about focusing on something like my hands, so I started examining them and stopped once I calmed down. When I looked up everything had changed and I was in an open field, figured I try a basic fantasy of flying and just took off into the sky. My god it was amazing, I didn't have 100% control though because after that I tried to summon people I haven't seen in years but just couldn't make it happen. I think that's when I was waking up cause that's the last I remember of it. Maybe because my REM cycle was ending I lost some control, guess I'll test that next time I get lucid.

When I woke up I just couldn't get the smile off my face, it was such an amazing experience and I can't wait to see what I can accomplish with LD, in terms of interacting with my subconscious, working out problems in my life and what not. My problem is only remembering one or two dreams a week so I'm trying out the supplements to see if I can increase that.

I induced my first LD using MILD some months ago. it was about 5 minutes but in 4 story plots and the scenes were inconsistent. I was somewhere like hell then i realized it is not normal (in real life, of course it is not normal as i am a good guy so i shouldn't be in hell...LOL) then i became lucid. I had many FA. for example i was in my bed that suddenly a white dressed man came in to my room with a big knife and i was really afraid! then i put my dream hands on my dream heart which was beating rapidly! (it was the only nightmare in my LDs). Then in another plot, i jumped in the air and i flied (but flying in my other LDs was hard) and i summoned a handsome chinese kung fu man while he was staring at me as if i looked stupid while flying.
It was the best experience in my life! my next LDs were less exiting but more consistent and realistic which i like them more.
thanks for reading

I can't tell you when I first had a lucid dream, since I had lucid nightmares as a child from very young, being tortured and tormented by demons, but I can tell you about the first time I exercised full dream control. They would capture me, take me to an altar, tie me down, cut me open, and laugh as they played with my guts while I silently screamed in terror. I used to cry out to Jesus, and say, "I rebuke you in Jesus' name," but that didn't always work. (Sometimes it did, but not most of the time.)

Dream:
I am tied up in thick ropes, being carried by demons through a hellish red landscape covered with dead bodies. They are taking me to a stone altar on a hill to sacrifice me alive and torture me, like they always do. I cry out to Jesus. The demons laugh and tell me that won't help. They poke and prod me with long fingernails. It feels like being pricked with thorns and needles. They laugh as I wince and moan in pain.
A demon whispers to me, "There's no hope. You are ours. We own your soul, and we will suck the life energy out of you in your dreams until the day you die. Bitch. You are our slave, our host, and we OWN YOU."

Suddenly, a dark rage overcomes me, and my body shakes and heats up. The demons seem confused. The ropes begin to smoke, then burst into flame. I AM FREE! The demons drop me, and back away in startlement, then regain composure. They draw infernal weapons: jagged swords, cat-o-nine-tails, clubs with rusty nails, and other nasty shit. The nearest demon charges me, sword drawn. I grab his sword with my bare hand, and melt it with intense heat. The demon looks confused. I grab him by the throat, then slam him on the ground and stomp on his skull, crushing it. Suddenly, all the demons attack me at once. I kill, and slay, and slaughter, ripping off heads and arms, stealing weapons and killing them with their own blades. I am at the center of a hellstorm swarming around me as hundreds and hundreds converge, and I kill them. All.
After the last demon is dead, I am standing in the middle of the battlefield, splattered in the blood of my enemies, breathing hard with a crazy grin on my face.
One demon is laughing and mocking me, half dead. I crush his skull with a big fuckin rock.

finis

Lucid Be.

One day when I was 11 or 12 I read about lucid dreaming on the internet. I had never heard of it before nor had I recalled ever having such an experience. That night, without trying, it just sort of happened as I was trying to fall asleep. I was just walking down a road, aware I was in a dream and able to act out any intention I had.

Ever since then I lucid dream regularly, without trying. It just happens as I fall asleep. Usually I have control over the location and my actions. I can bring another person into the dream, but cannot usually decide who it will be or what they will do.

Originally Posted by cambo

One day when I was 11 or 12 I read about lucid dreaming on the internet. I had never heard of it before nor had I recalled ever having such an experience. That night, without trying, it just sort of happened as I was trying to fall asleep. I was just walking down a road, aware I was in a dream and able to act out any intention I had.

Ever since then I lucid dream regularly, without trying. It just happens as I fall asleep. Usually I have control over the location and my actions. I can bring another person into the dream, but cannot usually decide who it will be or what they will do.

How do you bring people into your dream?

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

How do you bring people into your dream?

I just think "I'd like someone to be here right now." When I try to bring in a specific person, let's say my mother for example, a figure with similar stature and mannerisms will appear, but not "in the face" of my mother and not behaving as she normally would.

Originally Posted by kostman

I had my first lucid dream that I was able to control just last night and I can't take it out of my mind. I have been trying seriously for LC for the past 2 months or so, however the idea of lucid dreaming had gotten into me since I watched the movie Waking Life about 4-5 years ago.

The dream was long and very vivid and it was DILD. I don't remember doing anything particular that had to do with dreaming before I go to sleep, but I remember that just before I got into that dream, I had woke up for a bit.

The whole dream took place in an old house and the dream was going on for a while before the realization. I remember that I entered the house after a couple other episodes in the same house and started wandering in it. It was empty unlike my expectation and it had a couple of rooms. Suddenly, I notice a woman sitting on a couch while I was convinced the house was empty. I headed for the exit when I realized even more people where there. I felt a bit weird and maybe embarrassed. Then the logic took over and I wondered how it was possible that the house was filled with people. I said this wasn't possible unless I was in a dream. Then, it struck me to look at my hands and... voila! My fingers where changing shape and size just like in the movie. I thought to do another RC and tried to fall down from a height. My body felt like rubber. Finally I decide to start levitating. I did it and I was so excited that I was afraid I might just wake up. Finally I didn't and managed to get out of the house flying! I don't remember what happened but after I had raised a great deal from the ground I woke up.

Apart from a lucid dream, this was my first vivid and coherent dream after a very long time. I was very much helped by an i-phone application that reminds you to do RCs during the day. It seems it finally was worthy all this trouble.

Nice I have that app for the iPhone, it's called reality check and it helps a crap ton, it reminds you whenever you set it to. It also works randomly specified. My first lucid was so awesome, it was like 2 months ago and the only DILD I had, but it was like 20 minutes long and just so cool the way it turned out.

I had my first last night after almost 40 days of attempts. I woke up and let the dogs out then went back to bed telling myself I would remember to recognize that I was dreaming. I had a dream wherein I went to get into my car, but found that instead of my Subaru outback, it was a 1980s orange Chevrolet caprice classic. This let me recognize that I was dreaming. I rubbed my hands together and asked for clarity (my planned action). I think this worked, but I was not terribly alert, because I ended up flying across the street into some juniper bushes. The collision felt amazingly real, the branches scratched my skin. I was amazed by this in the dream. Then I woke up.

Originally Posted by KonchogTashi

I had my first last night after almost 40 days of attempts. I woke up and let the dogs out then went back to bed telling myself I would remember to recognize that I was dreaming. I had a dream wherein I went to get into my car, but found that instead of my Subaru outback, it was a 1980s orange Chevrolet caprice classic. This let me recognize that I was dreaming. I rubbed my hands together and asked for clarity (my planned action). I think this worked, but I was not terribly alert, because I ended up flying across the street into some juniper bushes. The collision felt amazingly real, the branches scratched my skin. I was amazed by this in the dream. Then I woke up.

Congrats! That's funny! Thanks for sharing.

Originally Posted by Kozak

Nice I have that app for the iPhone, it's called reality check and it helps a crap ton, it reminds you whenever you set it to. It also works randomly specified. My first lucid was so awesome, it was like 2 months ago and the only DILD I had, but it was like 20 minutes long and just so cool the way it turned out.

Can i ask you how long after you first you had your second LD and how often you have one. Its been a month and i don't seem to be able to have a proper LD. Thanks....

I would like to ask anyone reading this thread: how long after your first lucid dream did you have your second one? It seems that i don't get to have a second LD.

i just had my first lucid dream today and it was crazy!

Originally Posted by kostman

I would like to ask anyone reading this thread: how long after your first lucid dream did you have your second one? It seems that i don't get to have a second LD.

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Originally Posted by antoshkastar

i just had my first lucid dream today and it was crazy!

Congrats! So what was it about?


I had my very first LD back when I was a grade schooler and I didn't even know that LDs existed.

Sometime in 2002

My very first lucid dream (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was at grade school and walked down a staircase to get outside because recess was going on. The other pupils of the school weren't normal people though. They were all sorts of fantasy figures. One of them was a big Schwarzenegger-like guy. Everytime someone said the word "evil", something snapped inside of him and he got the sudden urge to kill and destroy everything. If someone said "good", he would turn back to be normal again.
A few kids played around with that until this ability "broke" and the guy just stayed on evil. He went totally crazy and started raging like Hulk. At one point he got some kind of laser-bazooka. I got hit by one of the shots and lost my hand. I was absolutely terrified.
At this point I became lucid, but that didn't help. I ran away, hid behind some kind of small shed and screamed for my family, hoping they would wake me up from this nightmare. Unfortunately no one heard me in IRL...
Shortly after a giant tornado approached the field and took everything with it. This is where my sister finally woke me up and I was never happier.

I hadn't even heard of lucid dreaming when I became aware that I was dreaming. As I had no idea, I immediately blinked my eyes multiple times in order to wake up and I woke up (that was very stupid of me, destroyed the chance of first lucid experience ) I don't remember exactly, but I think I did the same in the second lucid dream. Gradually I had more these kinds of dreams (that was about a year ago) and I decided to check on Internet.

I had my first lucid dream about 5 years ago, within my first week of trying. I spontaneously became lucid while dreaming about being at a theme park. My crush was there and I wasted all my dreamtime thinking about how to get him to interact with me. Second lucid dream was a couple of days later. I was at my old house, flying, when I suddenly realized: "Hey, I'm flying! People can't fly!" So I tried to fly in a different direction, only I got too excited and woke up.