Obligatory First LD Thread!

[lifeinsteps]

Funny story about me; I made an account here in February of 2009, and I actually never had a lucid dream! I tried for a month or so, but something was simply clouding my ability to do so. In all honesty, I think I was stopping myself from it because I didn't believe that I could do it, for whatever reason. Anyway, I decided to hop on back over to Dreamviews two days ago while I have a summer left to see if I could start getting some lucid dreams. Anyway, you can check out my journal entry for July 6th if you'd like the best of detail I can offer, but I can sum up the actual lucid area for this thread. Basically I tried a WBTB method I read on the forum last night. At first I went into a non-lucid dream, but after a bit I happened to return to the thought that I was dreaming. Suddenly, I was shown a window which contained the image of a gun being held in first person. I struggled and struggled to pull this window closer to me. I was well lucid at this point, trying desperately and thinking actively about how I needed to get into the dream before me. After quite a bit of struggling, I managed to somehow break the seam between the black limbo I seemed to be in, and slam into the dream world. The resounding effect of the sound and the visuals booming into place created a rather earthquake sort of feel. Suddenly everything took on an almost hyper-realistic feel. It was a very nice feeling as well. I can already imagine what kinds of things could be experienced with the ability to maintain the grounding in such a place. Sure, it ended quickly (I woke up as soon as I fired the gun because it was so loud it startled me back the real world) but that's nothing a little practice and experience wouldn't solve.