8 LDs in a row last night

[Matchbook]

Lately I've had a dry spell that lasted 5 days, which was quite awhile for me. Well apparently last night my mind made it up to me by giving me a several lucid dreams all in a row. Before I went to bed I took a 3mg Melatonin (which isn't out of the ordinary), and then went to my bed and tried to repel all thoughts and daydreams out of my head so I could fall asleep quickly. I did repeat one thing in my head several times, though. I would repeat over and over in my head the phrase "I'm going to lucid dream tonight". I repeated this until I started hearing the hypnagogic sounds. At this point I figured whatever I was trying to imbed in my subconscious, I already had. So I fell asleep. From that point on I had several vivid dreams, borderline lucids. The kind where you might as well be lucid, but are not quite conscious enough to make decisions on your own volition, or realize what is really going on. After this I woke up, got a drink, and went back to bed. Another dream started, and then it became lucid. I had so many last night that I can't remember what my first one was or how it happened. At first I got excited, but I then noticed that the more excited I got, the more it disrupted my surroundings. That's all I remember. Eventually I woke up from it, but immediately closed my eyes again, and within seconds fell into another dream, but never lost consciousness at all. It started like a normal visualization in my head as i closed my eyes, but then surrounded me like a dream. I decided to fly, of course. But I wanted to try more. I made verbal commands, such as "Everything freeze!" People and objects would pretty much stop moving, but more accurately slow down a lot. What I was trying to accomplish was to stop time and keep my lucid dream longer. They were longer last night, but still, not longer than a couple minutes. Eventually things did begin to fade, so I spun around a couple times and calmly yelled "clarity now!" and told this one object to light up brightly, which it did. I don't even remember what the object was. It lasted awhile longer, but eventually I felt my eyes open in bed inadvertently, and I saw my room. This was not a false awakening. I was completely aware of the difference. But I immediately closed my eyes again, and noticed that the dream was still in my vision, like a closed-eye hallucination. I accidentally opened my eyes again and noticed that the dream was slightly visual with open eyes as well. I closed my eyes again and relaxed and the dream shifted and enveloped me again. This time I was lying on a patch of grass in front of my old high school, with the sun shining at my face and backlighting the grass, as I lay on my stomach propped on my elbows. I could feel the warmth and didn't want to move. I tested to see if I could spend a lucid dream doing nothing and changing nothing. But because my awareness and attention-span was not the same as in real life, I eventually discovered myself doing other things. I was in a housing area, and decided to fly above it to see how my mind would process the changing environment. It created new houses as I flew up for awhile, but as I dwelt upon it, eventually the outward edges just began to spring up extremely tall houses so I could not see past them. Anyway, I had many many LD's last night, each time I woke up, I would close my eyes again and a new dream would appear. My tip is that if you begin to wake up from an LD and you feel your eyes begin to open in real life, close your eyes as soon as possible and relax again, and your brain should create a new dream, or continue the old one. That's how I had upwards of 8 LDs in a row last night. There's more to describe, but there's also too much to describe. Anyone have thoughts on how I could make these last a bit longer? I felt relaxed, but I couldn't seem to stay in them for more than a couple minutes.

[dreamtamer007]

Wow I'm moving to Washington. Just kidding. You doing better then I so I'm not in a position to advise you. I have read about others that have stopped time or slowed it down and I want to do that. I was thinking though. "Maybe if you set you sites or goal on being there for a longer time like a month”, then anything that falls short of that might be hours.

[SantaDreamsToo]

It takes really high level lucidity to actually prolong the time you stay in dreams, So I wouldnt waste my time on it unless your as concious as in waking life, also Gothlark has said that he prolonged his experience by creating a door that led to longer dreaming and then walking through it.

[ilanbg]

Upon feeling dreams begin to end, start moving. Movement prolongs dreams; I think it has something to do with balance. Anyhow, shaking your head helps a lot, or spinning around like a little kid. My favorite is to do a combination of spinning or shaking my head while switching bodies with those around me. I can feel my "being" travel through the air, and I switch as fast as possible, sometimes reaching several people a second. I've only done this once, for I could hear people coming into my room as I began to wake up, but this founded my lucidity more than before, even. Spinning/shaking really helps.

[Copywritten]

what was the technique at first. Just keep repeating "I'll have a lucid dream" over and over again in your head until you fall asleep. I'm such a deep sleeper i sleep through alarms/urges to pee/my subconcious so will doing that make me more prone to wake up in the middle of the night?

[Alucinor Architecton]

thats so amazing. 8?!?! omg. thats 8 times as many as i've had total in my life. how long have you been doing this? LDing that is.

[Placebo]

Well done, the best I've had is 6 And I've never come close again .. lol (For 2 weeks I averaged over 1 LD per night)

[Matchbook]

Sorry this is a belated response, but I didn't realize more people had responded to this thread with questions. Alucinor, I've been LDing on and off since I was about 13 or so, only about once a month. But then late last year I began taking up more of an interest in it, and so I've been practicing LDing for about 7 months now. I typically have on average 1 LD a night. Sometimes 3 or 4, sometimes none, but 1 on average. I'm really not very adept at it, and don't have a lot of control yet, I just seem to have been able to attain them more easily. Copywritten, I don't necessarily understand your question, but yes, before I go to sleep I often repetitively think "I will have a LD tonight" over and over until I start to feel myself drift off. I don't know what your question indicates about your deep sleeping and the technique waking you up, but I don't think it would make a difference. I don't usually have any lucid dreams til at least 5 hours after falling asleep. After waking up at that point I usually focus on visualizing a lucid dream appearing when I close my eyes, and I drift back into either sleep or a LD.