Thread: My first LD! (edited)

--- Hi.This is a modified version of my first LD. I had to make some editing because of some deficits at the original text writed at the morning after the dream. If there's some typos and shit still somewhere, please excuse me. ----

Last night was the first time when I got a dream in which I could really be aware that I was sleeping. I have had some pseudo-concious dreams before in which I do for example some problem solving or change unconfortable situations, but they were produced by luck and repitition, and didn't last shit. My LD was caused by just a realization of a mistake and it kept on going without any spesific technique.

In my dream I first appeared to my childhood home and started to walk towards my neighbor's (my friend lives there) frontyard. While I was crossing the border between our yard and theirs, I saw that my friend's home was gone and there were only large piles of ice at it's place. When I realized the error, I started to think that I'm in a dream and I only have to do something unordinary to make it lucid. And so I did! I floated slowly to the top branches of the nearest tree, made my friends home come back. It seemed kinda blurry and I was afraid that I would wake up, so I decited to do something more interresting while I still can and bursted to the sky yelling things like "WOHOO!" like a real life homer simpson after injection of pure exhilaration

After that pretty much everything was in control for the next 30 minutes or something like that. I guess I fussed so much about doing everything I could do that I missed some basic things which would be cool to do, like going to see my hometown etc, but I'm not remorsing that a bit First I decided to go to Helsinki because I had just been there (and so remembered some of the views along the way) and thought about testing some thing along the journey. While I flying, I was varying my speed, making loops, deep dives and long jumps from the ground towards the space, things which I have always wanted to do! I also tried to go to the space but that seemed pretty impossible thing to do because as I flew higher or much faster, I noticed sensations of coldness which persisted eventhough I changed my clothing. Damn it was hard to put gloves on without hands! Rotating them to my hands were no problem, but they really didn't help so much because they seemed to flow pass my hands all the time. The feeling of coldness somewhat persisted and now when I think about it, some of this can be explained with a fact that I was sleeping with a really thin blanket and really was little cold. Still, the only thing which was somewhat a dissopointment, was maximum flying speed. Damn, I thnk I flew only about 200 km/h so that I could understand the speed by watching the views. If I tried to go faster, I had to lose the realistic view.. Too bad that I didn't think of changing the whole view to the space so I could have testested some more HC stuff, well I try to keep this in mind

While in Helsinki (I stopped flying and changed the view), I went to a place where 6 roads meet near some known finnish buildings (ugly ones) and wanted to meet some of my friends. I think I changed the view purposefully but used some free association in chosing the new replacements for those roads and crappy buildings. Result was a gothic church from the centrum of Hamburgh combined to a quite large square in front of it which looked something like the shrinked model from the red square of moscov. When I had decided a good spot, I made my first firend appear: She appeared from the crowd and walked towards me as I just floated towards her After greetings I wanted to make her fly too but I think this was not so succesful. Next I made my other friend to appear from around the corner and made him look quite goofy with some ridiculous clothes.. So, I was able to make persons to appear but couldn't influence them so perfectly as my self. After this I was losing some of the vividness and thought about roaming the streets of Helsinki.. by flying and floating of course
During it, I almost lost my lucidity because I was distracted by some interresting situations happening in the streets. When I realized this, tried to concentrate more deeply and gained again the control of my dream. After that I think I did something more, but I really don't remember much about it anymore. Lucidity ended when I was distracted again by my friend who was doing some heroic stuff and I only started to follow him later looking at the dream from the view of 3rd person.

This raises a question: do you usually dream your normal dreams from the 3rd person view? I think that it is the most common set for me (like watching a movie) and I think that starting a lucid dream is more probable when one is seeing dreams from the 1st person view, what do you think?

Well, I think the most importaint things were told, I hope that you could give some suggestions how I could could get rid of those limitations I experienced and how to improve vividness. I probably do some light-sound stimulation experiments with a EEG device during my summerjob in hopes that I can induce lucid dreams; so your knownledge would really be welcome! I know that there's tons of helpful text to read here, but I think trying many methods would be too time consuming for my purposes. So, those of you who have already tried all those methods and think that one of them is superior to others, please share your views!