First LD in well over a year aaaand ...

[the beauty who sleeps]

it only lasted a few short moments! a few nanoseconds even! lol But hey, it's a huge accomplishment for me! To make a long detailed dream short, or perhaps shorter, I was at my parents house in the kitchen when I noticed a tornado twister outside the window. I yelled at everyone to get into the basement. On my way to the basement I even felt the house shaking, as if the twister was right above us. I realized after things settled down that no one else followed me down. I went back upstairs, and was frantically wanting to know why (once I found them) they didn't follow me down to safety. My mom told me that there had been no tornado. I told her that couldn't be possible, it shook the house, I'd seen it. Everyone else sided with her, acting confused as if they had no idea what I was talking about. I than began to doubt my sanity. I really began to think I was insane and it was all some sort of hallucination from my mind. It suddenly dawned on me, that perhaps I was dreaming. I wasn't sure what to do at first to prove it was a dream. I was standing (or perhaps even sitting) at the kitchen table, and I took my finger and attempted to push it through the table, knowing that if my finger went through, I'd know for sure it was dream. Sure enough, my finger went right through the table with just a little resistence. I was rather relieved at that point that I wasn't insane. But I began to wake up, and willed myself to stay in the dream. I lost the lucidity at that point, only to go into a regular dream. I found myself talking to my mom, telling her about the tornado twister dream I'd had. I told her how I'd been lucid and that it was so unbelievably real. I than said something along the lines of , "It was as real and as vivid as it is right now how I'm talking to you" LOL Go figure, I have a brief moment of lucidity and than I go on into another dream, talking about how I was lucid!! I hadn't slept good at all those last few hours I'd been sleeping, and I'd only been sleeping for about 5 hours when I had this dream. (my kids kept waking up crying out for some reason or another for about an hour and half, at least one of them waking every half hour, so I would just get back to sleep when someone else would wake me up! very frustrating .. have no idea why their sleep kept being disturbed) I probably could of stayed in the lucid dream if they hadn't woken me up! *sighs* oh well, next time!

[Clairity]

After a year + any tidbit of lucidity is highly welcome! Hopefully you opened the tap and now lucidity will start to flow! (Get it "tap".. "flow".. ) I'm really happy for you.. I can imagine what a relief it must be (especially if you had started to wonder if you were ever going to be lucid again)! Congrats and may your lucid dreams come with more regularity, be longer and more vivid!

[the beauty who sleeps]

Originally posted by Clairity After a year + any tidbit of lucidity is highly welcome! Hopefully you opened the tap and now lucidity will start to flow! (Get it \"tap\".. \"flow\".. ) I'm really happy for you.. I can imagine what a relief it must be (especially if you had started to wonder if you were ever going to be lucid again)! Congrats and may your lucid dreams come with more regularity, be longer and more vivid! Thanks I sure hope I've opened the tap ... I've had quite a few well remembered dreams in the past few nights to make it seem like maybe I have. I was so excited too when I woke up after the lucid dream. I was almost tempted to wake my husband up shouting I'd had a LD (or at least begun one lol) but than I realized he's a grump when he wakes up and he really isn't interested about lucid dreaming at all.

[Tornado Joe]

Hooray for Beauty :bravo: Was this your first LD ever or just in the last year? I just started LDing this year, and I can't imagine going a whole year without one now. Even though I don't LD often now, going to bed every night for a whole year in hopes of an LD has got to wear you down. Good job for sticking with it. Hopefully an even bigger payoff awaits you! I have yet to become lucid via a reality check - mine have been mostly through dreamsign. Hopefuly you'll be able to keep bringing that finger RC back into more dreams. I wonder if you'll keep remembering it now that it worked fo you this once? I've noticed that since identifying my dreamsign, I've seen less and less of it. Is it the same for reality checks.

[the beauty who sleeps]

Originally posted by Tornado Joe Hooray for Beauty :bravo: Was this your first LD ever or just in the last year? I just started LDing this year, and I can't imagine going a whole year without one now. Even though I don't LD often now, going to bed every night for a whole year in hopes of an LD has got to wear you down. Good job for sticking with it. Hopefully an even bigger payoff awaits you! It was my first in just the last year. I was having them on a regular basis for a while a couple years ago (probably because I was sleeping more than) and would have one about every 3-4 weeks. And yep it was rather wearing me down a bit at times wondering when the next one would be. I've yet to do a reality check out of habit in a dream, this dream I suspected it may be a dream and so tried to prove it. Most of the time my mind makes up silly excuses for whatever is happeneing in the dream and I don't question it. Like if a dog is talking, it's only because it's a new breed of dog that sorta thing. One thing I have noticed in the past, is that with the majority of my lucid dreams, I've woken up from them lying on my back. I hardly ever sleep on my back as a result of it not being as comfortable. If I try to fall asleep on my back, no matter how tired I am, it just seems to keep me awake. Perhaps this has something to do with bringing on lucidity for me. Who knows, but worth looking into.

[Tornado Joe]

with the majority of my lucid dreams, I've woken up from them lying on my back. I hardly ever sleep on my back as a result of it not being as comfortable. If I try to fall asleep on my back, no matter how tired I am, it just seems to keep me awake. Perhaps this has something to do with bringing on lucidity for me. Who knows, but worth looking into.[/b] Yeah, I think there's a few posts about sleeping positions. I remember reading that lying flat on your back seems to work better for WILDing. It's usually the position I'm in when I try WILD. It might have something to do with feeling "centered". Or maybe the fact that none of your body parts are overlapping each other, which, after a while might cause discomfort. I'm usually most comfortable on my side, but after a while my shoulder either starts to hurt or goes numb.