First Lucid (Omg!)

[benzoe590]

So, I've had a few kinda lucids before, but this one was on a whole other level. I've been trying to Lucid dream since August 29 and it's now May 16. After a couple of False awakenings, I checked the clock by my bed twice, and at one point it had read, like, 62:25. Yeah, sure. Also, It had changed when I looked back. I ran around outside, and within about ten seconds, I had turned night was turned into day. Some big tank looking things were driving around, and I hid from them, but thought to myself "don't think they're going to attack you, because then they will". I realized I had nothing to run from but hid a few more seconds, through a turret behind me, and tried to fly. I didn't end up flying, but I hovered for a few seconds until I tried to move forward. The dream started to fade, but I rubbed my hands for like two seconds, and it was totally better. Eventually I started to run down a street with a bunch of portals on the pavement (the one's from the game "Portal"). I don't think I was fully lucid, but getting there. Eventually the dream faded again and I forgot to rub my hands. I think the whole thing lasted 4 minutes tops, and that's IN the dream, but my concept of time even in the dream could have been different. What do you think? Any ideas on how I'm progressing? Edit: Is sleep paralysis common, and does lucid dreaming increase the chance of it? I know that it shouldn't be anything to be afraid of, but it's just not something I want to experience.

[Caenis]

Hey benzoe, congrats on the LD! Now that you had your first long LD, it should be easier for more to follow. Glad all your hard work has paid off. Good job on stabilizing the dream too. Sleep paralysis only happens when you're using WILD, and it doesn't happen for everyone. If you're not using WILD as your induction technique, then you'll probably never encounter it.

[NewZealand]

Yea gratz! You needa create a dream journal on the site, i would subscribe!

[littlezoe]

Sleep paralysis only happens when you're using WILD, and it doesn't happen for everyone. If you're not using WILD as your induction technique, then you'll probably never encounter it. Not entirely true. You can experience sleep paralysis when waking up, but it's rare for most people. Still, you don't only experience it during WILD, that's what i wanted to correct. Oh and grats benzoe

[Caenis]

Not entirely true. You can experience sleep paralysis when waking up, but it's rare for most people. Still, you don't only experience it during WILD, that's what i wanted to correct. Oh and grats benzoe Thank you for correcting me, I shouldn't give out wrong information! I've learned something new too.

[Borovan]

Sleep paralysis, in fact, happens every night to everyone. It's the body's way of preventing you from acting out your dreams. Although, most people have never actually "recognized" that they were in Sleep Paralysis, which is what I think you meant to say. Like me, I have never experienced it, but it still happens to me everynight, I am just never awake/aware when it occurs.

[benzoe590]

Thanks for the feedback! 4 minutes is long? hmm... I still find it weird that I had like three false awakenings BEFORE the lucid, and none after. It was quite a shock seeing the clock read different times when I looked back at it, though. I'd imagine some of you know what I mean, because other than the phrase "Pure shock" I can't really describe it.

[Borovan]

Hmm I think I know what you mean. But, instead of saying false awakening, could you mean that you were simply dreaming before you thought you were and thought you were still awake, before you thought you fell asleep? If so, this has happened to me. I was trying to WILD and before I fell asleep (or thought I fell asleep), I opened my eyes and was looking around in my room but I heard a radio playing in the background...Realizing I didnt have a radio in my room, I knew it was a dream...I immediately woke up though because I got too excited but I was in fact dreaming when I thought I hadn't fallen asleep yet

[littlezoe]

Sleep paralysis, in fact, happens every night to everyone. It's the body's way of preventing you from acting out your dreams. Although, most people have never actually "recognized" that they were in Sleep Paralysis, which is what I think you meant to say. Like me, I have never experienced it, but it still happens to me everynight, I am just never awake/aware when it occurs. Of course, but we were talking about the sleep paralysis that occurs while you are already awake... because the thread poster asked about that....

[benzoe590]

Hmm I think I know what you mean. But, instead of saying false awakening, could you mean that you were simply dreaming before you thought you were and thought you were still awake, before you thought you fell asleep? If so, this has happened to me. I was trying to WILD and before I fell asleep (or thought I fell asleep), I opened my eyes and was looking around in my room but I heard a radio playing in the background...Realizing I didnt have a radio in my room, I knew it was a dream...I immediately woke up though because I got too excited but I was in fact dreaming when I thought I hadn't fallen asleep yet Nope. I had an actual non-lucid dream, woke up, thought "No, that wasn't a dream, I just was visualizing it in my head but not dreaming, so I'm not gonna record it (I use a microphone to record it, then write it down later)". In the morning this thought made no sense. I went back to sleep, then I woke up again, a bunch of weird stuff happened, Woke up AGAIN and realized I had a false awakening, and then realized that I was STILL in a dream (This is when I became lucid). So that makes 2 maybe 3 false awakenings, but one of them turned into a lucid.

[etherealspirit]

Congratulations and have fun.

[AscendedSleeper]

Sleep paralysis, in fact, happens every night to everyone. It's the body's way of preventing you from acting out your dreams. Although, most people have never actually "recognized" that they were in Sleep Paralysis, which is what I think you meant to say. Like me, I have never experienced it, but it still happens to me everynight, I am just never awake/aware when it occurs. This is actually incorrect terminology. The state of bodily paralysis which everyone enters when they dream is called REM atonia. It is only when someone becomes aware of REM atonia that it becomes sleep paralysis. I know this doesn't really matter, but I just think it is unnecessarily confusing to have no distinction in terminology between SP and REM atonia. Thanks for reading.