First LD - Best recall in a long time

Hey guys!

Had my first LD ever last night! Just going to start with a tiny bit of background:

I've always been terrible at either dreaming in general, or dream recall. It felt like I hadn't dreamed in months or even years. It could be to do with the fact that I hardly ever sleep as much as I should.

Let me know what you think of what I saw, and if you have any insight into any of the dream signs, or what you think of my FA (if that's what it was). It transitioned straight from LD into being awake in the same location/place/time, felt kinda strange.

Also, a lot happened in the dream world from when I first woke at 5am to when I woke again at 5:10am.

Another quick note, my alarm was set for 3:30am to try and WILD/WBTB but I don't remember waking up then or trying either.

Also, I've been on here for I think about 3 or 4 days now, and have tried a couple of times to LD with no success (FILD/WILD/WBTB)

Also, I should probably do this!

Legend:
Non-dream - Dream - Lucid

Also, anywhere you see <snip> means I don't really remember anything in between.

Anyway...

ON TO THE DREAMS! :D

27/10/2012 - 5am - DILD

I remember riding my motorbike (road bike) in a place that had a petrol station with fluorescent lights, and I seem to remember as looking like Las Vegas. Bike was sputtering and having issues but I didn't think to pull over and get fuel. I looked down at my hand, expecting to see my gloves, instead seeing mangled looking fingers, realising I was dreaming, I looked at the digital clock on the bike and saw it changing and displaying gibberish, confirming I was dreaming. I decided to dump my bike (I would NEVER do this in real life, still surprised I did it in the dream :P) and tried to jump to initiate flight, but instead woke up in my bed, looking over at my clock to confirm I was awake, seeing a solid 5am on the clock.

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I fell back asleep and started dreaming about reuniting with school friends, one of them was really upset at the other one for some unknown reason.

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I was at work, and got asked whether I would like to go and see the boss of one of our customers in America with one of the sales guys, and I said yes (I've never been to America). I was preparing myself for a long flight, but hadn't packed anything yet, and hadn't told anybody, but then realised it was probably a video conference instead of flying all the way there, feeling a bit stupid. My boss (Professional Services) was angrily asking why all of his staff had enough time to be attending sales meetings

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I was in a newsroom kind of place, watching the show on the huge projector on the wall, showing a segment about the popularity of past American presidents. For some reason, Kevin Rudd (past Australian Prime Minister) was on the show being shown how he was popular for how good he looked as Santa Claus, a picture of him shown with Christmas decorations covering his face.

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27/10/2012 - 5:10am - FA?

Woke up and felt really groggy, looked down at my hand, finding that they were really blurry and seemed almost non-existent. Realised I was dreaming, and tried to move to get out of bed, but it felt really difficult and I couldn't move. Next second my hand appears in front of me in the same position with all fingers/details restored. Looking at the clock I realise it's 5:10am, and I'm not longer dreaming.

Thanks for reading guys! Let me know what you think :)
Also, is there a problem with posting here as opposed to DJ? I kind of like the idea of being able to ask questions sometimes, or discussing my dreams with other people :)

EDIT: Also, I have a FitBit Ultra, which allows you to track your steps/activity, but also can track your sleep and moments of awakening/etc. I haven't been using it in a while, but do you think It would be interesting to see how my body movements line up with my dreams?

Hey there, Welcome to DV!

Well, congratulations on the lucid! :party:

As for the FA thing, I can't quite figure it out either. What I was thinking was that it can also be a real awakening, where you perhaps hallucinated your hands vanishing, but the REM atonia hasn't worn off yet so you couldn't quite move. However if you looked down at your hands, then I guess you moved and thus dismisses my theory.

It can be indeed a false awakening, and if it was, congrats on recognizing it! :lol: I do know for certain that in some of my false awakenings where I become lucid, it's hard to get out of bed, and I am immobilized. Usually what I do when that happens is I try to calm down and not fight it. If it was weighing me down, I'd imagine sinking into the bed, and teleporting somewhere else.

:)

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Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Hey there, Welcome to DV!

Well, congratulations on the lucid! :party:

As for the FA thing, I can't quite figure it out either. What I was thinking was that it can also be a real awakening, where you perhaps hallucinated your hands vanishing, but the REM atonia hasn't worn off yet so you couldn't quite move. However if you looked down at your hands, then I guess you moved and thus dismisses my theory.

It can be indeed a false awakening, and if it was, congrats on recognizing it! :lol: I do know for certain that in some of my false awakenings where I become lucid, it's hard to get out of bed, and I am immobilized. Usually what I do when that happens is I try to calm down and not fight it. If it was weighing me down, I'd imagine sinking into the bed, and teleporting somewhere else.

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Thank you for the welcome! :)

Good suggestion with the FA tip, I'll try and remember to keep calm next time :)

Do you happen to know much about amount of sleep you normally need to LD?

It's already really late at night, and I have work tomorrow morning, but I'd really like to try for another LD... I'm thinking if I set my alarm for a few hours before I have to get up, I should be able to wake up and try WBTB or WILD, then wake up a couple of hours later and head to work.

I know I should just be going to bed and not being tired for work, but I really want to try again :P

Thank you :D

PS. It's almost 2am, I need to get up at 7am.. Probably not enough time to get some good sleep and get into REM, right?

Ahh I'm so sorry, I only live a few hours before you so this reply is probably late and you're most probably at work right now. ROFL.

If you've got some time to spare, go ahead and do a WBTB. I wouldn't recommend it though if you needed to get up early and needed the hours of sleep. The most common time for WBTB is around 5-7 hours into sleep. It varies for everyone though, since we have different sleep cycles. I suggest just you play around with it, and figure out what works best for you. I personally wake up about 5 hours into sleep, and stay up for more than an hour. It took me a while to figure that out x)

Good luck! If you need anything, don't hesitate to ask :3