Thread: My first lucid dream!!

Hello everyone, I'm new here

I was practicing lucid dreaming (MILD) for about 2 weeks - started a dream journal and began doing RCs and occasionally ADA. But I never thought I'd achieve a DILD after only 2 weeks!

So, to the details:

I did some MILDing when I went to sleep. I set an alarm for 6:30 in order to attempt FILD (there's a thread about it here but I can't post links yet) but woke up naturally a bit before that and turned off the alarm. I started relaxing and waited until I was very tired to try doing the FILD thing but I guess I forgot about that and just fell asleep. (I came across FILD when the topic took over the lucid dreaming subreddit with tons of success stories. I tried it 4 times and it hasn't worked yet for me)

The dream:

I was in an indoor place with a bunch of people my age. It was the entrance to some auditorium. The doors were opened slightly and we could see strange stuff inside. Apparently there was a dragon-like monster inside the auditorium.
People start to panic and I'm not sure what their plan is, but I tell them "I'm going upstairs to find a fire escape." So I move away from them, and when walking alone somewhere at this time I just spontaneously think to myself "Hey, I'm dreaming!" without doing any RCs... just like that. And I was sure of it. I started getting excited but remembered I should calm down and I did.

I had planned things to do while lucid since I started with lucid dreaming, and I remembered first thing I wanted to do is spin and imagine being in a field. That didn't work so well, the spinning was realistic (I didn't float and spin rapidly or something) and it didn't really do anything. So I decided to focus on small details. I looked at signs around me and they were real letters and words but they didn't make any sense.

So after stabilizing a bit from that I decide to move on with my checklist. Next thing I had planned while lucid is to fly (over a field hopefully but I couldn't get to one this time). Spinning didn't do anything before so I kept walking and looked for doors. There was an opening through a wall which was like a very opaque glass, and when I walked towards it I saw a blurry city. I started running towards it. I got to the edge and jumped and started flying over the city.

After a few minutes I landed somewhere, lost lucidity and woke up.