Thread: Your First Lucid Dream

I first read about lucid dreaming about six months ago. I kept a dream journal for about a week, but I didn't make much more of an effort and left it there.

Then about a month ago my alarm clock woke me up. I was only half awake and turned it off on instinct and immediately fell back to sleep. While dreaming I suddenly recalled going back to sleep when I should have gotten up, and then I realized I was dreaming. My first thought was "I have to find a way to wake myself up!", but I lost lucidity before I got the chance to do anyting about it. :p

This was the most exciting situation I've ever encountered in dreams (the lucidity part, not the realizing-I-overslept part).
And now I really want to experience more of such.

I can't remember when I had mine but I can remember it. I was just dreaming of reality really, going by a normal day (great dream hey :p). But then I discovered I could fly (Can't remember how it was initiated ) I remember flying really fast across water, but being really afraid as I was going so fast. Also, I could feel the wind hitting my face and everything. My biggest concern was flying too fast and not being able to stop before hittin a building I tried to go really high too but when I got very high, I think I became scared and lost my ability and began to drop down before regaing the ability and being able to continue to fly. When the dream was finishing, I began to slowly lose my ability and could only float to ground when jumping of something (like Knuckles from the Sonic series).

I've only been able to do the flying thing once more before, but I was in a storylined dream which seemed like it was in a shady New York at night.

All this was before I knew about Lucidity too, so hopefully i'll be able to re-create this again soon at will

My first lucid dream that lasted more than a few seconds...I was going up a long, skinny ladder that had objects attached to it. I don't know what the objects were or what they were for. I thought to myself, why am I on this weird ladder, and suddenly realized I was dreaming. I immediately rubbed my hands together and told myself to stay lucid, stay lucid! I was so happy, I climbed down the ladder and started running around looking for someone to tell. I saw a few people off in the distance, but they disappeared. Finally, I saw a family of a man, woman and two girls. I shouted to them, hey, I'm dreaming, and you are dream people! They smiled and waved. Then I worried that I had offended them, so I said, I'm glad you're here! They smiled some more. One of the girls came over to me, and started jumping around with me, sharing my joy at being lucid. I was trying to remember what it was that I wanted to do when I became lucid, but I couldn't remember (it was to fly). I finally remembered that I had read that the sky often looks beautiful in dreams, so I decided to check it out. I zoomed upward toward the sky until I encountered a thin sheet of ice blocking my way. I broke through it and continued, and then came to another sheet of ice, and another. I heard someone say, she will never make it. The ice kept forming until I was in a tunnel of ice. I finally decided, screw it, I'm wasting my lucidity on this ice, and headed back down to earth. There, I remember crawling down a tile hallway, marveling over how real the tile felt. I was thinking that I should try closing my eyes, and thinking up a new scene, but I don't think I did. I think I started losing lucidity here, because I don't remember much else, and soon woke up. Very incredible experience and I can't wait to have another one.

Actually the first time I became interested in dreams and being lucid was the first time I actually became lucid. It was medieval times and I said I must be dreaming and said I want full control. Let me tell you I created an army with my mind to fight against another army and I was on top of a castle watching my people win. It was AMAZING... Sure I have dreams now very vivid but not as much control as what I had!

My first Lucid Dream (I just found out what they were from this site) was when I was really little. After finding out about nightmares I went to sleep each day with the determination to NOT be afraid anymore. And then when my nightmare happened, I was running away from a Gargoyle / Vampire thing and I defeated it, and then I turned into a Superman-wolverine thing and started to fly around slaying monsters.

Mine was a DEILD experiance but i did not know of DEILD at the time or that what i did had a name, soo I had just woken up from a nap but didnt move or open my eyes and i just thought about lucid dreaming (which at the time was merely a cool thing my friend had spoken to me about) after a short time i entered a kitchen which i did not recognize and immediately i knew i was dreaming! I became over excited and began to fall and in the dream i was holding on to the kitchen counter with all my might trying to remain in this lucid state i had entered seconds before, well i could not and when i woke i found myself literally like jumping with a very powerful leap from my bed into a standing position, it was very odd. Since i havnt been able to become lucid and its rather depressing!

My lucid dream was so weird, but it was the most spectacular experience i've ever witnessed. This particular dream lasted a very long time, possibly 30 minutes or so. The first thing that happened was that i saw this asian chick walk by and she motioned me to follow her. Since asian chicks are my weakness, i happily followed her into a room. I wanted to impress her so i tried to create a beautiful crown for her. It actually worked and she loved it. She then asked me if i wanted to have sex. Needless to say we did, i mean if you had that opportunity in a dream you would definitely take it. Anyways, that actually lasted a long time until a man walked in on us. I was very mad at this man and the first thing i could think of doing is just telling the man to die, and he did. The asian chick got scared of my powers and ran of. Instantly i bolted after her and i explained what was going on and how i was dreaming and she was just a figment of my imagination. Her reaction was unexpected. What she did was let bygones be bygones and we both made up. I asked her what her name was and she replied that her name was Jade. I then remebered that i should try flying in a dream, so i told her to hold on tight to me and we flew over a beach.
The strange thing about this dream though is that i think i've seen this girl in other dreams before.

I have only had 2 lucid dreams. :'(
My first one was awesome. First, there was this wolf that people were trying to catch becuase it would break down doors then go into the house and kill the whole family inside. So of course I saw it clawing at our door (I could see it because it was a glass door, the back door) and we went and hid in the back bedroom, which was my parents room. Well, it could smell us still. It got in the house and was clawing at the bedroom door, so we went into the bathroom (my parents have one attached to their bedroom). Well, I had had a very similar dream before. That was when I suddenly realized I was dreaming. So, I held out my hand, it glowed blue, and then I said random jibberish. The wolf magically dissapeared! (Not surprsingly, I was in the middle of reading Eragon at the time) I was thinking then "Omg! My first LD!!!" Anyways, I went outside onto the deck and jumped off. I could fly. I flew to my neighbors house, then I decided to try spinning. So, i teleported to this lake that is in the forest behind my house. Only, it looked different. Then, I decided to try spinning back to my house, then I wanted to make a DC and try walking into a mirror. However, I somehow did it wrong and ended up in an outdoor, 70s-themed, pizza party. I have no idea where that came from. Anyways, my friend Jenny was there. She started talking about volleyball. Then, I was like "ok, on with this," and i was about to make a DC but I woke up.

My first lucid dream kept changing dream scenario. It changed from the simp sons family house to a random forest. I attempted to improve clarity of through in my dream and attempted to fly but lost lucidity as soon as I tried to fly really.

I was probably 8-9 years old and i had just seen Buffy the Vampire slayer the movie, and was having a nightmare where the spectral vampires were tormenting me in my yard, then i realized that i was dreaming and they werent real, so i started punching them and man it was satsifying, all my fear went out the window.

I was around 7 or 8 when I received my first lucid dream in 1994 involving two girls. I heard moaning in pain after the pink kaleidoscopic patterns faded out, coming from a young woman secretly named "Amanda". Now 14 years later (I'm going to be 22 in 3 months), I thought I was too young to be getting dreams like that at 7 or 8. I was even inspired by this dream to build a storybook character based from her 13 years later (just last year). She's born in 1985, April 16th.

my first lucid lasted 35 seconds. i was falling through the sky after falling from a plane. i did a reality check and found i was dreaming. i immediatley stopped falling and was able to fly around. i became very excited and lost the dream though

I had my first lucid dream last night! I tried WILDing last night but i just fell asleep.
I had a dream, I was walking down a road and something just told me that it was a dream. I told myself that and i stopped the scene.

I shook my hands infront of me so I didn't get out of lucid. Then someone tried to attack me or something and I stopped them and i lifted off the ground and they freaked out.

Then I remembered the Jan. Task of the month about asking a dream character what my new years resolution was but i decided there were better things to do. And after that the lucid dream ended and some more not lucid dreams.

Im happy I had a lucid but i know it could have gone better. Still happy.

Used FILD(instant WILD). Got out of bed and the lights in my room was on. I looked in my mirror and I was bald( I have hair in RL) Went by the stairs and my dog bear came out to me from the darkness- he was the size of baby( Hes a HUGE German shepard!!). I went up stairs and out of curiosity went to my parents room and found my mom standing over my dad with a bloody knife. She chased me down the stairs into my room and When I slammed my door I woke up lol... kinda scarred me for a long while.

I was a kid. I had a dream that I was outside, fishing by myself in my grandmother's pond. It was almost evening, but not quite evening enough for the brillant hues in the sky to turn shades of pink and such. It was warm.
Her pond was on a lot of acres, and the scene itself wasn't unusual as I went out there a lot by myself to explore and see what I could see. I started to get bored with fishing and went to the side of the pond with all the mud to search for baby snapping turtles (also a common experience). I felt the mud squish between my feet as I ventured out only a tiny bit into the pond.
I peered down into the water and saw my reflection. Closer observation I saw some sea shells in the water, then seaweed, the long type, flowing in the wind type, ghost type. Then I saw a talking fish and mermaid type people. I jumped in for a swim and it was a lot of fun, I dove down far, and suddenly thought, I think I am dreaming...I think I can do whatever I want to do, so I shot up out of the water flying straight in the air. It was A LOT of fun, flying is still one of my most favorite things to do. I flew over to my friends home over their house, I flew over the old dirt road, I flew over trees, over a barn, I flew back into the pond and back out, that is all I remember. Then I woke up.

when i was a kid, i had a dream that i was in this consignment/used furniture store that my mom used to drag me to ALL THE TIME. (i hated it) i was in the store, thinking "oh man, i hate this place, i want out." then i realised "hey, wait a second, im dreaming!!! maybe i can wake my self up if i close my eyes any open them!" i do this once, and find myself still in the store. a second time, and im back in my room!

please note: i had never heared of lucid dreaming before this, the eye open/close thing was an instinct.

long before i knew about what lucid dreaming was I had this dream in this place that was really pretty.... a lake in the woods with these like tribal people... and i woke up.... i layed there and closed my eyes and thought to myself, "i really really want to go back there it was soooo pretty"... i don't know how it happened but next thing I knew I was there and it was awesome... i ran up to the lake and put my hands in it and it was really cold like real lake water and I said aloud, "I did it.. I really did it!"...... now I know there is a word for "it" ....

I had this lucid dream when I was about 9 years old. There were alligators running around with rocket launchers, shooting at me. I was hiding behind a table and rockers were exploding all around me. Then I thought to myself "Since when are there alligators that can use rocket launchers? I must be in a dream." So I was like, "Hmmm I want a rocket launcher" and suddenly one popped up in my hand. And then I proceeded to jump/fly around and shoot alligators with my rocket launcher.

This was before I knew what lucid dreams were. I found out about lucid dreams about 6 years later.

I had my first lucid dream yesterday! I'm so excited.

So yesterday, I took a nap around 3 pm, knowing that I didn't need to wake up any certain time, that I could just enjoy my sleep and try to have an LD. As I drifted off to sleep, I told myself that I would know I was dreaming.

Next thing I knew, I was dreaming that I woke up. I got out of bed, and was standing over by my closet. I looked down at my hands, and they were weird looking-- I couldn't see any of the lines on my hands, and they looked kind of webbed, in a way, and they were kind of glowing white. I remember thinking that I must be dreaming.

Then, I then went outside of my bedroom, and I was trying to summon David Duchovny, because I've been telling myself the first thing I'm going to do if I ever have a lucid dream is summon him, because I've had a major crush on him for 11 years, LOL.

Anyway, so I was trying to make David Duchovny appear, but he never did, and I was frustrated. There was some other guy there, though, but I don't know who it was.

Then, in my dream, I woke up, and was telling someone (I think my mom) that I'd had a lucid dream.

During the whole thing (which didn't last very long-- maybe a minute or 2), I believe I was at a VERY LOW level of lucidity-- but I was still lucid, nonetheless.

I was about 13 when I had a dream i was out on some strange street. I didn't know where I was or how i got there. So after thinking for a second I remember going to sleep and knew I was dreaming. So being 13 I started looting and breaking windows lol.

Second time again when I was 13. I was being chased after running behind my house I noticed my grammar school was there and it shouldn't have been. To prove I was dreaming I started biting my hand. it was very strange because the blood felt like sand running down my arm. very similar to how it feels when you get a tooth pulled and the blood pours out but you are numb.

I often have dreams where I fly and move stuff around like telekinesis.

I was in a store buying these new gameboys that were really small and looked a bit like Gameboy Advance, but somehow they didn't have color. And I was there with a childhood friend of my brother, my brother and a childhood friend, so when were ready to buy them I suddently realise "haven't I done something like this before?", then I suddently understand that I have. 10-13 years ago the same persons and I were in a store and the childhood friend of my brother bought a traditional Gameboy, I still remember it flawlessly.

Then when I was lucid I didn't do any RC, I just knew that I was dreaming. So I decide to fly. I lift of from the ground, I don't fly forwards I just lift of from the ground, then the ground looks smaller and smaller under me, suddently everything goes black, but I can still feel the feeling of flying. Then the dream fades and I go into a different dream.

This lucid dream happend over 4 weeks ago since then I've had 2 others.

I find it quite interesting that we are able to recall our first lucid dreams very clearly, even though it might've been years since it happened. Here's mine.




Basically, I was snowboarding down a mountain, and when I got to the bottom I realized that there were no other people there, and that the sky was darker than it should've been, since I don't normally snowboard in the dark.

Once I was at the bottom, I thought to myself: "Well dang, there's no lift or anything... how the heck am I supposed to get back up?"

So me, in this dream, pondered for a few seconds... then I simply pointed my board back up the other way, and all of a sudden started snowboarding back *up* the hill!!!! At that point I was just having the time of my life realizing that I can snowboard perpetually with no real method of thrust (ie, gravity).




That's basically the end of the dream, even though it continues from there.

Where previously before I had suffered from nightmare often enough to realize that I did suffer from nightmares, I have yet to have a single even slightly scary dream. It seems my brain is able to tell when I am dreaming the vast majority of the time, even though most of my dreams I encounter, I "see" them as basically going to a way better movie theatre and not having to pay for it.

I see a room in Black and White, in more detail than I would have ever expected, and I woke up after 5 seconds. (sigh)

Back in 1985 i was reading laberges book on lucid dreaming. been along time but i think section was on religious experiences in dreams. about after an hour of reading i put down book and went to sleep.

i dreamed i was walking down a city street and found it hard to walk.. like i was walking in marshmellow goo or something. i looked down to find my feet sinking with each step into the pavement of marshmellow. i began to find it harder and harder to walk and i began walking like a drunk man swaying to and fro. people were walking by lookin at me strangely and then a police car went by and i thought to self if i don't get this walking thing under control they (cops) will think i'm drunk in public and hassle me. it's at that moment i realized i was dreaming and thought what do i care this is a dream. suddenly i felt my feet become unstuck and i began floating upwards toward high voltage power lines. i thought for a second that i would be electrocuted then i passed through the wires and lightning passed through my body and i felt energized. it's at that moment i thought i can go anywhere i want to go. and so i headed straight up.

i looked down as i flew higher and higher into the sky. the street became a city then a state as i flew higher into the sky. i looked up and could see the stars. i looked back down and now i could see the whole earth floating in the heavens. i passed the moon and accelerated even faster. i passed all the planets of the solar system and then left it behind. soon i was looking back at the milky way galaxy as i went faster and faster in the night sky. pretty soon i was passing hundreds upon hundreds of galaxies in the blink of an eye. i then noticed a faint soft golden glow at my back as i was travelling backwards through space taking in the whole cosmos of creation. the light behind me got brighter as i approached it and the universe behind me shrank to a dot (back to big bang size). then the universe disappeared and there was nothing but darkness and silence as far as i could see except for the soft golden light behind me that now had become much brighter. gently i found myself slowing rapidly but easily and then i ran into a soft barrier that stopped my advance. it was like falling into a soft feathery matress suspended behind me. i then heard a voice whisper into my right ear very softy, "if you desire to go further you cannot return". i thought for a moment that means i'd be dead and for just a milisecond i got scared. but before i could think or say anything i passed everything in reverse order back to earth. galaxies, milky way, solar system, planets, moon, earth, then i suddenly felt myself enter my body and i sat up amazed but frustrated that i had not conquered my fear to take that last step and cross fully into whatever lay beyond that barrier of light.

this dream occurred when i was 20 i'm now 43 with many years of lucid practice under my belt.
i've practiced a variety of dream induction techniques over the years and can induce dreams at will.
generally i only induce now if i have a dream that i can't figure out through the use of the symbolic method and i'll induce a dream concerning the character setting etc i wish to understand and ask it directly what it means or if it has knowledge i require to grow.
i have used a combination wild, mild, dild, elid. as well as autohypnosis and zen meditation. i have used oneirogens as well as entheogens (primarily Datura) in my endeavors to acquire knowledge of the inner and outer worlds. i have been practicing shamanic trance induction for many years now and find that it has helped immensely. actually my shamanic trances allow waking entrance into that same realm fully conscious.

what has helped me the most in learning the meaning of my dreams i think is my fascination and study of them as well as my intererest in world mythology that began when i read joseph cambells "Hero with a thousand faces" about the same time as the dream i described above. i have had many dreams that are found in myth. for instance i have travelled the cosmic world tree see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trees_in_mythology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_mundi which is predominant in all religions and before that in shamanism. i have spoken with the 3 muses/norns at the trees' base http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3Den%26sa%3DN and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norn i have figured out the most of my own personal dream symology as well as experienced a wide variety of cosmis archetypes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetypes such as the wise old man, the warrior and the wizard. i have met and conversed with interdimensional beings some nice others not so. I have died in several dreams so i can tell you that it generally means you are metaphorically dying to something whether its a way of expereincing things a habit etc. generally when u get reborn in the dream. usually this parallels waking life transitions. ie moving from puberty to adulthood, from college student to working adult, single to married, from drug addict to clean, etc... etc ... etc.. the same things the myths talk about. i view my dreams as based on the jungian idea of a leter to myself concerning my waking life and also as as the spirit realm ie that place when dead. the dream state is the half way point for me. i might also mention about ten years ago i experienced 4 minutes of flat line activity in an emergency room. ie i had a NDE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDE since then i've seen the world alot different.