Your First Lucid Dream

OoHhRight!!! My first post in this wonderful forum:

Alright, my first lucid dream occured about two month ago. It took place in "the basement" which the music room at my school is refered by. In there, I was practicing my part on the suspended cymbals I needed to play in an upcomming concert.

I suppose I was worried about not being perfect, for this was on my mind for awhile. In the basement, my percussion instructor was crtiticising me on everyrthing, including technique on holding the mallets. Then, he did something weird: He lowered the stand to what should have been unplayable and impossible, to the floor, and played. Some seconds later, I realized this shouldnt happen so I raised it twice my size, another impossibility. It is then that I realized: "WHoa Im dreaming. I shouldnt be down here practicing alone with my teacher"

SO, I turned around an punched my instructor. I started waking up when I realized that he became unconscious, and as I continiued to wail on him, we would not BLEED. I tried spinning to keep awake, but the image faded to black and I woke up shortly after€

I was 11 years old and having a nightmare..I was in a barn and there was some kind of creature or monster up in the loft above me. I was scared and ran out of the barn but outside was a woods..and the ground was covered in twigs and stones and for some reason I was barefoot. I tried to run but it was hard and hurt my feet. I could hear the monster behind me though and tried to run as fast as I could. Then suddenly, I have no idea why..it occured to me that I was dreaming and that if I was dreaming..that meant that the monster couldn't really hurt me. So I stopped running and turned around. There was no monster there.
So I started to walk and realized that I was still barefoot. I thought to myself..I need shoes. And just that quickly I had shoes on.
Ever since then..it has just come naturally to me.

About 5 years ago, I was in a troubling personal situation and had the first and only lucid dream I have clear recall about. I was being chased by a mean dog. I was frightened and trying to run away from it. All of the sudden, I realized I was dreaming so I turned around facing the dog and yelled "Stop!" And the dog stopped and went away. When I woke up, I decided to take charge of that troubling personal situation.
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my first lucid dream was only a few days ago. i was in the living room on the sofa, staring at the TV (which was switched off). i suddenly jerk up, and for no reason at all i came to the conclusion that i was in a dream. I reckon i was in a fairly low level of lucidity, foe as soon as irealised i was dreaming, everything stared expanding, and for no reason i threw a brown leather block into a corner of the room. everything went black at that corner and then i woke up. it rocked!!. i guess i was having a pretty hyper night because i hade about 3 'waking dreams' that night too.

I think I was about 7 or 8 and (in my dream) I was at school; these witches were chasing me and I was so scared. Then one of the teachers came along and told me I was dreaming. I remember realising that meant I could do anything now, but then I woke up. :shakehead2:

Well I encountered my first Lucid Dream a few weeks back ( i had no idea that there was a term for it back then). What the dream was initially about was playing the PlayStation 3 (I'm a techno nut). But I remembered previous dreams in earlier childhood when I thought I had a Super Nintendo or something like that only to wake up disappointed. It was then that I realised that it was in fact a dream. For the first time I acknowledged that it was a dream, something that I thought to be impossible. But that also meant that I was disappointed that the PlayStation 3 was fake so I kept yelling in my mind that it was a dream and that I no longer wanted to experience it. I had not thought that I could control the dream to the extent of the theory shown in the Matrix movies. Had I known that then I would have probably tried to harness my power. But here's something to help me with, is it possible to learn new facts in a dream?

I was so thankful for my first lucid experience. I was 5 or 6 and I went lucid at the end of a recurring nightmare I had been having since I was 3. In the dream I was carrying a very important parcel; an empty single serving container of chocolate milk with the top cut off filled with computer disks. I was being chased by Death, who had killed my uncle for the disks, but not before he was able to signal to me with his eyes to take the container and flee, leaving my cup of orange juice on the stairs. Somehow, I made my way to a London like place and was sitting infront of Big Ben on a bench, mourning my uncle and wondering what to do with the disks. Next to me, there was a teeny hamburger that I realized was a beetle. It flew away as a giant wolf jumped out of the clock face. I knew Death was coming and I ran up a tower. Unfortunately he was there and sent an odd wrought iron monster to kill me and ultimately he got the disks. I finally went lucid after having this dream many times right before I was usually devoured. I shouted "This is a dream!" Death looked at me in horror, and I woke up. I was the last time I had the dream.

The first lucid after I knew about LDing was less traumatic. I went lucid while floating during a jump. I remember to stabilize, did some spinning and then flew to the top of the big cottonwood tree in my front yard. Stood up there for a while and almost lost lucidity, and then I decided to try to find the spirit of my dearly departed dog Betty. Instead a big hound came hoping down the street on his hind legs. Betty did come, but she morphed into a cat except for 1 leg. Then I decided to change the dreamscene and closed my dream eyes, which almost caused me to wake up and I could sorta feel my real body. When I reopened them, I was in a cabin by a lake. I was hoping for something more interesting. After looking through the window at the lake, I decided to look around the room. There was a weird spinning porthole on the wall. I stuck my hand in there and got sucked in. I then had a FA, but didn't realize it.

My first LD was quick. I was standing around in an airport terminal type place with no windows and then i realized out of nowhere i was dreaming. I was like o hell yes, and i noticed one of those airport cart thingys for handicapped people to get around the terminal right next to me. I grabbed the airport guy on the cart by the shirt and threw him to the ground and he just kept looking at me in complete disbelief that i was doing what i wanted. its funny to remember the expression on his face, its probably the thing i remember most. he was so shocked he couldn't say anything, so i jumped on the cart and drove away through the terminal. it was going too slow so i kind of said to myself, faster and it started zooming off and then i woke up. the wierd thing about the terminal was that it was more like a hallway and there was basically nothing around just walls and a few other things i can't remember.

But there was a lucid i had a really long time ago that forgot about. It lasted about 3 seconds. I was walking around an Indian marketplace and i was trying to find a way out. so i stood up on this ledge like thing and started knocking on the sky and saying, hey wake up. When i realized it wasnt working i said, well thats not working, and lost lucidity

My first lucid dream that I remember wasn't that long ago. I was in school and sitting in second period, and like normal to past time I started to think about what my homework from the previous class was. When I realized I never attened first period I knew it was a dream, so I left the class and don't remember much from there. Next I was flying, but had to sit in a chair in order to do it. There were lots of woods below me and a train stopped underneath me. I landed next to it and my brother asked me if I would help him fly, so I did, with extreme difficulty. And that is all that I remember.

First post. :)

Well, about one month ago, I tried the MILD technique, just for fun. I don't remember exactly how it happened, but the message that I kept repeating in my mind ("I will remember I'm dreaming") eventually started being repeated in a dream I had.

I was onboard some ship from Star Trek, and all of a sudden I heard the phrase. I performed a reality check, and it worked. I was so excited! In fact, I got too excited, flew up, hit my head on the ship, and then woke up. Or, at least I thought I did. I had a false awakening, and I was tricked into thinking I had actually awoken.

Since then, I have only had about 3 1/2 lucid dreams.

This was my first lucid dream. Has it back in about 1986This dream took place some time around 1985 or 1986 I think.
I am laying in bed and my the headboard of my bed is a bookcase.. I am looking into the bookcase but
its like it is a window and I can see cars outside going up and down the road.. This is what clues me in
that I am dreaming. I get up out of the bed and I feel light as air. I walk or float rather into the living
room. I go thru the door outside and I get the feeling that there is some presence there and its not a
good feeling. I see some people and they are coming after me. I panic and try to get back in the house
and I wake up

the 1st lucid dream i remember was when something was scaring me.. i think it was a dog.. and then i was like it isn't real.. so i jumped off the stairs and fell through the floor.. i always seem to fall through the floor and then go through a bunch of places falling until i hit my bed then automatically wake up. that's a reocurring lucid where i get scared then force myself to wake up. i've done that since i was young. but my first REAL lucid where i understood what an LD was.. 3 days ago.

i was driving my car and realized.. that hey this isn't my car.. and i got scared cuz ithought someone switched my car with someone else's so someone stole my car! and then i was like.. this is not real.. it's a dream! so i waslike.. omg.. (usually i'd wake up right now because once i go lucid i wake up but not this time) then while i was driving i decided to go the opposite direction of traffic.. and i made an illegal uturn.. then i wasn't in the car anymore and i decided to find my friend.. and then i walked through a wall and walked out on the other side and was in a neighborhood.. it turned out to be this one girl's bday party and i went in her house even though i didnt want to cuz i was trying to find my friend.. and i just went in and out of the house.. and then i was in the street of the neighborhood and i was like hey i wanna fly so i tried and i kept falling on my butt.. so i was like nm.. and ran.. and i was running so slow.. and then i jumped a wall and then jumped over to the other side and found someone.. and it wasn't who i was looking for then it turned into him.. and then.. yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh hahaha.. k that's it yay!

My first lucid dream occured when I was around 9 years old.
I was on holiday and my parent had bought me a bow and arrow (the kind with suction caps on the end... my parents were responsible ;) )
That night I had a dream that I was walking on top of a mountain with my dad, I had my new bow and arrow with me and I began firing them over the edge of the cliff. I then thought 'oh no! what have I done I can't get them back!!" I then realised that it was ok because i was dreaming. I told my dad and he laughed at me, so I said I'll show you. I then jumped over the edge and began flying around. Thank god I was correct :D

(This was copied from my message in Newbie zone, sorry if what)

Here it is (almost):
First I started at some green plains, bright green. There was river and some flat wooden thing over it as bridge. I walked over bridge. There was some strange pipes on grassy area, with some things showing numbers and "mass" symbol over them. At this point I got 100% aware of it as a dream. I walked more into my city. Oh, colors became darker, more dirty at this point. I walked into city. To the left there was some old houses, I cant describe them properly in english, maybe "Ukrainian old village houses". To the right was some 19th century style city (most of buildings was) and a big church. Oh, I heard distant dogs barking (many of them i mean), plus some city sound, like low-frequency noise. No car horns though. Please notice that after pipes there was no weirdness, all was normal. Ok, i walked further. There was some building, square, school-like, about 4-5 floors high. Doors were locked, so i found some hole in the wall. It was small, but i passed it as if it was big. There was some space inside the building, i mean it was square shaped with a square hole in it if you look from top. I explored this place a bit, then found some door. It leaded to hallway, i walked to the end of it, found some stairs and got up. These was emergency stairs, but all doors to other floors were locked. I got to the top, there was some window, painted green, but old, paint got off somewhere. Then I heard some steps, i got scared and ran down the stairs, out of the school through the hole I mentoined earlier. When out I saw some small boys, they were dark, like some ghosts. I didn't scare of them, they dissapeared soon. I was heading out of the city, but something in church attracted me. I went there, it was like hallway in reversed "Г" shape, in the end there was entrance to a hall, and somewhere down. Then I saw some creatures, i dont want to describe them, i got scared, ran out of the church, then wished "Let this dream end" and it ended. Well, not really. I got a view of some pc screen, some program editor. There I saw code which was like "player creation". I feeled, or so, that it was "dream program", I tried to change it a bit, but then felt that it is about to run (it is pretty weird, I know), I tried to revert changes, but it "runned", some blue fuzzy flash, than red fuzzy flash, than a "old tv goes off" effect, and I woke up.

This dream was very colorful, it had best colors you can imagine for a dream, with all brigtness levels. It was very real, the most realistic I could remember. It is very impressive, I want to draw it some day. The pipes, the city... It was wow.

Weird, beautiful, scary, and realistic.

I am not very good at telling my dreams, so sorry if what.
Oh, and i gave city name, "The City of Autumn"

Hello
My first Lucid Dream happened when i was about 8.
I was wandering around my school and suddenly all of these zombies started showing up and beating up and killing people. I was scared so i ran around for a while but then they appeared in front of me. I said , "Right this is my dream so you can just all fuck off!".
Then the rotting corpses just sorta floated into the sky and faded away.
When i turned around there was a big crowd and one of my associates ,Stephen , was ascending a podium and being given a medal. :|
i said "Y is Stephen being given the honours?"
Stephen (who was in the crowd too) said "I don't know."
then one of the teachers said something stupid like he stopped them all singlehandedly or something. I was disgusted by this and woke up annoyed. I liked stephen less from that day on.

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Originally posted by Lucid83
POST ONLY YOUR FIRST LUCID DREAM!!!

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My first lucid dream occurred 2 yrs ago. Back then I didn't know what lucid dreams were, and figured it was just a very vivid dream. Anyway, in this dream I was having "sexual relations" with some very looking guy, but at one point I figured it was wrong, so I told him to stop. For some reason when I told him that, I mentioned his name, which was Johnathan, and I later became confused as to how I knew his name. So, once I told him to stop, he did, and was looking at me with confusion. I then asked him "What's my name?" he just stood there staring at me silently, so I asked him again, and he replyed with a surprised tone. He said my name, and then asked me "why?" At that point I told him "because you don't exist," and I woke up. Of course, I later regretted that I told him off. So what if he doesn't exist - he was pretty good lookin :P

I used to have my first lucid dreams when I was a kid but of course knew nothing about them. I was acutely aware that I was stuck in the dream (why can't I be stuck now!) and used to hide behind things, and hopefully when I popped up I would be awake, lind of like
"peekaboo", but that rarely worked. You know when your a kid and you make up monsters (e.g. under your bed) in your head even if you don't want to? It was like that in these dreams, but of course when I thought them up, they actually turned real. I (still) have an acute fear of deformity so it was very scary indeed.

After thinking it over many times...

It was a false awakening for sure, as it took place in my room. I recreated near exactly how it looked just for the sake of it:

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/8423/ld6fm.jpg

As I said in my intro post, I've experimented with dreams to some extent since I was 10, but never attempted lucidity, and didn't practice this by habit.

In my dream, I felt myself being sucked towards the doorway out of my face, with a strange breathing sound(probably my own), my vision was tilted as if thats how my head was positioned, the door was gone and thats when I realised this was a dream. I became anxious and began to wake up, as my vision came into focus I was looking at my ceiling. It was the wierdest feeling I ever had, and since then have been learning about lucid dreams.

It felt like the waking world, it was the most real dream I ever had....

PS, I was on the floor on an air matress due to changing beds

When I saw something strange, convincing me that it was a dream. I immediately started searching for girls to have sex with, as I always do when I'm aware of that I'm dreaming, which, fortunately for me, is pretty often.

i was 8 when it happend.

i was outside playing in the snow when i noticed a pack of wolves around 300 yeards away from me. I got up to run but slipped and and fell down, the wolves started to run towards me, and right before they were on top of me i realized it was just a dream but didnt wake up, i was still dreaming but aware of it.

Ive been and avid lucid dreamer since.

My first lucid was amazing, though it was very short. I was running through a stony passageway in a castle that was no more than 3' wide when i suddenly realized i was dreaming. soon after that i jumped off a ledge into a circular stone building and tried to fly instead i swan dived into the ground.... I loved it

I was about 6 years old. I had been having a recurring dream where an unknown force would start to pick me up off the ground. It frightened me. Sometimes I could get somebody to grab my ankles and hold me down, other times I would be lifted and always close my eyes as I felt myself ascending and wind rushing by. Aften a dozen or so occurances of this dream, it finally occured to me that this had happened a good number of times before, and each time it had turned out to be a dream. I finally made the connection during one instance of this recurring dream that it had happened numerous times before, and it had always turned out to be a dream, so this too must be a dream I'm having. The realization awoke me.

my first lucid dream when a few years back.It started out not lucid,some people were chasing me and i had no where to go.THen i saw this cliff and i jumped off it.Thats when it became lucid see i usually would of woken up after i jump off a cliff cause i get butterflies in my stomach and it causes me to wake.But this time i didnt wake up,i fell off the cliff into a pool of water,there were tropical fish everywhere :o !So i got outta the water and i looked around trying to find something to do.All i saw was a dark cave and sand going on for miles.Then all of a sudden some cave man(ape thing) came out of the cave,it looked nice so i went over to it.It started walking away so i went with it we were walking in the cave for quite some time when we got back to the people that were chasing me.I got all freaked out and started running away but i ran really really slowly(sometimes in my dreams when i try to run i cant i only run like as fast as someone walking) i got so scared then and i woke up.
I had this dream about 2 years :) ago and i still remember it.

My first lucid dream:
I was standing in this room, but it wasn't really a room, I just knew it was, you didn't see anything though, it just ''was'', and there was a wooden door.

A friend from school also was in that room and he asked "Hey Danny, are you dreaming?" (Danny is what people call me in real-life, not my real name though, but could be considered that).
I realized, yeah i am dreaming (so the lucid part started 10 seconds after I was dreaming).
Erm. I opened a door, and it went to this sunny grassy hill part, and I thought... Hey I want to implement that girl I like in my dream.
I tried to force her in, and I woke up.

Yep... it sucked bad...

I think it took me like.... 30 seconds.. to dream 8 hours in real-life.

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Originally posted by Lucid83
POST ONLY YOUR FIRST LUCID DREAM!!!

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Okay. My first LD lasted for 20 secs. I was doing an oral exam in front of my class. And i suddenly became speechless, and grew more and more nervous. I would mumble words, etc. THAT'S WHEN SOMETHING CLICKED, My stress was so high that i simply thought it was enough! and realised that i was just dreaming.
From that point on, i tried to look closely at the students who were sitting in front on me, i then decided to stand up on the table and started jumping on tables (rather excitedly). I remember very well the student's facial expression: They were in complete awe.
Finally, i decided to start flying (although i was still in the classroom), but instead of feeling like i'm flying, i felt like i was loosing lucidity. So i tried to spin, only to see many visual, colored spinning patterns. That's when i woke up.