Finally Success! Plus a questoin for you all!

[Midnight01]

So I will start with this, holy crap this was great! I will tell you my success story of my best lucid dream yet (I will say this is my first, as my other two lucid dream was a quick realization followed by it ending completely once I blinked, which was 5 seconds into the dream). Also, for people who don’t want to read my long dream here, just scroll down and read my question, and a small confidence boost to those of you still trying for your first lucid dream. Warning: I will be detailed, therefore it will be a long read. I pose a question for you all, so if you want you can skip to that at the end of this post, but then again we are all here for similar reasons. Or you can skip to the lucid dream, which is labeled a Dream 2. Split into 2 dreams: Dream 1 = My brother and I are driving in his car, and a head light is out (which is happening in real life in my car) and a cop pulls us over. The cop is an African American who looks like my friends dad. My brother, once the cop asks if he knows our head light is out, for some idiotic reason drives away. A cop chase ensues, and I try recording the cop chasing us (I am sitting in the back seat). I don’t want the cop to see me trying to record it, and somehow I heard the cop say he is going to ram us. The cop takes a shortcut and tries to cut us off, but my brother dodges him, turns onto the road the cop came from, and somehow we are on a road that is a cliff edge of a mountain with a huge river a few hundred feet down the cliff. My brother drives off the cliff, and realizing my brother wants to kill us, I say “I don’t want to die! Sorry man” and I somehow escape the car and just grab the cliff edge as my bro curses me out as he falls to his death (morbid I know). Using my anger and sorrow the river bubbles up and gets violent as I mourn his death from the road. I walk over to the side and see my ex girlfriend (who I am still close with) with a few people and a teacher. I thank the teacher for letting me have met my ex, as my relationship with her opened up many doors in my life even though we broke up (we met online in real life, and after 8 years of talking every day, we finally met in person). At that point, I knew it was a dream, so that is why I was thanking this woman, as she was the head of the forum I met the girl on. Although I was aware it was a dream , I did not have that “ah-hah” moment where I could do whatever I want. Dream 2 = I find myself in a giant hotel with a fair/carnival in it. Immediately this dream starts out with me walking around and as vivid as my waking reality, and with me being lucid, walking where I want, doing as I please. I won’t lie, I had sex with two girls at this fair haha. Which is interesting, as my main reasons for lucid dreaming are spirit guide related and having super-powers, as well as going to a dreamscape I have created. Anyways, I am walking around, and my friend Glen from real life is in there, bothering me just like he does in real life (but is like a brother to me). I tell him not to annoying me as I do not want to wake up, and he says “fine, this is a dream anyway”. I stop him and realize he knows this is a dream too, so I say “Hey Glen…this is a dream, you know you can do whatever you want right?” And he agrees and leaves. I also saw my friend Mike and had him join me on an adventure to find food. At that point in the dream I wondered if I was affecting them in real life by telling them in my dream that this IS a dream (which now I know I obviously wasn’t affecting them). At one point glen bumped into me and I smacked my hand, causing my entire view to go like TV snow/static. I rubbed my hands together and the dream came back. Also at one point my dream view started to fade to white from top to bottom, but I did the hand rub trick again and got it back instantly. I tried spinning to change the dreamscape but nothing happened, I also tried covering my eyes but still nothing (which is good though, as when I blinked in previous dreams I just woke up). After I stuffed my face with food with Mike, I woke up, but it was gradual. I woke up but was staring at the back of my eyelids. I tried to do a lucid-dream chain but my throat was too try and I had to pee lol. Interesting Notes: I had tried Lucid dreaming for 4 months, had some success as I mentioned in the start of this post. Stopped for 4 months, now just started. I technically did a WBTB because I got 5 hours and 15 minutes of sleep and was going to go buy my mother a gift, but went back to bed after ten minutes. Then I had these dreams. I had tried Calea Zacatechichi a few days ago a few times, but not much success except for maybe a slightly longer dream. Although this was my most controlled/first really good lucid dream, it seems I automatically knew to use the hand-rub trick due to reading about it so much. However, I say I had 80% control as I couldn’t do certain things such as super powers (at least not the way I wanted, since I did make the river get violent) or change the dreamscape. In the past week or two I have done some reality checks per day, but not extensively. I was not planning on lucid dreaming last night or this morning. I went from remembering 1-2 dreams a week, to 7-10 dreams a night. i reached that level within a week (as i did last time about 8 months ago, but back than it took more like 2 weeks). To others: Keep pursuing your goals. I am one of those people that gets a little down at times and feel I won’t make success like others. Well I used to, not anymore due to some crazy life events for the better  Keep trying everyone, you will get it eventually. I did this WBTB without even thinking of lucid dreaming, it was by accident. But it let me know I can do this, and so can all of you. Question: Do any of you feel that after a lucid dream, you ask “Was I really controlling it all…or was that just the dream itself?” Because I know I was doing what I wanted, walking where I wanted, even going “wow…this is so realistic it is like being awake.” But at the same time, sex was not on my priority list for dreaming. And I didn’t have full control, which I know you can still be lucid and not have control. Sorry for such a long post!

[EGW95]

Wow, that was a long LD you had! As for your question, I can't really answer it. I have yet to stabilize myself in the dream, the most control I've had is probably 30 seconds worth. Next time I just need to remember to stay calm and rub my hands/spin around. p.s I'm not going to lie either, I wouldn't mind having sex in a LD Lol. My main goal though is to speak with my subconscious.

[Midnight01]

Wow, that was a long LD you had! As for your question, I can't really answer it. I have yet to stabilize myself in the dream, the most control I've had is probably 30 seconds worth. Next time I just need to remember to stay calm and rub my hands/spin around. p.s I'm not going to lie either, I wouldn't mind having sex in a LD Lol. My main goal though is to speak with my subconscious. Yeah my control was out the window. It was *realize I am dreaming" "Great. I'm calm, i guess I will walk over here" *dream ends* lol. Or because I blinked, which would be in those first 10 seconds or so. But after that I tried it again in another lucid dream that was a few minutes long and prior to that dream in real life for a few days I told me self that when i close my eyes in a dream, I wont wake up. It worked, I closed my eyes to change the dream scape and I didnt wake up...but also the dreamscape didn't change. But hey, it is as i say, progress is progress. My focuses in LD is to talk to my spirit guides and go to a dream scape that is from a meditation I created (PM me if you want it, It is a unique meditation in which you create you're own world).