First Lucid Dream - Took 9 Days!

I had this lucid dream while doing a WILD variation I read about a few days ago. The technique works like this. As soon as you wake up from a dream, and realize you are awake, keep your eyes closed and start imagining spinning on your own axis lengthwise. Do this a couple times, and then imagine having an OBE, rolling yourself out of your body. As you start to roll out you will feel yourself fade away into a dream, so it is important to imagine waking up in your bedroom already in a lucid state. I am going to call this technique a RILD - Rolling Induced Lucid Dream.

Here is my dream!

Green = Lucid Dreaming
Blue = Normal Dreaming

The Aqua Simpsons - September 26 2005

I start the RILD technique. As soon as I start the rolling part, I feel myself falling into a dream. I visualize waking up in my bedroom and becoming lucid. Everything goes black for a few moments. Then my bedroom comes into view, and at that moment I tell myself, “I am in a dream”. I am so excited! This is my first actual lucid dream. For years I’ve wanted to experience the feeling, and it has only taken me 9 days to do so! I remember that I should stabilize the dream, so I yell, “Increase lucidity!” There is a pulse wave that goes out through the room, and everything brightens. I look around and see two other bunk beds, and a picture on the wall. The room reminds me of one you would find in the Simpson’s house (cartoon show). Everything is extremely blue; it feels like the room is under water. I try to get out of bed, but can’t. No matter how hard I try I am stuck to the bed. I concentrate and tell myself, “You are dreaming, get out of bed”. The dream starts to fade. I look down to my hands but everything is blurry. I try and rub them, but it doesn’t work. I then lose the dream and have a false awakening.

I awake in my bedroom, and get up quickly to tell all my roommates that I’ve had a lucid dream. One mate tells me he had one as well, and the other says he didn’t dream at all. Then I wake up...

Going to try this same tech tonight and see how it goes. Will keep you updated.

Cool! Congrats! Please keep up posted.

Damn, wish this would have been posted yesterday - I just had a WILD this morning and I could have tried this!!

This morning's near miss:
I woke up in sleep paralysis (which doesn't happen very often). Like an idiot I didn't realize what was going on and tried to move my head. Just as I "boke" the paralisys I thought "Doh! what am I doing?? I can WILD!!!". However, all was not lost - I relaxed again and started hearing hypnogogic sounds - really convincing ones. But, the more I convinced myself it was all my imagination, the more "awake" I became and soon lost the whole thing :?

At what point in my experience should I have tried your technique? After or before breaking the paralisys?

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Originally posted by Tornado Joe
At what point in my experience should I have tried your technique? After or before breaking the paralisys?

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I'm not quite sure, but I would say before you break. The key to this technique is making sure you don't wake yourself up, you know what I mean? You seriously have to start the imaginary rolling as soon as you realize you are not in a dream state.

When I did it, I woke from a dream. Within 3-5 seconds I remembered, "this is a good time to try that RILD I read about". I didn't actually think that all out, it just came through instinct. So what I did was imagine myself turning round and round in my bed, 3 times. When you do it, don't turn your head. I was turning my eyes, very softly. Then I imagine rolling out of the body, and I titled my head to left just a tad. As soon as I titled my head, I heard voices around me, music, and yelling in the distance. I felt myself fall through my bed and into blackness, and during this stage when I knew my brain was forming the dream, I concentrated on waking up in my bedroom in a lucid state. This is important. Everything was black, and then within 5 seconds I opened my eyes and was in a dream, completely lucid. Didn't have to do any reality checks. When I opened my eyes I said, "I am in a dream!".

Here is a link to the original topic:

http://ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9476&start=60

Let me know how this tech works out for you TJ!

Well Done!