Thread: The first attempt and first achieved LD

Additionally for changing the dream environment. My advice is not to try to change it as you have little experience with lucid dreams. As you further experience more and more lucid dreams you will subconsciously know what you can change and what you cannot.

At the beginning any changes in the dream should be small, don’t aim for big changes because the dream environment will collapse. If you push yourself too much the result can be unpredictable.

I advise to learn to fly first, this is already a big change for the dream environment. You directly interfere with the dream physics and reprogramming them in real-time. Your mind is sending a message to the subconscious and tells it to exclude the law of gravity only from you leaving the rest of the dream intact. Just imagine how the world look like and what you feel while flying.

My first attempt was a total failure, as I managed to fly up to 5 meters, lost control and crashed on the ground with my head, waking myself.

My second attempt was more promising as I managed a slow speed sustained flight about 4 meters from the ground only to realize that I have no control of the flight after a couple of seconds. My body kept flying at this height uncontrollably until more and more overhang power cables start appearing in front of me. Then I struggled to regain the flight control and smoothly landed on the ground with great difficulty.

The third time I was in control of the flight but the dream environment scattered heavily as I tried to keep the flight under control. Large pieces of the environment, like broken glass start breaking, rotating, shaking and fading especially in my peripheral vision. As soon as I landed the dream environment restored to normal. This happened because I gave all my attention to the flight control and neglected the visuals, so the dream was in the threshold of fading.

The fourth time I wanted to fly fast. At first nothing worked, whatever I tried my speed was too low. Then I tried to imagine how would I feel and how the dream world will look like if I was flying a jet fighter. Then my mind recalled some breathtaking videos from jet fighters flying close to the ground (search youtube). I instantly imagined the same and my subconscious responded immediately making me fly at extremely high speed. I made the whole procedure to look and feel natural, I wasn’t struggling anymore, I just imagine what I wanted and the dream responded.