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When you have your first lucid dream it's truly amazing and awesome and I will remember my first till the day I die.
I was in my school hallway when and realized I was dreaming, I was so excited, I looked at my hands, and saw to kids in front of me, I blew them up with fireballs and sprinted out the door and jumped and started flying, but I fell and woke up.
If you can't remember your first LD, then just think of one that was very memorable or vivid.
I was sitting in what seemed to me a panic room (must've been from a movie or something) and for some reason seeing an old buddy of mine from when I was younger triggered some awareness and I started questioning things. I opened the door, and was in an alley way, yet a wall on one of the walls was glitching out as if it were a video game. I looked at my hand and I noticed there were six fingers, and I instantly realized I was dreaming then. As it was my first I didn't want to do anything crazy and lose control, so I just kept walking through this town, soaking in everything. It was so incredibly sharp, the image that I had. I wasn't fully aware, but all I remember is everything being so crystal clear and just beautiful, it is truly something I'll remember for a while. I also remembered that I was going to be taking exams that morning (a stress induced lucid dream!) and so I tried studying while dreaming... which woke me up pretty quickly :P
That lucid dream must have been not long ago huh?
studying for a test in a lucid dream sounds like a good idea.
I had my first lucid dream a couple of years ago while practicing Astral Projection. Back then I didn’t know what Lucid Dream was and I didn’t believe that it can be possible to be in a dream and know you are dreaming.
I was on a stone road and on both sides there were various kind of shops. I was dreaming normally and suddenly it just happened, I became lucid inside the dream. I looked on my right, on my left, at my hands and said: I am in a dream and I am aware of this, how did this happened. Then I was thrilled from joy, and I tried to stay calm. I knew that overwhelming feelings can make me to wake up. Also I knew that I could do whatever I want and started messing with the dream environment and especially the dream people. I rammed into each shop, interrogating the shopkeepers. What is your name?, your job?, do you know that you are in my dream?, do you have any advice for me?, can you predict the lotto numbers? They actually responded to my first two questions (they seemed a bit shocked at first) but after a while they just kept staring at me speechless and unemotional. I kept asking then and repeating the same question again and again, some of them did responded with inconceivable answers others stopped responding. I kept messing with the dream people, breaking things, nudge them and I grabbed the girlfriend from one of them and took her with me. Initially all of them responded normally but after that they just kept looking at me doing nothing. Finally the dream ended and I searched the web for that phenomenon, then I learned what lucid dream was.
My first lucid dream was just a week ago, and honestly, it wasn't all that great other than being lucid, of course. I was in a light grey hallway, with one of my friends in front of me and the other standing in a dark grey room to my right. The friend in front of me told me to follow her, and suddenly it hit me that I was dreaming. I tried to stay calm, but immediately woke up after everything got blurry and unclear. I did have another, longer lucid dream after that, though, which was pretty fun.
I had my first lucid dream when I was at elementary school. I dreamt that I was at school and some kids were upset because of a creature that sat in the corner of a classroom. It looked like a big spider with a pair of lobster claws. They told me not to touch it because it would cut my fingers, but I wasn't scared. I went to the corner and picked up the creature to carry it outside - and then it attacked me and DID cut my fingers. When I looked at my hands, I saw that it had cut all my fingers in half, in a way that it now looked like I had twenty fingers. That was the moment I realized that I was dreaming, and I said aloud: "You can't scare me, I know this is just a dream. And I can wake up anytime I want."
I woke up in my bed, and just to be sure, I looked at my hands again. When I saw that my fingers were still cut in half, I panicked and then I woke up for real.
It's probably due to that frightening false awakening that I still remember this one :-)
The thing I'll remember the best about my first lucid dream is how "easy" control seemed compared to my next 9-10 lucid dreams....Ah, the troubles of overthinking it :P
Oh boy, it seems I just had a coffee, recalling your first LD gives you a great feeling ^^
I have the DJ Entry right here. This was the first ever lucid dream I had that I remembered.
I can remember being in this sort of mine or cave. There were lots of cells in the wall. Each one had an archway of a huge iron door. There was a group of people in each catacomb. All of the people were dressed in rags and looked hungry and weak.
Darth Vader was there (As hilarious as it sounds) and he was the main bad guy. I can remember him saying something about the people could either eat poisonous food or die of hunger. I knew that I could not overpower him, so I tried to hide behind some rocks.
I was worried that he would be able to sense me with the force, and sure enough at that moment, he turned around and cut my head off with his lightsaber.
My disembodied head rolled off an underground cliff and down a large circular shaft. I can remember it falling past a conveyor belt that was assembling people by attaching muscles, organs and bones. This type of thing was a common theme with nightmares when I was a kid. (There was this character I would sometimes dream of that I called the peoplebuilder. He would put people together with parts grown in a lab and bring them to life. He himself wasn't evil but the concept scared me.)
When I got to the bottom, I fell into green liquid. I assumed it was acid, and it was dissolving my head that was still alive. At this point a I just thought for some reason.
"This has GOT to be a dream!" (Haha, I always used to say this when I got lucid as a kid, with comedic emphasis on the word 'got')
I flew up out of the shaft, smashing the nightmare assembly line. I was in my full body again. Darth vader turned around, but before he could draw his lightsaber, I blasted him with a massively powerful white laser beam from my hand. (Something I have not replicated in any dream to this day.)
He flew out of the cave, and onto a platform surrounded by water. In fact, the cave existed only in a small mountain with ocean all around it. He got up. I was flying above him, ready to strike again. But my vision was taken out of my body, and I watched myself blast him again and again.
Eventually the whole lucid dream sort of zoomed turned out to be a movie that was playing on the television in my basement. and I lost lucidity. Some unrecognizable adult family member was sitting in the chair next to me with a can of beer in one hand. I can remember my mom came downstairs.
"This movie is too scary for you! Why don't you watch something else?"
Then I woke up.
Feel a little ashamed of myself for just copy-pasting it, even though I remember it clearly. I have a bunch of stuff written down. My first lucid dream, my dream signs, etc. I guess I added the bits in parenthesizes for a little more context, though...
My first lucid dream was funny. I realized I was dreaming and I turned into godzilla and I Summoned Mecha godzilla and we started fighting. I won. I killed everyone and ate all the fish.
My first LD was back in spring 2011 during 7th grade. I was in my old middle school when one of my friends randomly told me to fly back home and get him a pair of swim trunks. As I was flying away from the school, I had this thought of "wait am I dreaming?" Then I touched down on a small field right outside the school grounds near an intersection. I looked at my hands and noticed I had 6 fingers and I went lucid. I remember I was REALLY excited because it took me a while to get an LD. Shortly after, I cupped my hands preparing to do a Kamehameha and blasted it. Not a lot came out of my hands, but I did manage to shoot out a small light blue beam, so I was satisfied. And the vividness was extreme. The place I was at looked exactly the way it does IWL and I remember feeling the sun and warmth on my body. When I woke up I was so excited that my hand was shaking as I was writing it down. :D
My first LD was probably a couple of months ago. I did a FILD. After I was done moving my fingers, I did the nose pinch RC and I could breathe, but I don't think I was really in control of the dream, because everything was unexpected and I couldn't really control anything after I floated out of my bedroom, and outside. There was snow piled taller than my house, but the only cleared place was the sidewalk. It sorta looked like the picture here, but much taller:Attachment 8663
Anyway, my friend from 4th grade helped me find a good outfit to wear in the snow while we were sitting on the snow (or clouds?) Anyway, when I woke up, I didn't have a dream journal... Thank god I've remembered all the details ever since.
Did anyone else start lucid dreaming as a kid, to avoid nightmares? I just started recognizing the "feeling" of being in a dream. Once I was talking to a cartoon alligator that had something to do with my 3rd grade teacher, and it said it would catch me and eat me if I went into its moat. I said that was OK, because I would just wake up.
There were dreams about screaming faces pushing outwards from the walls, grisly human bones under the kitchen table, nightmarish carnivals being attacked by a giant version of my favourite plush toy, and one instance of a monster using the decapitated helmets of the Power Rangers as a drumset. I needed some sort of self-defense, badly.
I had awoken for real, got up and took a shower returned to my bedroom and was sitting on the edge of my bed, I held up my hand and opened it saying "this" (closed my hand and opened it) "never" (closed my hand and opened it again) "works" then it came back to me. IT WORKED LAST TIME!!! suddenly I remembered my 3 minute first intentional lucid dream (I had some others decades ago when young). I was outside my house walking out the front sidewalk in the center of our entirely rocked yard. There were no cars on the street but at least 50 people walking along, and it was broad daylight (I think it must have been several minutes into a false awakening) I thought this can't be real. So I brought up my hand. 1,2,3,4,5 What this is real? No way? closed hand then opened again 1,2,3,4 and a transparent pinky makes 5. WHAT? Staring at the pinky it becomes very solid. All the people in the street are standing still now (they had all been walking towards the main street in the same direction and at the same pace). As I stared at my hand I noticed that my fingers didn't seem as stubby as usual, so two of them decided to get in character and started to shrink, then they began to twist and distort a bit bending and rotating and continuing to shrink as I stared constantly at my pinky. [I want to point out that my RC served 3 purposes for this dream 1) detection 2) focus & stabilization 3) recall (because I had actually forgotten the whole thing)] I didn't even know how important stabilization was, but since my next 2 lucid dreams one and two months latter lasted a grand total of 1 minutes, it is the most important thing. Because of the staring in this first lucid dream it lasted a total of about 3 minutes. It also gave me total lucidity and good sense of control. (in every long lucid dream I have there is always something against me)
I decided to command the dream people. I called out to one of them 'come here' immediately they began moving towards me, then one of the other DC said "no don't go" and they stopped. I was incensed I raised my hand and called to them "COME HERE" they began moving again, and again the same DC said "NO DON'T GO OVER THERE". I couldn't believe it I was being DREAM HECKLED. I decided to turn my view so that I couldn't see the DC heckler and called to another dream person "come here" they immediately began walking towards me. Then the dreamscape it self which was ultra realistic and vivid, turned against me. I looked down and suddenly noticed the grass was 2 feet tall (there is no grass in the yard) and that it was coming up at about 1 inch per second, I knew it was going to block the dream person, and also engulf me in a matter of seconds. So I pulled up my other hand and tried to command it to stop, then I decided I was doomed and had better do something, I attempted to do 3 things at once, command the person, control the grass and perform a dream task, my attention was divided the dream world dissolved. (total lucid time 3min about 1 year ago)
Actually, when I was younger, I tried to stop dreaming as a whole to avoid nightmares. I went to sleep much later, trying to distract myself from possible and past nightmares by reading, staying on the Internet, etc... Since I went to sleep much later, I rarely ever had dreams, so when I did have to go to sleep early for reasons I would try to force myself to stay awake a bit longer just to avoid dreams. I've only recently gotten over that, too, since I started lucid dreaming a few weeks ago. I hadn't even heard of lucid dreaming back then =PQuote:
Originally Posted by Samael
Tried WILD when I first went to sleep (yes, I know we're not meant to do that. Haven't been able to replicate it yet). Found myself in my bedroom at night. Went to the window and tried to cause the sun rise. Failed, so I tried to walk through a wall. Succeeded and appeared in my mom's room. She gave me a horrifying smile. The kind that makes insane cheshire cats seem pleasent. Woke up.
Rather unfulfilling, to be honest. Later attempts were far better.
I was in a school hallway as well, and about to get into a bathroom and put on some clothes (I only had a towel at the moment). But right then one of my teachers walked by and stood to block the door, and I seemed to remember something about dreams and door teoubles, so I looked at my hands, they were normal but it was more something I did automatically than actually reality checking. "I'M DREAMING!" I thought and waved my arms to rise to the ceiling, where I kinda swam through the air. Everything was blurry though and it made me a little uneasy so eventually I woke myself up.
I even didn't know it was called lucid dreaming until years later. I just thought it was something everyone could do.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyGalaxy
My first lucid dream was in 2007. I'd read about RCs a few days before and was doing them religiously throughout the day.
It started as a false awakening, but I remembered to do a hand check RC upon "waking" and became lucid. :)
I couldn't believe how realistic the dream felt, everything about my bedroom was replicated perfectly. I suddenly realised just how amazing lucid dreaming was going to be - I was really there, not just witnessing and watching something like a movie, or "controlling a character".
I slowly walked around the room, inspecting everything up close and admiring the detail and realism. I noticed that the carpet was more soft and fluffy than in waking life, so I knelt down and ran my fingers through it. I spent the whole dream just calmly exploring the room and engaging my senses, I was really in awe. I also looked in a mirror and considered teleporting using either that or the bedroom door, but I woke up before I got the chance.
I also had a few semi-lucid dreams in my early childhood. I would wake up in the middle of the night and see my wardrobe glowing neon colours, and I knew this meant that I could get out of bed and explore a magical world. I didn't ever acknowledge that it was a dream though, I just knew it wasn't real and that I had super powers. :) That only happened a few times, all before the age of 5, and then nothing until the dream above.
It was really short and boring. I was turning the blank pages of a book and when I realized I was dreaming I tried to find the last page but it wouldn't end
I was going on a tour of an art museum, and the tour guide announced "this is a dream." I decided to just continue going along with the tour, because the building looked interesting and I wanted to see more of it. The walls, floor, and ceiling of the museum were completely white, and it had a lot of staircases. Most of the art on the walls was abstract.
Very short, it was only like 10 seconds. I was at this beach, I realised I was dreaming and couple seconds later I woke up :P
Yeah I always got the hell out of my nightmares by just wishing myself awake...except when I only dreamt I had woken up.
I had fairly normal dream then I needed to go take a pee. Went up some stairs then Wham everything felt so intense, like the lights had been switched on and the dream character was really in my face. I couldn't move but just was in a state of shock to start with. Then the character asked me to do something for them later which I didn't really want to, I mean it was my lucid dream I wanted to fly idk do something not help this dream character out. But I thought why not as I agreed I felt a massive warmth and love radiating from me as a bright light and seriously intense feeling which continued for a time. I then went into another normal dream.
I awoke feeling quite overwhelmed with emotion and with the physical sensation of tingling and warmth over my chest area. This lasted strongly for about half an hour while I pondered over what had happened.
I want more...
I've had a few as a teenager, but it was always sort of a "Whoa, okay that was weird." experience that I'd forget about. Usually because it was boring and involved me just standing there.
But then a few years ago I was working on dream recall just because. I was kind of in a shitty point in life and I started getting into spiritual stuff, so I was wanted to get into interpreting my dreams to find out what the powers-that-be wanted me to know.
One night, about two weeks into dream journaling, I had this dream where I met Michael (the archangel) as I was running from a nightmare creature. He lifted me up and I just kinda flew alongside him, and we passed by this huge tree. It was barren and had so many branches, and the sun was behind it shining through. I remember looking at all the different shafts of light coming through the branches as we flew by, and I thought "This is really vivid for a dream." And that's when it hit me - I WAS TOTALLY DREAMING. And I was conscious, and flying along with a friggin angel. It was this crazy spiritual experience and I was like "I have GOT to get more of this."
So I started looking it up and found the luciddreaming subreddit, and then found this site. I'm not SUPER spiritual anymore, though I still have my moments, but I swear that was one of the cooler moments of my life.
I was walking through a factory of some sort and went out an exit that was a dead end. When I came back inside, i noticed that the pipe layout had changed, and I suddenly became lucid. I went back out the exit, climbed the 8-ish foot brick wall. I jumped down and floated the last foot or so. I started to walk and said that I must stay in control emotionally. Suddenly, without volition, I jumped in the air and cheered my lucidity. Woke up in bed. Sad for the duration but happy I'd been lucid.
Wow, these dreams are amazing :)
My first one was when I was probably in elementary school. Interestingly enough, I didn't quite know that I controlled the dream when I did it. I was at a bar (yeah, I know... under 21...), but at the stools sat SpongeBob and Patrick! I completely flipped out and talked to them for a little while, then I thought of some other cartoon characters and they appeared on nearby stools as well, but then the dream collapsed and I woke up.
I haven't got my first LD on the sites DJ unfortunately, so I will give the rundown. This was about 3 days after I first started trying to get lucid.
I was at school waiting around outside, possibly for a sports day, and I ended up walking into a building. As soon as I walked through the door, however, the room turned into a blank white space that stretched infinitely in all directions. I thought to myself I must be dreaming, so I did the hand reality check and lo and behold my finger slid right through my hand. I got super excited, and threw a fireball out of my right hand, followed by a lightning bolt out of my left, skyrim style haha. I marveled at how real the dream felt, like many others above have, but I got destabilized, felt like an earthquake, and then I woke up... or so I thought! I thought I had woken up and written the dream down in my DJ, told my brother about it and then gone on DV, but it was all a false awakening! I wouldn't have realized either, if I hadn't asked my brother what he thought of my dream and him responding like "...wut". Ahhh good times :)
Here's what I scribbled down from memory.
The 12th birthday Incident
1/28/04
I remember this dream very well even though it was over ten years ago now. It had a huge impact on me. As any kid I was excited so when I woke up early and didn't get my present immediately I went back to sleep. It might have been birthday excitement that kept my brain awake but I went straight into a dreamstate. I knew I was in a dream now so guess what? I tried to turn into a girl because I deal with Gender Dysphoria, But that failed and I was generally confused during the entire incident. I wanted to wake myself up but I couldn't, I believe I cowered in the dream version of my room because I knew this was a dream and I might see some scary things. Two strange things happened like stepping out of my room looking back and my brothers blanket talking to me. Also there was a bike in my room and one of the wheels turned into the tazmainian devil. I remember at the end I started to look for the millenium eye from yugioh so I could wake up? I woke up sometime before that though.
I remembered it well for all these years because it felt like I had passed into another dimension. The twilight zone if you will. As I look back on it I see it as one of the most magical things that Iv'e ever experienced.
I was being chased by a T-rex so I ran inside a small house to hide. To my utter surprise, the T-rex turns itself into a bee, flies inside the house and then transforms back into a T-rex again.
"Well, that's some serious fucking bullshit," I say. "This is obviously a dream."
Then I wake up.
Of all my lucid dreams, I remember my first one the best, mainly because after tons of practice over 6 months, it felt like I finally earned it.
I'm in my bedroom at home, but I begin to notice that the room looks weird. For one, all of the walls are painted red instead of just the one accent wall. Second, the pantry from my dorm room at college is for some reason in the corner of my room. There's also a TV on top of my dresser, which is currently playing some episode of Psych. "Oh man, I must be dreaming." I take moment to plug my nose to check, and sure enough I can breathe through it.
The first thing I decide to do is try to push my hand through the door. I swing the door out and push my fingers against it, and eventually the wood somewhat melts away under my fingers, allowing my hand to go through it. I get my fingers all the way through, and then pull them out, leaving behind 4 holes where my fingers were. I try to think of what else I want to accomplish, but then I hear footsteps coming up the stairs. I realize it's my dad, and I didn't want him to see me while I'm dreaming, so I lose lucidity. I run into the closet and hide, until I eventually wake up.
A few weeks after learning about lucid dreaming, I dreamed I was in a cabin in the woods. I started to realize that I was dreaming. I looked around the cabin. I floated up to the support beams and sat on them, looking down. Then I remembered that I could change things. I floated back down to the floor, looked over to a bed, and willed a clone of myself to be there. Then I tried to have sex with her. :laughtillhurts: But it was too much change, and it woke me up. I didn't recall the dream until much later in the day while I was watching a play with my grandma. This was about five years ago.
Not sure if this counts.. but it was pitch dark in my room, and I was standing infront of my wardrobe, about to exit my room. Because it was so dark, I put my left hand on the wooden wardrobe door to guide me out of the room. I had but a brief moment to look around my room, and it was all so real.
The only thing that convinced me that this was a lucid dream was that I was standing in the middle of my room for no reason in the middle of the night. And a second later I was back in my bed again. It was an amazing experience and since then I believe in LDing.
My first LD was actually the night after I'd first learned about lucid dreaming. I "woke up" in my bed and suddenly remembered what I'd read about false awakenings, so I tried to read the title of a book on my shelf and sure enough the letters were all mixed up and wonky.
I was so excited that I shot out of bed and yelled "I'm dreaming!", and just as I'd made this shocking realization, the floor turned into goop and everything in my room converged on my face at once, effectively "knocking me out" and waking me up with a jolt.
For a long time I kind of got the impression that my subconscious somehow didn't want me to be lucid. Every time I managed it the dream scene would immediately fade away, or I would wake up before I could stabilize.
Because of that I was discouraged and forgot about it for a years, but have recently started trying again now that I'm studying in Japan. :thumbup:
I had my first LD 2 days ago. 9am I was watching The Nostalgia Critic Exorcist 2 and Doug's first movie review. I was so tired because I had to wake up early so I slept after watching DFM. I was in a dream having sex with someone I know, until I noticed that everything was too weird and not realistic at all and I thought it was a dream, with that I was Lucid. After 1 minute or more I woke up in the same room, same position, same feeling. I got out of bed and noticed that my vision was fucked up, like if my eyes were not synchronized. "Oh shit, Lucid dreaming can affect your physical body, great fucking news" I didn't panic because I thought that panicking wouldn't affect nothing. I was going to get out of my room until the house changed, it was the same house but it looked abandoned, like if it was in a Zombie Apocalypse. "Yeah I'm pretty sure this is still a dream. Calm down Daniel, you are having a lucid dream just don't get excited!" I walked straight to the stairs "what do people do when they are lucid dreaming?", first thing that came to mind was flying, so I jumped and all of a sudden I was floating, "So this is how it feels to float? I can't feel the ground!" I was moving by pushing the walls so I couldn't control my fly, it's like there was no gravity. I woke up, but it was a "futuristic" version of my room, "Is this a dream? This is so real... Is this reality or dream?" But then I saw something floating "Yeah this is a dream... or isn't?". Can't remember after that. I'm doing something on a table still in my futuristic version, my brother appears and greets me, I thought "In real life when I'm scared I can't control my thoughts, and I always imagined if I had mind power I wouldn't be able to control it", my mind(actually me just trying to test myself) thought "Kill me". A knife appears in my brother's right hand and then he walks into my direction. "Oh shit, calm down Daniel, calm down this instant. DO SOMETHING!" and then I thought "Kill yourself". My brother cuts his throat and dies while having some sort of seizure. Then I did some stuff that I won't say here and then my heart starts beating fast because of something I was doing. Woke up. Tried going back but nothing happened. So I spent 2 days reading about Lucid Dreaming and Astral Projection, and also "Gordon Xavier" helped a lot with his videos on youtube. Today I'm going to try: 2 Banana, 1 slice of Cheese, Hemi Sync and reality check(I do one every hour).
I remember when I was 15 yo I have make my first lucid dream and my objective was to have sex with a DC:
I was on a small street, when suddenly I realize that I was dreaming, I push my finger in my hand and I remember it was hurting. I started running and get in a library, I look at the ground and I could see all the detail and texture, all the DC were looking at me as if I was weird. Then I went on the street I saw a girl of my primary school, I took her and we have sex on the ground and people was watching us, I scream get away, but I was boring doing that, so after I wanted to fly, I start running and jump but I re-fall down, I re-try over and over ...
The first LD I could remember was when I was at a fantasy-esque land. I got lucky at that point for gaining lucidity and continued adventuring at my own free will such as asking a goblin for help, floating on a lake and waged fantasy war. When I woke up, I was in awe and continued sleeping hoping to control my dream once more. I got lucky again and managed to LD two times in a row. The second one turned into an erotic dream.
These experiences were the reason I joined this site to hone my skill for this hobby.
My first DILD (it was a complete accident):
I drove to a hotel where I met up with my friend Hannah. We were just sitting on one of the beds talking and I realized that I hadn't actually talked to or seen this girl in a few years and I realized that I was dreaming. I thought it was so cool but for some reason became concerned for my safety and I wanted to make sure the hotel room was locked.
I walked to the hotel door and locked it. I went back and sat on the bed next to Hannah and told her that I was dreaming. I said, in a kind of serious voice, something like: "I'm dreaming right now. I am not actually here. I am asleep, lying in my bed, dreaming." She just smiled, rolled her eyes, and looked at me like she used to when I said something silly.
Knowing that I was lying in bed while simultaneously was having this dream that I was in a hotel room seemed so profound at the time. I experimented a little with it and tried to feel myself lying in bed. Then I could feel myself lying on my back, and I felt the blankets of my own bed while simultaneously having the visual of the hotel room. This dual awareness (of lying in my own bed and being in the hotel room) became too much and I woke up.
Cant remember the whole thing since it was in 2008, but I do remember the scenery. I was in a field of wheat in a beautiful orange/pink/purple sunset. The trees in a distance were borderline jet black and this was in my backyard, which is not that big. I think I was spawning random stuff such as boulders, my ex, and a really big pool.
My first happened last night. In short, I found out my girlfriend was a heroin addict after searching for her to tell her i've finally become lucid. I also practiced a few techniques to stabilise the dream. Read my entry - "first lucid dream - out of nowhere" or something along those lines :)
This happened more so randomly and unintentional but I'll talk about it.
The most vivid lucid dream I had was after I had awoken and went back to sleep one night. I couldn't distinguish if my eyes were still close or open but, I remember laying on-top my mattress in my room. Everything looked the same, and the placement of a couple of furniture pieces were exactly where they were in the waking world. I sadly couldn't move but I could see with my eyes. I looked over the blackened silhouettes of my computer chair paired with another item and eventually from those black shapes emerged a creature.
Completely black and half my height, shared very similar aspects of the heartless from Kingdom Hearts, particularly the shadows. His hair almost resembled that of a straw hat with a kind of point on top. He had a yellow smiley face logo, similar to the one Impmon from Digimon has, on his chest. He approached me slowly towering me, sporting a wide grin with ground sharp teeth. Through various ways he exploited himself, I knew right away wanted to have sex with me. I wanted to engage in the act with him but again, I couldn't move due to being in a paralyzed state. Eventually before I could do more about it, I was snapped back to the waking world. The perception still did not change from me coming back but the figure vanished from view.
It was disappointing that I couldn't continue on in the moment, and I was ecstatic about it. About meeting someone/something that normally one wouldn't see in this physical world. But I enjoyed the intensity and vividness of the event nevertheless. I also drew a picture of the creature afterwords but I can't find it at the moment, though I could easily create a new one.
My first lucid dream was when I was a kid. It was also one of my longest. I don't remember how I realized I was dreaming but I was in my house the entirety of the dream. I liked the cartoon Fairly Odd Parents at the time and I wished for things to happen like the main character did on the show and they did. I met my imaginary friend and a few other wishes came true. I also remember weird static like dreams in between segments of the dream. When I woke up it was weird because I felt it go from the dream to my body. Its hard to describe.
I was eight years old and suffered from frequent nightmares. I told one of the girls at school about it and she told me that if you close your eyes in a dream then the dream cannot hurt you. She stated it as though it was absolute fact, and I believed it unquestioningly.
I dreamt that I was at my primary school shortly after. There were men in army vehicles driving around with machine guns. They fired at me and I remembered what my friend had told me. I closed my eyes, and sure enough the bullets did not hurt me. But as soon as I did so, I realised that I was dreaming and became lucid. I don't remember what I got up to in the dream after that, but I started to become lucid almost every time I had a nightmare.
I did not think this thread would get so many responses.. And so many truly remarkable experiences!
Once a soul experiences a lucid dream for the first time it gives an entirely new perception to our conscious experience, we all feel an eagerness to tell others about it and for good reason too.
It's like that twilight zone episode where there is the group of people living in the trash can all their lives and finally someone peers out beyond the trash can to the outside world, he must tell of his experience as best he can haha
My first lucid dream was about a month ago.
I did a WILD and my tactic for this was to imagine that I am climbing a rope as I fell asleep. As I was climbing this rope I kept saying to myself "I'm awake, I'm awake, I'm awake" etc.
Eventually this rope brought me up to a tree branch. When I climbed onto the branch I again said "I'm awake". As I moved aside some brush I saw a beautifully built tree house. "I'm awake?" I asked myself... "No, I must be dreaming!" I got excited but knew that I needed to maintain this excitement.
I climbed over to the tree house and saw people inside. They were small. At first they looked like children but then manifested into dolls. I asked them "who are you?"
One of the female dolls responded "we've been living in your head for a long time, you just forgot about us"
This response blew my mind, I started thinking "what could that mean?" As I started thinking this my dream became very unstable.
I immediately looked down at my hands, they were blurry at first and then came into focus. When I looked up I was no longer in a tree house. I was in a back yard. It was light outside, a really beautiful summer day. I'm with three other kids, and they appear to be sneaking into someone's back yard. It's a small back yard and we are hiding behind a shed overlooking someone's deck to a small house. I asked these kids "who are you? What are we doing?" A girl turned around, looked at me and smiled. Her response was "shhhhhhhh". Again I became unstable! I looked down at my hands and they were blurry, I tried to focus them but was unable to maintain focus this time.
I woke up.
I've had a few dreams similar to this since, but only just last night finally had a lucid dream where I was able to really influence the dream. I finally went flying last night and stopped worrying about what my dream characters thought. Tomorrow I'm leaving for a Vipassana meditation course which is 10 days of meditation, no eye contact or conversations. I'm really hoping that this mindfulness study will help me to be more mindful in my dreams. We aren't aloud to write or keep a journal (I don't think we would get kicked out or even caught, but there's a reason it's a rule so I will abide by it). So I won't be recording my dreams in a journal for 10 days, but I will practice dream recognition on our breaks.
My first lucid dream - aside from a short lucid moment as a child - took place in the back of my childhood backyard. I remember suddenly seeming to be aware as I standing in the backyard will a brilliant blue hue coming from the house and toward the bushes I was standing by. It was such a strange experience I couldn't wrap my head around it at the time. My first instinct was to attempt flight, but it was a bit tough. I did three huge jumps along the bushes, then woke up. I'm still VERY grateful for this dream.
My first lucid dream involved me fishing at a lake on a mountain and I reeled in a shrimp; ecstatic because I don't catch anything IRL , I decided I would use it as bait. However, IRL when I do reality checks I try to do them on the hour but since when I engage in long activities that the hour passes during cause me to forget to do an RC on the hour since I'm too engrossed in the activity, I do a reality check before I engage in the long activity in order to still meet my "RC Quota". So, before fishing for the fish using the shrimp my real life habit of doing an RC before the activity just in case I forgot to do one on the hour in the middle of the activity kicked in and I did a reality check before I started fishing again (the breathing through your blocked-off nose RC) and realised I was dreaming.
My first lucid dream involved me walking down an alleyway on a bright, hot summers day. There was chain fence on my right and buildings on my left. I was walking with my cousin who was on the right.
I was walking, and suddenly a thought hit me-that this could be a dream. I dismissed this at once and continued walking. I decided to do a quick reality check (nose plug) but was absolutely 100% sure that it was not a dream.
To say I was shocked that it was a dream is an understatement!
Then the dream promptly collapsed into blackness and reassembled itself into a lush vegetative landscape. I spent the next few minutes running from a T-rex.
I have had some lucid dreams as a child, but canīt remember them. About a year ago i started to go into lucid dreaming more seriously and had a lucid dream 2 days after practicing.
I woke up in my bed at my fathers house when my dad was leaving for work. He sat down in a chair next to my bed and we talked a bit. Then i noticed something wierd, he had long hair and a different face. It was even the face of Reece Jones.
I didnīt notice, but i thought "dad doesnīt have long hair"?. Then he changed his face again into some odl man from a survivalshow on TV. I still wasnīt completely sure that i was dreaming, so i said to him " I think i might be dreaming".
Then suddenly everything went black and i saw a painting floating in the dark. It was a picture of Jesus on the cross with an angry mob underneath. ( I am not the slightest religious, this is why i find it wierd). And then a floating text appeared who said "JESUS DID NOT DIE FOR YOUR SINS, RENOUNCE GOD". And then i woke up.
It happened a few years ago. Not sure how many though.
I was standing on one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center and I was surrounded by darkness. A sudden bright light hit my face (the source of the light was an airplane in the distance) knocking me off the building. I hit a hard surface, get on to my feet, and RUN!
It was a terrible, terrible dream. When I woke up, I was sobbing.
