A brief glimpse at lucid dreaming.

Well I finally had my first lucid dream tonight and I have to say it was quite an interesting experience even if it did only last a few seconds.

In my dream I had just gotten out of the shower and got dressed. I suddenly had the feeling I was late for something so I look and there is an alarm clock on the bathroom counter only I can't read the first two digits. I left the bathroom and go to the living room where my roommate and his girlfriend are discussing whether or not he should go to work. I find out its 11pm which is apparently acceptable so I walk back into the bathroom where I notice that the toilet is overflowing. I'm not really sure what to do, so I look around for something to fix it or clean up or whatever and when I look back not only is it not overflowing its actually bone dry. At this point I notice its dark in the room so I went to turn the light, I had this weird sensation that I can't really describe, like something isn't right. I try to turn on the light and nothing happens and it reminds me to do a reality check. Now this is the strangest part for me. I realize I'm dreaming and all of a sudden I feel as though I'm being sucked through a hole thousands of miles away into my dream body and when I hit my body I stumble back. I gain my composure and walk to a window in my bathroom to look out but all I can see is my reflection and then I woke up. :(

So it didn't last long but I have to say it was quite an experience, hopefully one that begins to happen more often...and for longer periods of time. :D

Congratulations on your first LD! :D

Have a go at spinning round to retain lucidity, in my last LD (second one ever) i remembered to spin around when things started to 'fade'. And it worked! although in the end i think i wasn't concentrating enough because my dream changed back to a normal dream. But still the vividness is amazing, i can recall feeling the wind through my hair while running down a hill, and the background sounds of birds and water when i was beside a swimming pool. The only thing different that i can remeber doing that night to acheive lucidity (and i'm not sure if this is meant to help or hinder...) was being slightly drunk ;) I'll have to experiment and see whether this is a common factor in LD's to come...

Gratz on your first LD and many happy dreams for the future

Glor

Hmm..I'll have to try that next time. This time I really didn't have a whole lot of time to do anything because when I finally realized I was dreaming it ended fairly quickly. I had a bunch of dreams last night though and they are all extremely vivid and even now I can remeber them quite clearly.

I've been only remembering one dream per night for about a week, which is the amount of time i've kept my dream journal for. Until last night - i can remember 5 dreams! and they were all quite vivid too. Strange coincidence that it happened to both of us on the same night :wink:

Maybe it's something to do with talking about it on this site.....who knows?

Many vivid dreams to yall,

Glor