First Lucid Experience along with several other dreams
I'm new here, just made my account. Thought I'd post my experience and see if anyone has suggestions for more lucid dreams and/or explanations to what my dream(s) meant. Thanks
Several years ago, I was bored online and somehow ended up looking into lucid dreams. I never really knew what to expect, but I downloaded some audio file that was supposed to induce lucidity and listened to it at night, hoping to experience something. Nothing happened. I kind of lost interest and never really tried again.
Last night, I somehow looked into lucid dreaming again. It was about 10:00pm when I started looking and I found a website giving advice. I just kind of read over it quickly and kept in mind a few pieces of advice they gave.
It said to keep saying to yourself "This is just a dream", and to look at your hands. The method to gain lucidity was to wake up 2 hours before you would normally wake up, just for a second, without even opening your eyes and trying not to move. I normally wake up around 7am, so I set an alarm for 5am. I woke up on my own 4:58am (checked the time for a second, turned my alarm off), and kept saying in my mind, "This is just a dream." I lied there (on my back) for what seemed like a while, without any luck. Then I turned to my stomach, for a while. Then, for a moment I got a really weird feeling, as if I was high. All of a sudden, I felt like I teleported. I was laying down in my basement, head bobbing (as if trying to stay awake), I looked around, realized I was dreaming without checking my hands or saying anything. I felt a big rush of excitement, but managed to control it. It was very dark in the basement, but the TV was quietly on. I got up and started to walk to the door. I looked outside and saw that it was snowing very hard (which kind of scared me because it is mid summer right now). After I saw the snow, I felt cold and noticed I had my winter jacket on. It also felt hard to breathe. Then I started to walk around a little more into 2 or 3 different rooms that I didn't recognize. I remember thinking to myself what should I do next. I tried to imagine a friend appearing, but nothing happened. Finally, I looked at the staircase leading upstairs, and woke up.
I ended up having 3 more non lucid dreams afterwards, waking up in between each one.
I guess I will describe the other dreams in the Dream Interpretation subforum since they were non lucid.
Overall, it was a very fun experience and hope to have more.