Thread: First vivid fully lucid LD after 13 years !! Thanks to FILD

have been trying LD on and off for 13 years mostly off. I would have a flurry of interest and try 10 different techniques in the span of a few days then give up.

Tried EVERYTHING. WILD, MILD, VILD. Hypnosis. Bought a REM Dreamer for $200. The closest I ever got was one or two blurry LD lasting a few seconds

Last night I decided enough was enough and I was going to commit to this. I read a very helpful post on Reddit that said to stop trying so many techniques and dedicate 5-6 days a week to ONE technique (link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreami..._days_or_less/) . The technique I decided is WBTB + FILD. I woke up after a few hours of sleep and either I was really awake or it was a FA. Can't really remember. Did FILD and felt/heard an "ejection" noise like a torpedo out of a submarine. I saw my self laying on the bed and then I "spun" to the left and had a first person LD which lasted 2-3 minutes. I was so happy during this and just wanted to run outside in the sun and celebrate. I remember savoring just how vivid everything was.

I feel confident its only going to get better from here. I downloaded the Lucidity app and am going to diligently log my dreams and do WBTB as many nights as I can.

EDIT: I also have had a huge fear of SP. My advice to people on this forum who are reading posts is to stop reading about Lucid dreaming. It sounds counter intuitive but many of the posts online are made up of how people had orgies with celebrities or only focus on exagerrated SP stories. If I could go back in time I would just pick the technique that made the most sense to me (WBTB + FILD makes the most sense to me) and stuck with it with a dream journal. Instead I would get discouraged by reading fake or hyped up stories of people succeeding from strange techniques and I would try so many and never get in the groove.