First lucid dream[s] (had two in same night)

A while back I posted about consuming beer before bed and how it increased my dream recall. Well, I was out drinking again last night and I slept through the night without bothering to try to remember the dreams I was having. Then after sleeping for about 6 hours, I got up with a bad hangover and drank some cranberry juice and got back in bed. After lying in bed for a bit, falling in and out of sleep, I started to hear that loud static sound and all I could see was black then the sound faded away and I thought, "I'm probably asleep now" so I tried the plug-nose reality check and it worked! Then some hypnagogic imagery appeared and immediately after I found myself in a scene. I was rubbing my hands; telling myself I wanted more clarity and it worked; said I wanted a person to appear when I turned around and it worked. It was quite easy to manipulate my dream. I let the dream fade, and I found myself seeing black again, then the same thing happened over again: heard the static noise start up and fade, did the reality check, hypnagogic imagery appears, then I went into a scene and tried more things like spinning (which felt pretty cool).

I didn't imagine to have this much freedom in my first lucid dream! It was a blast.

Alcohol sure seems to have a great effect on dreams during the night from my experience.

I have one question: During the dream, I could feel my body lying in my bed, so I felt kind of limited in the movements I would make. So I tried to “imagine” making the movements, because I had a suspicious that if I really tried to move, my physical body would move and I would wake up. Is this true? The next time I’m in this situation, should I continue to “imagine” moving, or do what’s natural and move ignoring that I feel like I’m still lying in bed?

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Originally posted by dearly
I have one question: During the dream, I could feel my body lying in my bed, so I felt kind of limited in the movements I would make. So I tried to “imagine” making the movements, because I had a suspicious that if I really tried to move, my physical body would move and I would wake up. Is this true? The next time I’m in this situation, should I continue to “imagine” moving, or do what’s natural and move ignoring that I feel like I’m still lying in bed?

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That's a good question. I've had that happen before, where I can feel my body in bed, and then when I try to move in the dream, my real life body moves, and I wake up. I have a feeling that if you are aware of your body in bed, you are probably going to wake up soon anyway, but your idea of "imagining" your movements might have some merit. You said that you tried it -- what happened?

Hmm, are you sure it's the alcohol and not the cranberry juice?

I think I'll try drinking cranberry juice before sleep. Considering that I haven't had any in a long while it'll be both pleasant and a purposeful attempt, heh.

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Originally posted by TygrHawk


That's a good question. *I've had that happen before, where I can feel my body in bed, and then when I try to move in the dream, my real life body moves, and I wake up. *I have a feeling that if you are aware of your body in bed, you are probably going to wake up soon anyway, but your idea of \"imagining\" your movements might have some merit. *You said that you tried it -- what happened?

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It works, but it's not very efficient. The way I would describe it is, in your dream you imagine that you are going to plug your nose and then it happens in your dream. The same way you imagine \"I'm going to walk over to that poster\" in your dream, and your dream body does it without much effort from you. I felt kind of limited in the movements I could make because I had to spend too much time trying to imagine making them, because since I still felt my body in bed, I suspected if I move as I normally would my physical body would move also.

Same thing for when I tried spinning. I just thought \"I'm going to try spinning now\" then I started spinning out of control without any actual physical effort to rotate my body manually.

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Originally posted by Merlock
Hmm, are you sure it's the alcohol and not the cranberry juice?

I think I'll try drinking cranberry juice before sleep. Considering that I haven't had any in a long while it'll be both pleasant and a purposeful attempt, heh.

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I don't think it was the cranberry juice. I just had a little bit to settle my stomach.

By the way, when I got in bed at night for the first time after drinking, as soon as I lid down I heard the "loud static noise" (is there an actual term for this?) right away, and heard it for about 30 minutes until I finally fell to sleep. I always hear this after I've had a large amount of alcohol and then lie down--is this normal? It's like my brain is in over-drive and I can hear that sound quite vividly--maybe this is why I have such vivid dreams, increased dream recall, and increased lucidity probability after comsuming alcohol? Some feedback on this would be nice.

For what it's worth, if you want to try it, the cranberry juice I had was Cranberry Light Cocktail 100% Vitamin C. But like I said, I don't think this had anything to do with my dreams.

I guess I will upgrade my title to Lucid Student now that I've had my first lucid dream. :)

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