First willed Lucid Dream

Well, after having success with the HILD technique, I promptly had a lucid dream.

The dream starts off with me walking down the hallway of my old highschool. Then I actually lifted up my hand, and take a look at my digital watch. I can't even believe I did that. So I do that, look away, look back, and the readout changed. When I looked at first it said 7:02. When I looked again the time was all garbled, like parts of the 7 and 2 were missing.

I then realize that this is a lucid dream, and become very excited. The excitement wasn't hindering the dream at all, at first, despite what I read. I then am trying to figure out how to get where I want to go, because that hallway wasn't where I wanted to be. First thing I thought of doing was reliving a past experience of hanging out at this park behind my old apartment building during twilight with this guy I had a crush on then. I think about that experience a lot in real life, and decided to try and relive it now. I was just brimming with the excitement of all the possibilities.

One problem I had was, how the hell do I get back to that park? I close my eyes, trying to will myself there, which was a HUGE mistake. Just closing my eyes made the world waver in it’s reality, and made me lose control. I open my eyes, and I'm still not there, and now I can feel the dream unraveling. I then do the same mistake again, like an idiot, and close my eyes, and try and will myself there. Now it starts working because I can feel a warm outside wind, and I can feel this guy's arms around my back, but the dream just can't hold on, and ends there.

Is this another lucid certainty like lightswitches and watch readouts, or is it just me? Does closing your eyes hinder your control? Because I closed my eyes in a previous unwilled lucid dream, and remember that same feeling of losing control.

Congratulations!

Congrats on HILD!

Many report that closing their eyes in LD causes awakening. But some claim that closing eyes allows for scene switching and deeping lucid. I prefer to keep my eyes open in LD.

I'd suggest you use the search function and look for "spinning". This technique often works for going from one dream location to another.

You may also try flying up into the clouds, then flying back down to the new location.

Thanks Gez.

Yeah I heard of spinning, but I just never thought of it at that moment. I was so excited with all the possibilities. It's the possibilities of everything you could ever want. It was so daunting.

Congrats, SA. :wink:

I think the eye-closing is different for everyone. I've experienced both effects with closing my eyes, so I understand where you're coming from. Even switching scenes I've had to open them once or twice, and have had the dream start falling apart in between scenarios. But also I've done that when asserting to myself verbally that "I'm dreaming I'm dreaming" when I was about to do something like fly or get into a massive battle. Then I open my eyes and everything is much more vivid and the LD lasts longer.

I guess it just depends on the situation and your frame of mind whenever it is you have your eyes closed.

And Welcome to Dream Views. :cooler:

Congrats!...after your able to will yourself to have LDs you can master other techniques extremely fast.

In the one lucid dream I had that wasn't a VERY realistic false awakening, I felt the dream world waver and felt like I was going to fall over onto my head, and such, but I fixed it with a "Stabalise my lucidity NOW." it worked!

Try that next time, hope it helps. :)