First post and an interesting experience

hello, stumbled across your forum on my quest to learn more about lucid dreaming-
I haven't had a lucid dream yet... I think- but lemme tellyou how this dream went down.

For a long while now (not habituatlly) I would enjoy strange dreams by setting my alarmclock an hour or two before I intended to awake and start my day. I found that if I woke up, and went back to bed right away, the thought I fell asleep with turned into the topic of my dream (assuming it didn't become something else soon after). When I do this, I like to hold dream conversations with people, you know- those I would like to meet, trial running asking a girl who caught my eye out, or just any whathaveyou-I started this as a kid when I would sleep through my alarm clock, and I would dream the clock in my mind as I responded to it auditorily.

But a week ago.. I woke up prematurly at 4am, grogilly set my clock to 9 or 10, then fell asleep. Then I was awake... but I wasn't... It was like no other dream I've had before (tho I didn't know I was dreaming at the time). The dim, dark imagry I usually have with my dreams turned into the most vivid real life scene of my room I could imagine. It was like 8am morning light through my bedroom window and everything was soooo clear... I dreamt I was moving towards my door a few inches off the floor, at a snails pace, oozing across it getting closer... and closer... and closer.... I studied how strange the scene was, and noticed my door was gone...then I realized I was dreaming and I felt instantly anxious and woke up.

Since then I've been reading like a mofo on lucid dreaming and am alllllll about doing this thing, I think I'll stick around for awhile- thanks for reading :)

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Originally posted by Tattoo
..then I realized I was dreaming and I felt instantly anxious and woke up.

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Welcome to Dream Views, man. :cooler:

By that quotation above, you're not stranger to lucid dreaming.
Lucid dreams are simply those in which you know you're dreaming. And I'm sure that, if you've been experimenting with dreams since you were a kid, you've probably realized when you were dreaming, while you were dreaming, no?

If you haven't before, you did just then.^

So, congratz. :wink:

Thanks for the welcome,

I dont know if I've ever attempted to excert control in a dream, but I might of been lucid before... I dunno really I've been playing with dreams for as long as I've had an alarm clock- when I was 8 (I still use the same one), but I never used it as a, for lack of a better word, novelty. Just to try and form what my dreams were about, instead of controling them as they happened. I was content with that

That dream I had a couple weeks ago tho, the really wierd part was, because it was the most 'real' dream I've ever had, I actually thought I was awake- I had to figure out I was dreaming, it scared the shit out of me, it was like I was being sucked out of my face towards the door