Thread: 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