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Yes... you heard it - Willpower Induced Lucid Dream

I went to bed at 3 o´ clock in the morning. last night, but I wasn´t tired at all. After like 15 minutes I alredy felt tired, but I just couldn´t sleep for some reason. I had just had my School break and the next day (today) was going to be a school day. So I knew that HAD TO GET SOME SLEEP. I still couldn´t fall asleep and it was already like 4:15 in the morning and I had to wake up at 6:30! I always get too little sleep, but just 2 hours - that´s ridiculous. So I remembered that lucid dreams could make one really rested. So at that point I knew that I simply HAD to have a lucid dream. I knew that I hadn´t kept a dream journal for almost a year and I also hadn´t had any lucid dreams since last summer (!) - my hopes weren´t up, really. So I was all Kung-Fu about it and didn´t move at all. Usually I hate it when I hear my heart beat while I´m trying to fall asleep, but I just tried to ignore that. After a long time of waiting reality finally started mixing with the dream world. I remember seeing some figures in my room and trying to shoot them with a sort of a shotgun from my bed. I could vaguely hear the shots as well. I don´t know if I was already dreaming back then or maybe I was in one of those hypnotic stages... Either way I finally fell asleep. But the funny thing is - the dream took place in my apartment. I sort dreamt of waking up or something. It was really weird. It was still pretty dark and I decided to go to the kitchen. My mother and father were there and I realized that something was wrong, because my father is on a long trip right now. He won´t be back until a week or so. Then I made a bold decision to grab my father by his shoulders and start shaking him screaming "IS THIS A DREAM!!? IS THIS A DREEEEAMMMM!?" :lol: His eyes suddenly filled with fear and horror for some reason. It was a really weird and disturbing look he had in his eyes, so I pushed him away and he was gone... just like that *Poof*. I then, of course, realized I was in a dream. So I decided to look around a bit. And the detail of the world!!! GOD! It was excactly like real life. Maybe even a bit clearer. Everything looked so good. So I wanted to go to an apartment of a sexy girl or something ( :wink: ) and I started to spin around, like I had read in the tutorials. At that point I was so amazed - I had been afraid that I woud suddenly wake up, but this dream... It felt so secure. Most of the lucid dreams I´ve had so far have been breaf and over way too quickly (mostly because I´m too excited about having a lucid dream...), but this was totally another story. I stopped spinning, because it wasn´t getting me anywhere. I was still in my kitchen. But then I saw the sexy girl right there in my kitchen. She had just appeared and I thought - "Eehh... might as well have fun with her right here." So obviously I started kissing her and stuff, but here´s the weird thing - the kiss had a salty kind of a taste to it. It was really weird. But still enjoyable on some level. And at that point I lost control over my dream. I thought I had woken up and I wasn´t sure if I was still in a dream or what... I went from room to room trying to control my dream. I rolled on the floor in emotional agony, I banged my head against the wall, but the control was still somehow lost. And I still wasn´t sure if I was dreaming or not... It was really weird. And then some other dreams came along. Finally I woke up feeling pretty rested, indeed. At least I found the power in myself to actually get out of bed and start preparing for school. That´s something that seldom happens, even if I get enough sleep, and I had gotten just a few hours of it that night. So yeah... it was a pretty cool experience for me. Especially because the reality and dream world mixed so wildly. I felt pretty weird for a while after waking up, though. :| Just thought I´d share this. If you really want to have a lucid dream, but you haven´t had one in months or maybe even years and you haven´t kept a dream journal then it´s still possible to have one. All it takes is a little willpower. :wink:

This is a very valid technique. Willpower is all anyone needs to do anything really.

I too have noticed that some dreams just start off totally "grounded" in my mind, its like I could do anything and it wouldnt even shake the reality of the dreamworld.... and then theres the countless many that are like fleeting memories and almost impossible to hang onto (like you were saying :mrgreen: )

also a personal question, have you ever actually made out with a girl before? if not then that could explain the salty taste. when i was just going into puberty I used to have dreams where I was making out with girls and it always tasted like old chewed up bubble gum :barf: (I had never actually made out with a girl back then, I guess my mind thought thats what it would be like?)

isnt MILD basicly willpower induced LDing?

Why yes, I have kissed a girl before. Many times. My own explanation to this would be that deep down I felt that kissing the dream girl was wrong or something... So maybe it was my conscious giving me a sign that I shouln´t be doing this. :) Although... I can´t understand why - at the moment I don´t have a steady girlfriend. I have really good female friends who I can spend pleasant time with, but none of those relationships are serious enough to keep me from kissing a DREAM girl. Hey... maybe it was just a dream thing. Crap happens in dreams. I´ll give it another shot, though, as soon as I have another lucid dream. Or maybe I´ll finally ride a black Ducati ST3... :wink: