My first LD experience... On New Years Day

[Ramez]

This happened January 1 2006. I had been partying with friends all through new years eve, at about 4am me and 4 others left my house to go to another friend's house, we walked about 2 miles, in the cold night but it was okay because we had all had some alcohol, anyway to cut a long story short, we arrived at my friend Dom's house at about 6am and, at around 8am i was making my way home alone, and i was completely exhausted having been awake for roughly 20 hours. As soon as i got home I went up stairs and collapsed on my bed, of course i knew i was just about to get into a deep sleep but just before i slept, i just thought about what i would dream about, and i was imagining some things then I fell asleep, the next thing i can remember is being on a football pitch, playing a game with my school team, and i was thinking of new years eve and what i had done, then i thought to myself why was i playing football, it's new years day, then it occured to me i was dreaming, i found it very odd at first, and i just walked along the pitch looking around and taking everything in. A football rolled in front of me and i took a step back and struck the ball with all my strength, the ball flew far into the distance untill it was no longer visible, I looked behind me and all the other players were shouting at me, telling me to go get the ball. I ran over the fence around the pitch, and I jumped up to see over it, but I kept rising and rising untill i about 10 meters off the ground, this is where i realised I could do anything, then I flew around for a while over the area near my school, I located the ball inside a bin on the street, I flew straight towards the bin but i was going to fast, I collided with te bin and then i woke up... This experience was amazing to me and i had'nt really spoken to people about it before, but as i was surfing wikipedia.com i came across an article on lucid dreaming, which led me here and then i knew i had, had a lucid dream, i'm very anxious to have another lucid dream but i have not acheived anything yet, any tips, should i try staying up for 20 hours again? (lol)

[Burns]

Wow! That sounds like an awesome dream! You were even able to maintain lucidity for a good amount of time as well. You found the right place to learn more about LDing. Good luck!

[Oneironaut Zero]

Yup, many people don't get to experience something like flying on their very first lucid dream. Good stuff! I'd suggest centering around 8-9 hours of sleep and trying some of the techniques posted around the forum. Checking out the Tutorial section might help. Also, start up a dream journal. Getting into the habit of writing your dreams down will help you discover more dream signs and hints, such as realizing you were on a football field when it was New Years.

[Gwendolyn]

I would have given anything to experience that on my first one! That sounds so cool.