1st 'absolutely certain it was lucid' dream
Hi everyone!
My first post here - just wanted to share my first lucid experience.
I've been interested in Lucid Dreams for many years now but have never had any success in realising one. Over the last week I have been practicing Hargart's Finger Induced Lucid Dream technique.
Last Monday, the very first night of trying, I had what I can only describe as a merged dream/partial lucid dream. Initially I followed the FILD procedure, woke up with an alarm clock, relaxed, did the finger movements and then clearly recall doing a 'nose pinch' RC which revealed that I was in fact dreaming.
My lucidity didn't last long and my first attempt to leave my bed saw my vision jerk erratically and I lost lucidity almost immediately only to almost 'melt' into another dream which I have limited recall of but I believe it to have involved drinking a cup of tea after a false-awakening.
Obviously very excited by this progress I repeated FILD over the next week with no subsequent success - until early this morning at 3am GMT.
I awoke before my alarm [set for 3am] and felt strangely paranoid as if I was aware of something in my room, something not quite right. Lying on my left side, I couldn't really shake the feeling and then I was pretty sure I saw something rush across the room out of the corner of my eye. I sat bolt upright and switched on my table lamp. Nothing.
Cursing myself for being paranoid, I switched out the light. I would note that the time on my alarm clock was around 2am, so I believe I must have drifted off again before waking around 3am when my alarm went off. I practiced FILD and initially my RC came back negative. I relaxed for a while and then tried again. I felt a clear tingly sensation. What happened next is blurry, even from my written account after the LD.
Certainly I experienced sleep paralysis. More paranoid feelings - not sure if I was again aware of a 'presence' of whether it was just a reality to dream transition. I retained control, switched on my table lamp - this did not work, I flicked the switch but the light did not turn on. I thought this odd, did my RC and realised that I could breathe through my nose - everything pointed towards it being a lucid dream! :D
As I was sitting on the right side of my bed, I wasn't going to have the problem of getting out this time but still I took a moment to compose myself, closing my eyes and qualifying the fact to myself that I was in fact dreaming. My room was quite dark and the details were a little blurry but I was conscious and in control.
I had already planned well in advance my initial strategy for a projected successful lucid dream. It was simple enough - walk through the lucid construct of my house to the closed door of my lounge, imagine someone who couldn't possibly be there being in there, open the door and see what happens.
I theorised that I probably wasn't going to have a long time before I returned to my bed so I opened my bedroom door and stepped out onto the third floor landing (I live in a three floor town house). It was very dark. I was aware of a fear I have regarding Lucid Dreaming - that I would accidentally dream myself into a nightmare where Freddy Krueger arrives to kill me [pesky 80's horror!] Thankfully I was spared the materialisation of this fear.
Placing my hand on the bannister produced the weirdest of results - a simultaneous alarm going off - perhaps two or three chimes similar or identical as the ones my alarm clock makes plus a brief vision of my alarm clock's red lit numbers showing it was after 3am. Also, and this is really weird, I felt like I was sifting through a bunch of cosmetics - various bottles and boxes which I could feel instead of the bannister.
I shook off this strangeness and made my way down to the first floor. I'm not entirely convinced that I walked down all the steps, I feel it was slightly too fast so maybe I shifted my perspective from the second floor to the ground floor or perhaps I just do not recall the transition.
Regardless, I ended up outside my lounge door. I closed my eyes again and focused on the belief that a certain person, being a guy I chose a hot actress (well naturally!?), would be found on the other side. I pushed the door open and the person who I had hoped to find in the room was sitting on one of my sofas, the main lights of the lounge had been turned on but it was still dark outside.
I talked to the dream character for a little bit, saying stuff like "I can't believe it's you" to which the DC did reply but I can't really remember what it/she said. It/she did seem to be hinting [bad sub-conscious, bad!!] that something sexual might have been on the cards. During this exchange I found the focus of my vision tended to shift and blur, I will have to note this effect for future LDs as it appears to have heralded the end of my lucidity.
The DC invited me to have dinner with it/her and as I turned to see the table [I can't remember if I had time to sit down or not], I noticed a tasty looking chicken dish and maybe a bottle of wine. Then I woke up in my bed. I did another RC to ensure that it wasn't a false awakening and satisfied that I was awake again wrote as much as possible down on a nearby pad of paper. The alarm clock showed 3:30am GMT.
I then lay awake for a good half an hour buzzing with the OMG factor of it all and also a headache which I attribute to a couple of beers drunk a few hours before bed. Maybe this latter sympton pre-empted the end of my LD?
So I'm obviously elated at this first real success. Any questions/thoughts anyone would like/care to add?? Should I class the partial lucid as an actual lucid dream or merely a prologue to the main event, as it was?
Thanks to Hargart for his excellent method which worked wonders for me when nothing else has.
Best wishes,
Dreamvak
