Hello all
I'm extremely happy at the moment because this morning I had my second LD of this week! Seeing as I'm still a beginner, this seems like good progress. It was also the longest LD I've ever had, thanks to techniques which I heard about on these forums, such as examining my hands, touching things, using verbal commands etc. I think I was in the dream for nearly ten minutes, which is a big step forward seeing as in the past, before I really knew anything about lucid-dreaming, I would always awake immediately after becoming lucid.
Anyways, I won't recount all of the dream here, it was mostly just me wandering around the dream-world (a strange reconstruction of my home town) touching things and trying to stay in the dream as long as possible without waking up. However, towards the end of the dream I got a little more ambitious. I remembered a lucid-dream I had last year, where I found myself in a place amongst the mountains in Norway which has special significance to me (a place I've visited many times in real life). I decided I would attempt to visit this place.
I went back through a door into a room I'd just been in, expecting to find this place. The room was different, colder, with patches of snow on the ground. I ignored the room and walked towards the patches of snow, trying to imagine the place I wanted to visit opening up around me. Eventually I found myself in a huge, dark expanse. There were some faint stars overhead and I could just make out the outlines of mountains, black against the slightly lighter sky. But it seemed very empty, lonely, different from how I remembered it. I realised there should be the faint, twinkling lights of houses and streets up in the mountains, and in a flash, these appeared. However, they were somewhat blurred. I felt that to sharpen things up, I would need to take a good long look at my hands, but it was too dark to see anything. I wanted light, so I willed the first thing I thought of into existence: an old Victorian style gas lamp-post (very much like the one in Narnia!). It wasn't lit, so I pointed at it and a flame sprung into being, illuminating softly falling snow. Feeling extremely proud of myself, I stepped into the light and warmth, looking at my hands and rubbing them together. Unfortunately I awoke shortly afterwards, but I felt really happy that not only had I had my longest LD to date, but I'd been able to manipulate the scenery and create objects in a way I've never done before.
I'm very glad I found this forum :)
P.S. On a bit of a tangent, I seem to recall reading somewhere that you're more likely to wake up if you try to create huge outdoors scenes, because of the strain on your imagination or something like that... anyone know if this is generally true?
