My Journey So Far

[razua]

So far I've been no good with the lucid dreaming, I'm not yet catching the signs so I can become lucid (I have to get better at the RCs) I've made a few attempts at astral projections. In those attempts I tried to focus, got real tired, next thing you know I'm doing a very quick dream and like a jolt (like a quick shock running trhough me) I'm waking up in a rush a few minutes later believing I had failed. I don't know if I'm jolting out of my sleep b/c I was so intent on staying awake that when I realize I'm dreaming and must have fallen asleep I'm immediately reacting in a harsh jolt to get up or what. The dream (or whatever it is) comes so quick, I'll see something for a sec and BAM I'm jumping out of my bed after a rush and jolt. I will be trying again tonight to see what happens. I'll keep you all posted on my journey as I try and try and try again.

[razua]

Alright folks, I would like to assume that I had my first lucid dream (a DILD)! For the first time (since I've been practicing RCs) I told myself in the dream that it was only a dream. At that point I gained lucidity (so I think), everything felt soooooo real I could feel it! It only lasted for some time before I went back to just dreaming and eventually woke up.

[.jared.]

Thats awesome! Congratulations and good luck in the future. I hope that that happens to me soon.

[Steohawk]

At that point I gained lucidity (so I think), everything felt soooooo real[/b] If you're wondering whether or not you were lucid, ask yourself how real things felt. If they were at least half-real, then you had a semi-lucid dream. If they were nearly perfectly real and detailed, then you had a full lucid. Even if it was only a semi-lucid, that means that full lucids are just one more step away.

[Scruffy]

Congratulations, razua. The first lucid always feels great, and it's a milestone of dreaming progress. Good luck with more progress. Also, the only requirement for a dream to be a lucid one is that you know you're dreaming. How real the dream feels is irrelevant to lucidity; you could be completley lucid, thinking just as you do when awake, though the dream may be completley unrealistic.