Thread: My first real lucid

I have had lucid dreams in the past but none as vivid and controlled as this one.

I started out in a normal dream where someone was trying to steal something from my back pack while I was inline some where, I turned and told this person off and then insulted his family which made him charge at me I ducked under him and ran through a door way which led me into a dark room with a huge pool. I jumped into the pool and and found it full of tubes that connect to the pool cleaner. They were trying to wrap around me, this is when I realized I was dreaming. I swam to the edge of the pool and jumped out. Looking around I found I was in a huge room with some stadium like lights across the center of the ceiling, I tried turning them on one at a time using my mind. I found this very difficult they would slowly turn on only to fade back off. Finally when I had some of the lights on, I was thinking what I should do I could think of nothing but the tubes in the pool. So I tried raising them out of the water (this too took a lot of effort) once I had a lot of the tubing out of the water I tried to make shapes I made a circle, a square and then a triangle. At this point I started to lose control and woke up.

All in all it was a good dream. I am some what new to lucid dreaming about two months my lucid dreams in the past have been foggy and much harder to control. I have read alot of people talk about spinning and suggesting things to make conrtolling your dreams easier. Such as saying things like when I walk throught this door I will find a wand or the lights will be on. Only none of this comes to me when I'm lucid. If anyone has tips or tricks about this please let me know. I cant wait to try again!

Hey! Congrats on the lucid

The really really vivid ones are still kinda hit or miss with me...I'll try to will things to appear and sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, or sometimes they appear but just look all wrong. I find that a slightly more passive approach is sometimes helpful. In otherwords, next time you're lucid, just go along with whatever story is already playing. Then maybe alter things around you slightly, rather than trying to compose an entire new story. It's more relaxing and allows you to focus better. Speaking of focus, something I like to do alot which is occasionally helpful, is to look at my hands when I'm lucid. If your'e near a mirror or can manifest one rather easily, a reflection of yourself can also help you focus.

Actually this is all excellent advice for myself as well.

Good luck!

thanks for the suggestions i'll try them out next time I'm lucid whenever that may be