My First Ld

[LastCaress392]

This is my first post on these forums, and i'd like to say hi to everyone. SO, a few months back I started reading about astral projection and meditation. This interested me a whole lot, but all of my tests with it came up with no results. I was surfing the web one day when i came upon a website about lucid dreaming. I did a bit of research, and read about how people achieved lucidity in the past. I thought that I wouldn't have any results, like with astral projection. I started to think a whole lot about lucid dreaming, and about dreaming in general, for about 2 weeks. Every night I would go to sleep, telling myself "i'll wake up in my dream" and just constantly telling myself that over and over again, but this did nothing. I guess i sort of gave up for a while, and just sleeping regularly. But one night, i was having a dream that I was riding a bicycle in a familiar sort of place, there were a few shops next to me, and grass to the left. it was during the day, and there was another person riding with me. we came upon a flight of steps, maybe 5 of them. I attempted to ride them, but in doing this my back tire slipped underneath me and i fell, in slow motion. after this i fell a whole lot, but not getting hurt. there were 4 of us now. we continued riding, and came to another set of stairs. i fell down these to, but this time I jumped awake. I didnt think about lucid dreaming at all before I did this. nor did I after i awoke. I got up and walked around for a few, showered, and sat back down on my couch (where i had fallen asleep the previous night) i eventually got more and more comfortable, and drifted off. Now i was in somebodies driveway, in the town i live in. there was a big truck in the driveway. it was night, and all of the stars were out, and the moon was shining. there was a man in the driveway that I was talking to. we were talking about an apartment complex, which just happened to be across the street. I looked at the window, which had a light in it. I could see the moon to the left of the building. The man continued talking to me, explaining that that apartment was a haunted building. many evil spirits roamed it's halls. He wanted to make sure that I wanted to purchase it (because apparently i was buying it) he said "are you sure you want to do this? People have been known to melt in their seats." which i got a sudden image of a man sitting in a recliner, screaming as his body became one with the leather. I replied yes. a second or so after, i looked up at the sky. there were 4 large flying ships passing overhead, going at extreme speeds. I started to think "this cant be real". I looked back at the apartment, and looked at the moon, which proceeded to get larger and fall towards the ground, though it stayed lit outside. I got scared, so I got on my bicycle(which i happened to have handy) and started to ride fast away from the scene. I felt the prescence of the people who I had been riding with in the dream from earlier around me. I turned to my right and saw one of them, with his bicycle turned upside down, along with him, wheels not even touching the ground, riding beside me. at this moment i realized what was happening. I got pretty excited, but i kept it together. my thoughts raced at what i wanted to do, and so I started to ride faster, and faster. I was considering jumping into the air with my bicycle, but just decided to keep riding. I was riding with much more ease than i had done in my previous dream, and i could feel everything as if it was happening. a few things were blurry, like i didnt see anything on the sides of the road, but i didnt think to stop to look. there was a large staircase in the middle of the road, taking up both lanes. it went up and dropped off at the top (which is still strange to me) i proceeded to jump over it, with much ease. i than rode around the streets at great speed, hopping over things, and ridiing on the walls for a few good minutes. as I came down from the wall, i started thinking "what should i do??" and I guess i just got too excited, and awoke. i immediatly remembered everything that happened, every last detail. This was my only experience with lucid dreams, and it was actually pretty cool. I havnt really done anything with LDs for a few good months. does anyone have any suggestions for how I can get back there again? and i have a bit of a clue, like sleeping and waking, than going back to sleep. thanks

[Xetrov]

Hey, congrants on your LD! Your next step could be to try out a few methods like MILD (works best with WBTB) or WILD and see if they bring you any luck (check out the main page or the forum for those). If you do get another LD, try a stabilizing technique like rubbing your hands (always works for me), to prevent premature awakenings. Good luck .