Thread: It Happened!

I can't believe it. I'd say I'm still very new to lucid dreaming. The concept I only heard of maybe 6 months ago, and not until about a month ago did I work on both retaining my dream memory and working on becoming lucid. In fact I'd say I dedicated about a solid week of really hard work put into my dreaming. For example; before I'd go to bed at night I'd tell myself out loud "remember your dreams" or "after you dream wake up and write it down." And in fact the first night I did that I woke up 3 times after each dream, and this is pretty crazy because I sleep very hard. And the cool thing was they were all within about 90 minutes of each other, which really helps me in believing all the information I've read. During the day I'd look at things and question them, question my surroundings and getting used to telling myself I'm in reality. I honestly didn't expect lucidity in my dreams anytime soon. But I worked on all this very hard, and I've been remembering my dreams for about 3 weeks, pretty much every night I remember my dreams, I lost a little motivation for doing all this but my remembering of my dreams when I'd wake up has been outstanding. I haven't remembered dreams like this for a long long time.

Well like I said it's been about 2-3 weeks since I've really concentrated on the lucid dreaming. But just last night it actually happened. It was so amazing, I can't explain it. It's such a phenomenon to be able to do something like this. Here's what happened, and it wasn't much but it's a start.

I was at sort of a dance party, people I knew were there, it was actually in a house. Well this old female friend of mine came up to me at this dance party and was hitting on me but she looked run down (she had a kid recently in real life). So I walked away to another room, and I remember saying to myself "that wasn't that girl" or something like that, basically I knew something about that situation was odd. And it's right then that I said holy shit, I'm in a dream!!! And as that happened, everything became so vivid, a little more vivid than a normal dream, meaning I could pretty much draw the room and everything I saw. My head felt a little wierd, I don't know how to explain this but as soon as it happened I almost felt fear for a split second, but then extreme excitement because I knew how all this happened. I thought of my practice and how cool this was, like it was completely me in the dream. As soon as that initial excitement stage came I was surprised to still be in my dream, and I managed to try and calm myself down a little bit. I faintly remember saying "please don't wake up, calm down" or something to that degree. After I gained some composure I walked over to a person standing by me and hit them with my palm fairly hard in the chest because it's something I'd never do, it was odd I know but then I said to them "it doesn't matter I just hit you it's a dream!" After that it dawned on me that I could pretty much do anything I want, although I remember having a hard time in my dream trying to switch scenarios. I felt like I had to do something like that Japanese guy on the new show Heroes, and clinch my face. I didn't have the opportunity to change the scenario. My mind wandered in all sorts of directions as something I wanted to do which got me a little more excited and it's just about then that I woke up. I woke up and was disappointed slightly but super excited I even teared it was making me smile so much! Haha. Well I remember falling back to sleep after a while, and dreaming some more but didn't become lucid I hope this happens more often, I want that again. It's amazing!!!

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