Thread: My First Lucid Dream: Dild

Don't feel too incredibly bad about being scared and running. It sounds like you lost lucidity. If you're completely aware that you're in a dream, thus experiencing a lucid dream, then you can be aware that nothing can actually hurt you in a dream. It sounds like something that would happen though. If something in a dream scares you, and you try to make it go away by spinning (although I thought that spinning was just a technique to increase vividness of your dreams) and then it, the puppet, still be there your mind is probably thinking maybe I can't do anything in my dream, maybe this thing can still hurt me. By then you've lost lucidity.

My tip: look around the forums for lists of lucid dreaming abilities. Find one and set it as your goal, go to sleep thinking about how bad you want to try that one (just to keep it on your mind, so that if you use a technique involving narration just allow that to keep your priority). Just have an idea of what you want to do once you become lucid. That way, you won't give yourself the opportunity to loose it, like you did here. Just remain calm because you could excite yourself to the point of waking yourself up and try commanding your dream. Say "Increase vividness," in order to do so. Also you could try spinning or rubbing your hands together.

A lot of people don't have an experience in their first couple months of LD'ing, so great job man. If you aren't keeping a dream journal, you should start one with the dream you posted here. That's pretty sweet for the first dream in a journal to be a lucid.

I've personally never tried spinning, because when I see something scary in a lucid dream I like to just kick the sh*t out of it.