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I have been able to remember my dreams for years now, but I never tried to have a lucid dream, although I had heard about it. Last night, I decided to give it a try. I consulted wikipedia and decided to use the MILD method after sleeping for 5 hours and staying awake for 1 hour. Before I went to sleep, I was thinking about lucid dreaming. While I was falling asleep, I would daydream and think to myself, "I'm dreaming", but nothing would happen. Eventually, I began a real dream, and remembered thinking that what was going on was bizzare. Then I thought to myself, "I'm dreaming", and achieved lucidity for the first time. I only remember being in front of a large, blue, ghost like entity. I feel like I was watching in third person but I am not entirely sure. Immediately after this, my ears began ringing, and my dream was replaced by bright white light. I was in a state of fear and panic, and woke up as if from a nightmare. This experience was very unexpected and unpleasant. Even more unexpected was that I had achieved lucidity on my first try, and without using the method that I intended to use. I also felt that I gained consciousness that I was dreaming the moment my dream began.
I guess this leads me to a question for you more experienced people out there-I am interested in controlling my dreams but I do not want to experience these unpleasant sensations again. What are the odds of them occurring again?
Was this an uncommon occurance for a first LD, and do you think that this blue ghost I saw was my dream or hypnagogic imagery?
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Night frights can happen to us all, even the most experienced of us. There something you can't control and can be quite scary, but if you havn't had such an experience in the past i don't expect you to have one in the forseeable future. The fear you felt could be your realisation of what you are doing, i've spoke to people who have had similar things happen to them.
Don't let it turn you of, it probably won't happen again.
Sweet Dreams
