At Long Last, I Became Lucid...

[leaflock]

Ever since my friend informed me about lucid dreaming several months ago, I have been going to bed night after night with great hopes, and in the morning waking with no success. Until today. I have been severely concentrating on the WILD method. So last night I got further than ever before. I felt my body enter sleep paralysis. But then something happened that I did not expect: I slipped into a dream in which I was still in my bed and still felt the sleep paralysis. My hands started moving as though I was a puppet on strings. This, for some reason, didn't alert me and I didn't dare disturb my strange movements in the fear that I would disrupt sleep paralysis. Eventually people began coming into my room and asking me why my hands were moving like so. I got angry at them, as they were disrupting my WILD. I was completely unaware that I was already in the dream. Crazy. Next thing I know I'm standing at the entrance to my college's cafeteria with my family. We are about to enter for a meal. I turn around and think, "I might as well do a reality check". I look at my hands. Where some of my fingers were before, they were now replaced by two fingers spirally entwined. And then I realized, with great excitement, "I'm dreaming!" I was so overjoyed - in a way I haven't been in real life for quite some time - and then I determined that I should do something fun. I ran outside as quickly as I could, crouched on the ground, lept upwards and took of flying. I flew high above my school, at times diving in close to the ground and then swooping back up again. Beyond that, I have very fuzzy memories of being in a dark room and realizing that I was losing the dream. I wish it had lasted longer, but the taste I did get was amazing. Now I'm pumped to hone my ability to lucid dream. And a thanks to everyone on this board, it was very helpful reading things on here as I spent months pursuing this.

[Patrick]

Ever since my friend informed me about lucid dreaming several months ago, I have been going to bed night after night with great hopes, and in the morning waking with no success. Until today. I have been severely concentrating on the WILD method. So last night I got further than ever before. I felt my body enter sleep paralysis. But then something happened that I did not expect: I slipped into a dream in which I was still in my bed and still felt the sleep paralysis. My hands started moving as though I was a puppet on strings. This, for some reason, didn't alert me and I didn't dare disturb my strange movements in the fear that I would disrupt sleep paralysis. Eventually people began coming into my room and asking me why my hands were moving like so. I got angry at them, as they were disrupting my WILD. I was completely unaware that I was already in the dream. Crazy. Next thing I know I'm standing at the entrance to my college's cafeteria with my family. We are about to enter for a meal. I turn around and think, "I might as well do a reality check". I look at my hands. Where some of my fingers were before, they were now replaced by two fingers spirally entwined. And then I realized, with great excitement, "I'm dreaming!" I was so overjoyed - in a way I haven't been in real life for quite some time - and then I determined that I should do something fun. I ran outside as quickly as I could, crouched on the ground, lept upwards and took of flying. I flew high above my school, at times diving in close to the ground and then swooping back up again. Beyond that, I have very fuzzy memories of being in a dark room and realizing that I was losing the dream. I wish it had lasted longer, but the taste I did get was amazing. Now I'm pumped to hone my ability to lucid dream. And a thanks to everyone on this board, it was very helpful reading things on here as I spent months pursuing this.[/b] Congratulations on your first lucid! The first time is always incredible. Although your lucidity didn't last long, keep it up and check out some tutorials on retaining lucidity; they've really helped me out.

[dodobird]

Congratulations!

[Moonbeam]

All right! That's impressive, to have a first lucid as a WILD! I had a WILD the other night (only like my 2nd or 3rd successfull WILD) and I thought I was being viciously tickled during the sleep paralysis. I was angry too, for the same reason as you! But as soon as I realized it wasn't real, it went away. I had problems getting deeply into the dream, and was aware of my real body periodically. I had problems even standing up in the dream; I ended up crawling and slithering around. I think it was because I felt my sleep paralysis too much. I hope I can improve on that next time. Because I wasn't deeply in the dream, I was on the verge of losing it the whole time, and actually came out of it once or twice. Something that I used to get back into it, that may help you in the future, is the DEILD technique, I think it is dream-exit induced lucid dream. Usually, it is used to have a lucid as you are coming out of a regular dream--by not moving and focussing as you wake up, you can sometimes get back into the dream you just left, except you are now lucid. I used this to return to the lucid dream; when I started to lose it, I focussed on patterns, like on the floor on on people's clothing, and I could get back into it like that. Anyway, the first lucid is very exciting, so congratulations! I hope it is the first of many.

[The Blue Meanie]

Eventually people began coming into my room and asking me why my hands were moving like so. I got angry at them, as they were disrupting my WILD. I was completely unaware that I was already in the dream. Crazy.[/b] Hahaha. That's awesome, it's one of those typical *doh* dream moments. They happen, especially during the transition/FA part of some WILDs. Anyway, to DV!!!