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      My First (kinda) Lucid Experience

      Hello everyone!

      I came upon this site after reading an article that linked to this page on my new favorite web page, Damninteresting.com. I followed a link at the end of the article and it brought me here. I spent some time on this site, reading about lucid dreaming, and was so intrigues, that I left stopped at Borders on the way to work to pick up a book for further reading. I had heard a little about lucid dreaming years ago, and have always been interested in the science of dreaming. Although I had never actually experienced a lucid dream before, I believe I may have come close a couple times while experiencing sleep paralysis (which had occurred quite a few times prior to my research into lucid dreaming.) In the last 18-24 months, I have had more dream recall than I have ever had in my life, as well as I can remember.

      The book I picked up at Borders that day was Dr. Stephen LaBerge's Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. I flew through the book, and within a week, I experienced what I would describe as my first lucid dream experience.

      Here's how it went down. I was laying down, watching TV after awakening earlier than normal, after maybe 5 hours sleep. My landlord was outside mowing my grass, and I dozed off to sleep. Upon sleeping, I began to dream about my roommate, and our house, and within this dream, the two of us were in the basement and for whatever reason, he shot a gun through a window in a room that doesn't exist. Although the fact that this made-up room had no place in my home didn't occur to me in the dream, the fact that it was dark outside did occur to me, since I knew that my landlord was outside mowing grass. I immediately realized I was dreaming and tried to shout out "I'm dreaming, I'm Dreaming!!!!" I found it very difficult to make any sound, but eventually succeeded and was able to yell out. Once I became lucid, I had the sense that I was floating next to my bed, although there was no visual, only audio. I can't describe what the sound was, but I definitely had a sense that there was some sort of sound in the background. A struggled to "open my eyes" to confirm that I was, in fact, floating next to my bed. As soon as I was able to see, I immediately awoke. I jumped up and jotted this in my dream journal.

      As exciting as this was, I didn't see it as a huge breakthrough. What happened to me last night, however, was truly incredible.

      I was lying in bed, again watching TV, about to fall asleep. I had been out on my couch with my girlfriend watching a movie, and had fallen asleep and woken up a few times. My roommate came home from the bar and had company, so the two of us went to bed. I watched TV for about an hour and turned it off to go to sleep. For some reason, the idea of inducing a LD occurred to me, and I turned over on my stomach and lid there thinking about it.

      Mind you, I am no expert on WILDs (if I am using the correct terminoligy here,) or on LDs in general. I just remembered reading about trying to stay awake while concentrating on becoming lucid, so that is exactly what I did.At some point, I began concentrating on bringing up images, and soon it began. I began to feel this intense buzzing in my head and as it began, the images began. At first it was random faces, and they were only partially visible. I began to concentrate on bring up specific people, which proved to be impossible. I tried concentrating on my girlfriend, my ex-girlfriend, my other ex-girlfriend... I kept awakening, but was able to immediately repeat what I had done before and eventually decided to just try to make anything appear, which I was then successful at. Random women kept appearing to me, so I decided these random women should go ahead and be naked as well, which a couple of them were. After a couple of the random women appeared, I awoke with sleep paralysis, which for the first time didn't completely freak me out. I remembered reading that awakening with SP can allow you to immediately regain lucidity, I concentrated on doing just that. Suddenly, I felt a very uneasy presence in the room. As soon as this sense came over me, I felt as though something grabbed my leg. This feeling was so unnerving that it gave a me a chill just to recall it as I write this. Moments later, however, I was asleep and dreaming. I found myself in a big, rustic, old-west style building. Before me was a large set of stairs, and it immediately occurred to me to do reality check, so I decided to go ahead and try to fly up the stairs instead of climbing them. I have done this many times while awake since reading LaBerge's book, and of course, it never works. This time, however, I took to the air! It was easily the most amazing thing that has ever happened in my life. (chills again) I soon found myself reaching the beams around the ceiling and began to get scared of the impact, but then I remembered that it was just a dream, and that I would just fly right through it, which I quite easily did. After flying through the roof, I was then sort of hovering over the front of the building, looking down upon the street. It was a nice cool evening, and I could see the reflection of moon in the water just beyond the street and down a cliff. I flew down and dove into the water. At this point I think I lost some of my lucidity, however I do remember flying back out of the water and up into the clouds.

      I don't remember if I awoke at this point or not, but I have a sense that I had another lucid moment at some point again during the night, because I remember, vaguely that in perhaps a dream, that I either pinched or poked myself, and was amazed at the sensation of pain, even though I was dreaming.

      I'm pretty sure that the sequence of these events has gotten mixed up a bit, due in part to the fact that every time I woke up during this eventful night, I didn't want to get up and write in my dream journal, fearing I would lose an opportunity at lucidity.

      Needless to say, I can't wait to get back to bed, to see what tonight brings me. I did write all this down in my journal this morning when I got up, but I had to share this with someone who wouldn't look at me like I had to heads.

      Thank you, Mike

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      Wow, good job! I'm still working on controlling my dreams once I become lucid. I usually wake up as soon as I realize I'm dreaming.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Mike7758 View Post
      I did write all this down in my journal this morning when I got up, but I had to share this with someone who wouldn't look at me like I had to heads.
      Well you came to the right place.. We actually embrace people with two heads here!

      Seriously, thanks for sharing your dream (you had great control)!

      Oh, and welcome to Dream Views!!

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