Just CAN'T believe I'm dreaming

This morning I had a DILD, but it only lasted for about 3 seconds when I became lucid. I hadn't even fully believed I was lucid until I woke up.

I was outside of my house, walking down the road, and there were about 5 signs on the side of the road saying like 10 different names of community places, all of which weren't anywhere near my place. At this point I thought "this kinda doesn't make any sense" so decided I would try the nose RC.

I could breathe. At this point I STILL didn't really believe I was dreaming, but I started to think about my body and whether it was really in bed and all of a sudden BAM I was awake in bed. Tried DEILD but it failed. ACK!!!!!!!!!!!

Most of your first lucid-dreams will be short. After a few, they'll get longer.

Do 2 reality-checks, as suggested on the frontpage, and you should be fine. Do the nose-rc twice.

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Originally Posted by N2MDJ

This morning I had a DILD, but it only lasted for about 3 seconds when I became lucid. I hadn't even fully believed I was lucid until I woke up.

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Makes ya wanna cry don't it?!

Marvo's advice is true.. very few people have stupendous, glorious, epically long lucid dreams at first.. but they do come in time (and practice).

Oh, and like he said.. always "double up" on the reality checks just to make sure! :D
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