Thread: First Three Lucid Dreams (three week timespan)

Wow, so I've been slacking off on posting in here for a while, but I'm glad to be able to post all three of these dreams at once.

First:

My first was after sleeping for over ten hours. I woke up, and began reading the seventh Harry Potter book (a day after it came out). I'd been reading for about an hour, and all of a sudden had a RIDICULOUS urge to sleep. I put down the book, and laid my head down. Almost immediately, I fell into a exercise room in which yoga was being done. I wasn't participating, only watching. Strangely, I was the only male in the room, and everyone was doing yoga topless (I know.) All of a sudden, I know I was dreaming. I chanted it to myself over and over, and looked at my hand, which looked completely normal, actually. The world was extremely blurry in a familiar way, and all of a sudden I realized that only my left eye was open.

(In real life, my left eye has a retinal fold that make vision blurry but discernible. I can see everything going on, but everything lacks detail. It looked exactly the same in my dream. I've also always had reason to believe that my left eye was a channel to psychic sight (hate to bring my beliefs into this, but it's necessary.))

Anyhow, I looked at myself in the window of a building, and began to dance. For some reason, I remembered reading somewhere about dancing while floating in the air. I slowly began floating until I was dancing on a cushion of air at least two feet above the ground. I then landed and began to slowly flap my arms. I rose into the air slowly and calmly. However, I felt extremely sluggish and weighed down. I started to worry that what I was feeling was my hands moving on the bend in real life, and at that point, I woke up.

Second:

My second was after a fairly late night in which I deliriously told myself I'd have a lucid dream, with no real intention behind it. I rested for a while with no sleep, and am fairly sure I didn't have the lucid until the third or fourth dream of the night. Anyhow, I was eating at the Rainforest Cafe with my family, and we were there for about half an hour. The whole time I seemed to realize I was dreaming, but didn't embrace it until a bit later in the dream. Well, I decided to leave, and go back to my house in San Francisco (I live in Texas now.). I didn't feel the need to look at my hand, but I said to myself that I should always take advantage of lucid dreams, and fly at least a little bit in each of them. I began running forward, flapping and flailing my arms maniacally. Nothing happened, and I realized I was putting too much physical effort into it. I slowly, calmly waved my arms, and they felt as if pillows of air were forming under my arms as I slowly glided forward over the dining table. It felt extremely real. I woke up moments later.

Third:

About five days ago I had my third lucid dream. I was simply walking through a sandy desert, with an obscure canvas tent nearby. I immediately knew I was dreaming, so I repeated to myself, lucid dream, lucid dream, lucid dream, over and over. I stopped, felt myself slipping out of lucidity, and looked at my hand. Once again, it looked completely normal other than the blur and unclarity of my left eye. I was worried that maybe I can only LD with my right eye closed. However, I decided I needed to find out for certain. I opened my right eye, and it was amazing. All detail had come back to the world, everything was more clear and real than it seems in real life. I looked at my hand and I could see every line and wrinkle as all five fingers shrunk into little stubs 1/3rd of the size. I simply marveled at the extraordinary feeling of seeing so clear and having such a reality while out of my body. It was short lived, however, as after about ten seconds of this amazing clarity, an obstruction became apparent. My right eyelid was slowly forcing itself shut, and once again my vision started to fade into the surreal blur I experience so often. I grabbed my eyelids and wrenched them open, forgetting the advice once given around these forums that said to only do that if you want to wake up. I could once again see very clearly, but the eye closed once again, very quickly. I attempted to wrench them open once again, but a very monumental, memorable thing occurred at that moment. As my eye in the dream opened, my eyes in waking life opened with it. As it opened, I saw my dream eyelids overlapping my real eyelids, and once they were entirely open, the dream eyelids had faded.

I'm really glad I've had so many amazing lucid dreams in such a short period of time. Now all I have to do is make sense of the whole left eye thing, as the clarity I had with my right eye was what made it. Perhaps I should try to will my left eye to see with such reality. Everything else is being manifested by myself, after all.

I'd also like to take a moment to thank all of you on these boards. Merely reading these posts every day, and being inspired to keep a dream journal, as well as attempting various LD methods every once in a while...I really think that's what allowed my to come to this place. I no longer use specific methods, only intentions, but that seems enough, for the time being.

Thanks,

Michael