My 2nd Crappy Lucid - Just can't stop waking!!

I have been trying for lucids for about one month now. Admittedly, the last week and a half i have not been trying very hard. New boyfriend = hard for me to concentrate on a damn thing. I haven't been keeping my dream journal as i should. However, i did purchase the lucid dreamer by malcolm godwin (fantastic book, btw, if you haven't heard) and read a couple chapters over the past few days.

Anyway, i had a hilarious non lucid in which i actually woke myself up laughing and thought, i shall have to write this down so i don't forget. I grabbed my dream journal, jotted it down, drank a pepsi and went back to sleep. The next dream i had was my second lucid.

I am watching "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" but not on the tele. I am actually sitting on the set, on a couch, directly across from the actors. Will Smith is sitting on the couch next to a chubby girl in a white sweat shirt of the eighties/early nineties variety. He says to her, "I need to remember this is a dream."

She now has a large piece of paper in her hand that i recognize as a map. She puts it into Will's lap and says, "You could be dreaming right now. What kind of a dream is this?" He looks at her in disbelief and then down at the map in his lap. "Wait a minute," he says, "This is a dream!"

At that moment it dawns on me that I, too, am dreaming. "Yeah! It is a dream!" i say. I start to get that weird, excited, tingly feeling that also accompanied my first lucid and i know i am losing it. I remember what clarity said on the forums about my first lucid so i start to vigorously rub my hands on the couch. I feel it clearly but i am still too excited and i immediately wake up, my heart racing.

It's frustrating that i can't keep control. I thought my second time would be less exciting when the realization of dreaming came but alas, it was not. :) At least this time i had the sense to TRY to stay in the dream but without success.

I am extremely surprised at how quickly i had a lucid after starting my dream journal again and i think i inadvertently performed the WBTB technique which has been the only thing to work for me so far. Ah, anyway, just thought i'd share and beg some encouragement from you all. heh.

Same thing happened to me after two botched WILDs of getting chocked, stunned, crushed and scared I lucid :D

So when I do I am in the hallway and some teacher yells at me to sit down in the hallway...I'm like "What that hell?! :? " and all the sudden appears some wet rug...Then I look at him to complain and back at the rug and its dry! Im like..impossible so I go to run and get a weapon from Dream-Depot and I wake up...he is going to get mangled tonight tho :P

You just are getting excited because lucid dreaming is brand new to you. Once the act of becoming lucid itself becomes mundane then you'll be able to stay in the dream.

I know you're right but man, i hate the fact that i could've had an awesome experience but i always wake myself up. Ugh. Well, i'll just have to keep at it. :)

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Originally Posted by Willowsidhe

Well, i'll just have to keep at it. :)

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Yep.. with lucid dreaming.. practice makes "better". ;)

ninja is correct in that your lucids will get better once you've had a few more and aren't overcome with excitement at their onset.

This happened to me a lot too before I encounted this website. Dreamviews suggested something that took my lucid dreaming far to the next level. It is called dream spinning. It simple, but very very effective. As a matter of fact, anytime during your lucid dream you feel like you're about to wake up, dream spinning will usually work to keep you asleep.

After you begin your lucid dream, just start spinning around in your lucid dream. I don't know why exactly it works, but believe me it does. I think it's just the calming sensation of the spinning that helps me stay in my lucid dream. Before I learned about dream spinning, it was the excitement that would wake me up. It'd make my heart beat fast and I'd wake up.

I read somewhere (I think in Dreamviews) that dream spinning works for something like 9 out of 10 lucid dreamers. Anyway, try it, it may help. Let me know how it goes, and have fun lucid dreaming!

Here is the section on dreamviews about dream spinning:

http://www.dreamviews.com/stayinglucid.php

Before I learned of dream spinning, my lucids were very short and I could only control myself and do things like fly, and well basically that's it. After I learned this technique, almost immediately, my level of control of my dreams increased so much that i was able to totally manipulate my environment. Last night, I was a god flying through the universe in the guise of Voltron. No joke.

Haha. Voltron, eh? Thanks for the info. I hope I can remember this the next time i become lucid. I'll post and let you know how it goes! Thanks again!