First DILD!

[Rickrold]

I have had one (strange) lucid before but last night I had my first DILD! Here's an excerpt from my DJ: The first part of dream or connected series of dreams if fuzzy. I remember one scene in a car with one of my recurring DC's. I also remember a vague sequence where someone played a bizarre prank on me while I was sleeping - he painted me green and red. Also distributed trough this time were weird cameos of Trinity and Morpheus from The Matrix. Then I found myself walking up the driveway of a local park. i think I was with some friends. Something didn't seem right. I was also wondering if I had really been painted green and red. I began to be suspicious of reality and I looked at my hands. First I looked at my left hand. It seemed basically normal but something was off. Then I looked at my right had. One of the fingers was a triangular stump and the others seemed jumbled up somehow. I realized I was dreaming! I tried not to be too excited and set about stabilizing the dream. I rubbed my hands together and started to spin around. Then I remembered that you are supposed to look at you hands and I tried to analyze all the detail of my fingerprints, but the dream was starting to fade. I started to panic. The dream faded and I tried to spin around in the blackness. I think it started to come back for a second but then it went away. I decided toggle up and I opened my eyes. By the way, can I get some pointers on the following subjects: stabilization and making objects appear?

[Hukif]

Oh, congratulations on your first DILD! And for stabilization, panicking is what got you I think, spinning doesn't always work either, because for some people it just gets them more disoriented, not to mention if you pay too much attention to the details, the dream around you might fade due to lack of attention, so be careful with that until you are accustomed to it. Making objects appear is easier, you can just expect them to be somewhere and then go over there, grab them and start playing.

[Rickrold]

Thanks

[Jinairik]

Congrats, dude! I'm around the same stage as you are, but I've had multiple dreams like this and I manage to stay in the dream for a slightly longer period than you. My first dream like this ended the same way yours did, but after I had more and more lucid dreams, I found myself lasting much longer each time. Instead of panicking once you realized you are in a dream, stray your attention away from that state of being excited. Something that works for me is staring at an object and thinking of that object to calm myself down. Once I'm calmed down from the excitement, I continue my dream lucid. I have to work on summoning objects though. :/