Finally! What a ride...

[skoal]

Well I guess this is going to be my first post of many on the forums. After always taking interest but never pursuing the techniques I decided to give it a full attempt. The night before the dream itself was rough, I was having major problems getting to sleep, I'm pretty sure it was 8-9am when I finally slipped away from insomnia's grasp. I'm now starting to vividly recall normal dreams, involving dog fights and the area around my house. During the course of it I realized that I was dreaming, the idea of lucidity was deeming in my mind from hours before on the site in my insomniac state. I tried the first thing anyone does in this situation, I started to fly. This was a short few seconds, as when I landed it seems I lost control of the dream. When I reached the ground I could feel pressure surround me, as I was walking about, getting heavier with each step. Almost as if my body itself was falling with each step, I became worried thinking that what if I was actually moving my body in the outside world and I was falling down over things and couldn't get up. These thoughts scared me, as now awaken I know it would be pretty much impossible. I tried to shake my self back awake however was having problems, I began to say something over and over to wake myself up and let anyone watching on the outside that I was dreaming. Then bam I was awaken still mouthing what I was yelling, my head facing the left of the wall, I thought it was over but it wasn't I still had to meet a friend called false awakening. When my eyes opened, my mind was still racing at the actually fact that I reached lucidity, I knew I had to write this down, record what just happened... anything but forget it. How ever, I'll just close my eyes for one second.. That's when it hit before I knew it that one second showed me I was still dreaming, I started thinking of the website and the terms from earlier. When I tried to open my eyes, nothing. It was almost as a huge struggle. This cat and mouse game occurred I believe four more times before I just got up and started to make this post. Defiantly learned a lot about how to make my next experience even better and prevent the looping of FA and the worrisome subconscious. Now time for some breakfast

[Clairity]

Congratulations!! As you said, now that you know that lucid dreaming is possible, may your next experience be even better! .