My first lucid =]]

Yay, so I just had my first lucid the other night. Well, not really at night. I wake up at 5:00 am to get ready for school, so I get up shower, brush teeth, hair ,etc. Then I'm a bit tired so I go back to bed. That is when I had my lucid dreams. And according to wikipedia, doing something like "Wake-back-to-bed" is quite successful. Lucky me, right?

It was sort of accidental at best. I have been reading Stephen LaBerge's book on lucid dreaming and in it he talked about the WILD Technique. I thought it was interesting, so I did the thing where I counted to one hundred like: 1, I'm dreaming. 2, I'm dreaming, etc. I made sure that every time I blew out, I said I'm dreaming. I hoped to sort of link the action with the words so that maybe I said I'm Dreaming in an actual dream just because of the repetition or the action (blowing out). And it worked! Twice it one night actually. It was low level, but a great first step for me.

During that I also tried paying attention to the shapes in my "mind's eye" and see where that went, but at best it helped me get to sleep, which is a good thing.

My third lucid dream, my best so far, was sort of funny. It actually spawned from a false awakening which I thought was funny. But here it is:

I "woke up" and looked at my clock. It said 7:20, and I thought, "shit, I'm going to be late for school.". So I quick try to find some clothes (only a few of which I have in real life, lol) and before I know it I'm in a car on my way, and then tada in my classroom. I just sort of chill there until I notice butter on the desk next to me. That's right. Butter. I thought, "Why the hell would butter be on a desk...I might be dreaming.". Of course, I blew the dreaming idea out the window. Until, that is, I saw a newspaper on the next desk and I decided, "Well I should just do a state test". It scared the shit out of me. I read a headline, and read it again. Of course it's different, but it still scared me because I JUST realized I was dreaming. I try to take of control over the dream, but it is fairly mid-level I guess (Better than the previous two that night).

With my lack of lucidity and practice the dream was soon lost, but it was amazing.

batman, congratulations on your lucid dreams and in noticing the "oddities" that cause you to realize that you were dreaming!

May your lucids only get better! :D

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:banana:Gratz on you first lucid dream:banana: