first lucid dream in months!!!

[jareemon]

hey after joining this site i decided to get back into lds. have had about 4 in my life, around a year ago or longer. but last night, i woke up at possibly 5am from a non lucid dream (cant remember wat it was about.) and then i thought hey ill try inducing a ld. so i closed my eyes again and relaxed and thought about wat i had been dreaming about for about 3 seconds then almost immediatly became lucid!! i was like whoa that was fast!! so everything was black in my head but i was lucid nonetheless. so im like... ok now what... so i open my eyes and i see the ceiling of my room, i dont know if it really was or not my my eyes were not easy to open or keep open... so i closed them. blackness. i tried teleporting or whatever but i guess i wasnt focussed enough on any one thing to visualise maybe. any ideas or tips on what to do when lucid but in blackness? anyways after that i think i just lay there in lucidity, a little bored cos couldnt do anything, then woke up after maybe 30secs. so it wasnt a dream but i was lucid, and althought nothing happened i was pretty stoked about the whole thing like how fast i became lucid when i closed my eyes! Jared

[juroara]

grats on getting back into the swing of things when ever I get back into lucid dreaming, I first take things slowly. teleporting can be pretty advanced stuff. Stabilizing is important! I would first explore the dream as lucid. Increase clarity. And if you haven't woken up by then, then move onto 'dream powers'.

[jareemon]

ok, but what about the blackness issue? should i just try again next time or..?

[tranquilitybytrey]

Try saying light outloud in your dream. It seems crazy but it works! Doing this technique multiple times will increase the brightness even more. From my last dream, I experienced a maximum brightness the technique aloud me in the dream. It was plenty to see everything but nowhere near complete white, so it seems you can't over do it either. I hope this helps.