First Ld! Questions

So last night I had my first lucid dream (:banana:)
It was great, I took a look at my hands, became lucid and began walking around.
I was in my house, but some things were destorted, the whole time I kept thinking "I did it! I'm really having a lucid dream!"
I suprisingly didn't wake up from the excitment so I proceeded out side.

On my street I tried to fly, but everytime I jumped, I just came back down.
This was strange that I couldnt do it.
It occurred to me that I might have to do a sort of superman dive forward to get things going, but I was afrade I would hurt myself, (that thought went away after I remembered that I was dreaming)

There was still some doubt in my mind so I tried scuffing the ground with my nuckle, which produced a strange sensation like a very dull pain.
I ingnored it and tried the superman dive only to fall on my chest.
I gave up thinking I must not be experenced enough yet (being my first Ld)
Do you think this is the case or was I just not going about it the right way?

So then I went back inside, did some stuff and ended up waking up (in real life)

Here is where it gets strange, as I woke up, I felt absoultly no different from when I was dreaming, almost as if my waking self had just done all that. (Which in retrospect makes sense because I was awake in the dream)

After about 5 minutes of remembering my experence and writing it down, my memory of the dream became strange.
Suddenly my memory of what I had just felt was a conscious lucid dream became like a normal dream, and that everything that had just happened was really just a coincidence. (or my dream simply gave me the illusion that I was in control)


I feel confident that what I had was a real lucid dream, but there is still a nagging feeling.

Is this normal? Am I just doubting myself as an inexperenced lucid dreamer?
or is what happened very well a complex illusion of a lucid dream?:?

If anyone can relate or offer some advice, comments ect please do!:bowdown:

I'm still new to this, but I've been reading these forums every day, so I know now that what you experienced was pretty darn normal. With me, after my first 2 lucid dreams, when I woke up, they just seemed like regular dreams to me. However when I was in them, I was lucid. It's normal. :)

The same thing happened to me, i woke up after wards and wrote down what happened but then went "Wait, did i actually control it?"
Maybe it's because you're only used to experiencing non-lucid dreams when you have your first lucid dream so it just feels like a normal one.

Maybe it's because you're only used to experiencing non-lucid dreams when you have your first lucid dream so it just feels like a normal one.

That makes sense.
Thanks!

Hi Skype Goat.

Yeah its normal. Its easy after the event to think about it a lot from outside as though it was a normal dream and then you begin to think it wasn't lucid. Some are much more vivid than others and the real test is to set yourself a task for next time and then you'll know. Like i dunno say to yourself now, I'll clap my hands three times in a row next time i'm lucid. When you do it'll prove to yourself that you are.

As for the flying thing, its hard to just fly. Try and float first. Just stand there and float. Once you're off the ground you'll find it much easier to jet off into the clouds.

Or you could go for the suicide approach and jump of something high. The problem with that is you have to get up there and if you're new to lucid dreaming its difficult to tell yourself you can just appear on the top of a building. Your mind won't allow it in the same way it won't allow you to fly. Hence why floating is sometimes easier.

Once you float you'll tell you mind this is possible. I kind of had the advantage since i skydive as a hobby and my mind is already conditioned to falling through cloud and stuff.

Hope that helps and isn't too babbling :)

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Hi Skype Goat.~~
Hope that helps and isn't too babbling :)

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No! Thank you very much for you advice I really appreciate it.:D
I'll have to try that next time.(clapping hands ect.)

So then I went back inside, did some stuff and ended up waking up (in real life)


you might of had a FA, but you said you wrote it down in your DJ.. is it there now?

Yes it is, thats the strange part.

It's always the case. My theory is that after a small amount of time passes, the memory of the dream is converted to long term, making it fuzzy. You can still remember the clarity though, and that is wierd. If anyone doesn't get me, I'll use video games as an analogy. In Scarface: The World Is Yours, you have dirty cash and clean cash. The dirty cash is kept on you, but you lose it if you die or a scripted sequence says so. Clean cash is always safe, but it costs a little bit to keep it safe. I think that this is the case with memory. You keep short term vivid and clear, but then to keep ANY of that memory safe, it is converted into long term, thus costing a little bit of vividness and clarity, and raising doubts about it.

Yes, I know exactly how you feel. Almost like you had imagined some of it while you where dreaming? Or maybe you had just dreamed about being lucid and that was it?

First issue out of the way, 'control.' The late BillyBob can explain it much better than I. Here you go, give this a read through. http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=57283

On the more prevalent topic at hand, I would say that you where certainly lucid. But you weren't 'highy lucid' so to say.

The high level of awareness will mean that not only do you know and understand that you're dreaming, but you comprehend all of the implications about dreamong as well as can clearly remember memories that your waking self had. Not just general techniques, but specific memories like goals and such.

I don't think you had reached that high level, so your dreaming self was lucid but still somewhat confused. That left you feeling a little lacking about your LD.

But the biggest explanation to why it felt like a normal dream is that it had that particular 'dreamy' quality about it. Despite being aware, you still had that sub-conciouss whispy feeling. (Know what I mean?)

Sometime, you will have an LD that feels so fantastically real that you never want a non-vivid LD again. Everything will feel as real as it does now, in some cases things will have more depth to them. The dreamy feeling will be entirly absent so you won't relate it to a non-lucid or regular dream upon waking.

If you want to try and achieve that, step one is to get sensory feeling. Try and get your body to relate to it's sense memories form waking life, hmm?
So just take your hand and run it over a table or a pole. Try and remember what it feels like. Then, don't try and feel it just FEEL it.

That may get your senses up and kicking and even if it doesn't dispel that dreamy feeling you should be able to recall that 'feeling' and thus relate that feeling to your dream rather than relate that dreamy feeling. Then you should be able to be confident about your lucid being real.