Any tips on how to improve?

[Chimerical]

So I guess I will start by explaining my first experience of Lucidity from last night: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -I set an alarm for 4.30am, placing my iphone under my pillow with my favourite little alarm tone which almost silently wakes me up. The time comes and I awoke as I have tried before, realised I had a few Jelly Babies by my bed, so ate about 2. Went to empty my bladder and read some technique advice on here for about 15 minutes. In total it was 20 minutes of me being awake, following this I had 1 more Jelly Baby and got into position. I did some stretches which make me feel relaxed and yawn. Then rolling over I got into a more comfortable position and focused on my breathing. After a very short time I felt on edge of being asleep, but I continued to focus on my breathing and just as I felt it was failing and I was about to doze off. The sound started, what I can only describe as the feeling of a loud high pitched sound ripping through my brain. I was immediately scared and my body felt naked and so I calmed myself down. I somehow managed to peek out my eye to check and all was fine, although I immediately started to lose focus and diverted my attention back to the noise. I managed to start to form a dream, although it became something I didn't want to head towards from the show episode I was watching last night (Prison Break). I tried to create a new scenario to no avail, so instead I imagined a corridor in the clouds with me hovering over it, with many doors below leading to different dream possibilities. I focused on it for a few seconds before getting ahead of myself and flying down into it and through the first door. I then fell downwards and re-appeared in an apartment with a girl lying on her bed talking. I did a quick reality check and that's where the dream started to fall apart. I walked towards a ginger girl and I noticed how it was more like an old pc game than reality but as I reached her it fell apart and the apartment faded back into this cloudy limbo type place. Thats where I woke up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Well it felt amazing, I'm not sure if it qualifies as a lucid dream, or it was more of a hallucination. Either way I was proud of my achievement. I think I needed to be more relaxed and take things slower, allow the dream to form regardless and try to alter it following that. I was just looking for any advice and suggestions as to how I may be able to improve now I have tackled the first hurdle of the first dream. (Maybe even those Jelly Babies helped me!) Thanks, Chimerical

[Scionox]

Yo and congrats on first lucid dream! You were aware that you are in dream and that's enough to qualify it as lucid dream. Having first lucid dream short is fairly common, though you might want to look for dream stabilization techniques to prolong the lucid dream, do them at the start(after RC) and whenever you feel that dream becomes less stable than you want to: Dream Stabilization and Clarity Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views I personally suggest the 'feeling dream with all senses one' and 'rubbing hands' ones.

[gab]

Nice experience! You did well. Now you just need to do it again If you have not read this WILD (sageous) tutorial, I can recommend it. It explains the whole process in great detail. You were doing great, but it never hurts to know more. And in case you get a chance to enter WILD via different avenue (not visuals), here is an article about that. Sensations, HH and types of entry into WILD. Happy dreams

[Chimerical]

Thanks for those tips, I made sure to read them before last night! I ended up trying to WILD a lot later today. It must have been about 6 1/2-7 hours since I fell asleep. I didn't get any noise, nor felt as relaxed. However I did managed to get into a very weak WILD and stabilise it a few times after popping in and out. Somehow focusing on my own hands threw me off, but I managed to focus on other objects which helped. I think had this been earlier in the night it would have been much more successful. I'll try again tomorrow!