First off, hello! I’m new here and decided to jump on this bandwagon. Lucid dreaming is quite literally the ultimate “me” time, so as a teen in the summer with nothing to do, why not learn it?
Anyway, going back to the thread, I say “experience” because this wasn’t a dream, as best as I can understand. I’ve been spending the last day or two eating up as much knowledge as a could. Last night was the first time I actually tried (that morning I got a false start due to pulling an all-nighter, ironically). This is my first real entry in my dream journal [annotated after writing the whole thing down]. My true first entry was just me writing down that I didn’t dream (I know that I technically did, you just remember absolutely zero of such dreams).
Thurs. 7/28/11 5:43 AM (Making Progress) [These are annotations outside the journal itself.]
Was it a dream? I may have come close to a WILD. My arms sort of slowly moved involuntarily. The rest of my body started shaking (sometimes with my influence, sometimes not). I could not focus on a single visualization for too long [my ADD, maybe?]. Started out well with the mantra but as I sort of went from a MILD to a WILD (it just happened), I kept forgetting to say the mantra near the end [this is what I attribute to my false start]. I came close, though; I got to the hallucinations. They (monsters of some kind [they kind of looked like they were from an old Disney movie, but I haven’t seen too many of those]) sort of instinctually drove me off, unfortunately. All this time I initially shot for a Tron dream (best as I could), but I ultimately just went with flying. I snuck in some reality checks [just the nose] and passed, though. Still, I’m surprised as how close I came [for my first time]. (The other day’s false start doesn’t count.) I don’t remember anything of the dream itself, though. I did notice an improved heart rate and some imagined feelings [I don’t remember what said feelings were anymore], but no increased breathing or sweating [and no imagined sounds]. Now going to try again. [Remember, I woke up at 5:43 and wrote this all down. It all took place over around 45 minutes after midnight.]
Thurs. 7/28/11 12:12 PM (Nada)
Nothing again. Damn it. [I just could not focus on the mantra or visualization after going to bed after writing the previous entry. This was an accidental shot at an ABTB; I do not plan on intentionally going for these. By the way, I took melatonin the night before.]
What do you think? Am I as close as I think I am? Is there a way you think I could best progress or try out? Etc, etc.