This morning I think I had my first low level lucid dream. Here’s what happened…
Last night, after having read about the Wake Back To Bed method, I went to sleep somewhere between 12:30 and 1:00, after having watched TV in bed. I had set my alarm for 6am, with the idea of trying the Wake Back To Bed method.
In a post that I wrote when I had first woken up, I said about how I had a kind of very brief false awakening just before my alarm went off (for details, see other post).
Anyway, so then I was wide awake, and I decided to go online and visit the Ld4all site and post that message, plus I wrote about it in my diary, plus checked my e-mails and replied to another message on Ld4all.
By the time I had finished doing all this, it was about 10 to 7, so I decided to spend a few minutes looking at the swirly subliminal thing . Then I shut down my computer and went back to bed with earplugs in.
It seamed to take me ages to fall asleep, and I had difficulty in relaxing. Eventually I did fall asleep though, and then that’s when it finally happened.
I became concious that I was dreaming, without any effort at all, although it was only low level. I knew straight away I was dreaming, and I kept saying to myself, “I am dreaming! I am dreaming!”
I felt excited, but there was none of the fear of the unknown like there has been in all my previous weird night time experiences, because I was concious and knew it was all just a dream. The whole thing felt completely calm and natural, although a little bit strange I suppose.
Not much happened really, because I was still kind of concious of the fact that I was in bed. I looked (not physically, but in the dream) at my wall and saw some interesting light patterns on it, like you sometimes get when light comes through your window at night. This would be impossible in real life, as it was not the wall opposite the window, but the wall that the window is on! (I was looking at the bit of wall next to the window, if you know what I mean).
Then I had a few other visual flashes, like I somehow saw my computer monitor behind me, like it was floating next to my bed or something. This was not a prolonged thought though, just a quick flash that passed by before I had any chance to think about it. It wasn’t particularly clear either.
Then I thought to myself (like a complete LD novice) that I should maybe think about sex , but before I could even properely begin to, the dark dream world I had created started to fade away, and I started to become more concious of my physical body and I could feel that my finger was gently touching my face. I tried to fight this and stay lucid (I even remember saying to myself “Increase lucidity by 10 times” several times, but I don’t know at what point in the dream this happened), but it all faded away and I gently woke up, not feeling scared or anxious in any way, not even feeling extremely excited about it either (because nothing much had happened in it), but just feeling a moderate amount of excitement and calm happiness about the fact that I had got yet another step closer.
Can I just get some other opinions on this from more experienced people? Does this sound like I had my first brief low level lucid dream?
So anyway, that seams to be the best way really, for me anyway, to wake up after about 5 or 6 hours sleep, write some messages on the Ld4all site, look at the swirly subliminal thing for a few minutes, then go back to bed with earplugs in and just lie there and think about stuff.
The whole thing occured quite naturally without any real effort, so who knows what I’ll be able to achieve if I do the same method but put loads of effort into reality checks and stuff before I go back to bed. What if I was to do the same thing as I just did, but instead of spending an hour on the computer, what if I dedicate half that time to doing some good quality reality checks? Next time I become concious in my dream, I’d like to be dreaming that I’m doing something other than just lying in my bed looking at funny images in the darkness. I’d like to dream that I’m putting my hand through my bedroom wall or something.
Ed.