I had a long LD this morning. I’d say it lasted for about 20-30 min in the dream. I was at a school, when i suddenly for no reason at all just looked at my hand and counted my fingers (guess my constant RCs when I’m awake actually is starting to pay off). As I had way too many fingers I realised that I finished school over a year ago, and that I couldn’t remember how I got there. The last thing I did remeber was going to sleep. Hence, it had to be a dream.
In the other LDs I have had I used the spinning and rubbing hands techniques. But I decided to try something different this time, so I just looked down at my feets and focused hard on the floor around them (I read this on this webpage somewhere). When the floor was clear and detailed I looked around me to see how “real” my surroundings was. I rember thinking that it was just like real life.
When using the other methods I had to repeat them often to keep the dream from fading, and I lost it after very short time. This time the dream stayed clear til I woke up much later. I tried to do different things once I was lucid, and in the beginning I was constantly trying to calm myself down as I was pretty exited. First I tried flying, which I have done before, but this time it didn’t work quite well. I hit my head in the floor, and although it didn’t hurt, I still felt my head hitting it (strange feeling).
Then I tried to make persons and things appear by expecting them behind doors I was about to open. I had no luck with this. So I just started to explore the area and went from class to class and disturbed the teaching. After I had been to several classes and said and did different things to people, two “agents” came to take me from the school since I was disturbing too much. But then I managed to sumon a gun in one of my hands and a knife in my other. So I shot one of them, and stabbed the other one twice in his back with the knife (I’m actually a very nice and non-violent person in real life, but when people tries to fuck with me when I’m lucid, I get angry). At the end I woke up because I got way too exited at one point. But having a LD this long was extremely satisfying.
My main problem seem to be that I lack control once I get lucid, but with more training and more Yoda thinking (“do or do not, there is no try”), I’m sure I will get control soon enough.
But anyway, I think the first thing you need to do is calm yourself down. If you get too over excited and don’t manage to suppress that feeling, then you will wake up right away (I have had many dreams where this have happened, but I don’t count them as LDs). Once you are calm, either use the spinning technique or “stare at the floor” technique. I’m deffinently going to experriment with the last one much more.
I really don’t know if this have anything to say, but I had been drinking a lot of alcohol last night, and was still influenced by that when I was having this LD.
now that that is out of way…
