I had my first lucid experience today thanks to this thread. In my dream, I was in front of a little indentation in a large building. In front of me a downtown street, behind me windows that appeared to be in front of a dress shop. I was trying to teleport behind a tall Roman style column ahead of me, so this reporter woman coming around the corner wouldn't spot me. I instead teleported into a small square white room with a mirror on my right, and an outward rectangular protrusion in the wall on my left that created two spaces to stand in on either side. I suddenly realized in my head I might be dreaming, so I counted the fingers on my left hand. To my surprise, I had none until I started counting them. They appeared and disappeared one at a time, like ghost fingers coming up from behind my hand... Five of course, but I knew by the way they were behaving that I was dreaming. Then I tried looking in the mirror, but realized I could barely move. Then I remembered that looking in mirrors in dream world can be scary. I was suddenly on the wall east of me. The mirror was on the floor. I heard some radio music and thought it was my alarm clock, and my dad might shut it off and I would be late for school. I tried ignoring that, for a good reason. I was back on the original wall where I started, and the mirror was still on the floor to my left. I tried visualizing stuff, but nothing really happened. I was mostly in shock that I was lucid dreaming, and then I woke up. The noise went from blaring radio alarm music to silence. It was 6:52pm and I'm 20, not living with my dad anymore. The mirror on the floor became the mirror on the wall in my room, and stayed in the same spot in my line of sight as I woke up. I'm guessing it's because I was still dreaming as I had my eyes slightly open. Anyways, I tried falling back to sleep, to no avail. Then I wrote my dream details down. It should be noted that I've counted my fingers daily and counted them before falling asleep (with my eyes closed). I also noted that in my dream, the nails on my left hand were longer than my right, yet in real life my right hand nails are not close cut because I'm growing them for guitar playing. Anyways, what a freaky experience. I woke up and counted my fingers to make sure I was actually awake, and I was, of course.

This post was edited by Zellers on Sep 8 2011 06:36pm

What kind of disturbing images can you see?!

Wow man sounds like you had a great first lucid dream experience! May this be the first of many. Sounds like you were in a bit of shock when you realized you were dreaming and when you were having the mirror hassle haha. Understand that its perfectly natural and that your safe. Take in a big death breathe in your dream world and accept it. Once you accept it you will be free. Because your mind keeps you in a constant state of "reality" when you are dreaming, telling you whats real and whats not. The problem is when you realize your lucid dreaming, your brain doesn't want you to know it, so you will end up becoming extremely anxious and confused in the dream world. Remember to hold on to something tight to keep lucidity if you feel you are losing it. And Spin in a circle as well.

I think I had this lucid experience a month back although I'm not 100% certain. I went to bed, in reality, and woke up probably at 5 o'clock so then it took me about 15 minutes before I went back to sleep. Whereupon had a dream that i was in the exact same bed and then i fell asleep in that dream when i was getting out of that bed and walking over to the kitchen. I woke up from that, still in my dream and started to think to myself "is this real or am i dreaming" then i looked at my alarm clock which said the time was 4 something in the morning. Where I promptly woke up in reality.
So the process was like
I went to sleep
Had a dream
Had a dream inside that dream
Woke up from the dream inside my dream
Woke up from my dream and into reality
At first I couldn't get the grip on it, it was so weird. Thanks for the thread, I'll be practicing these techniques and methods over the next couple of months you've done a beautiful job.

Inception lol but have had that happen before it is a strange feeling

Well, I wouldn't want to see lucid dreams every night.

I'd rather keep it random. Just had one last night, it's interesting how real yet truth-defying stuff is.

For me a lucid dream is one where I perform reality checks and decide what I want to do. Last night I even woke up and tried to fall asleep so I could continue what was unfinished in the dream (due to waking up)^^ I ended up getting distracted -,-

This post was edited by Holod on Sep 18 2011 07:39am

For me all my dreams are lucid, im free to do whatever i want to and they feel just as real as anything else. the only thing wich tells me its a dream is that physical objects and space does not hold together the same way. for example i walk through a door and i want to go back into the room i came from turning around and going through the same doorway will most likely NOT lead me back to the room i came from.

Well ok not all dreams are lucid but all dreams i remember are lucid. since i have dreamt this way since i was around 4-5 years old im not much fascinated by my dreams.

i will practice a lot cause wanna dream that hottie from resident evil apocalypse ^^

but i do love the idea of making a guide for this

reeeeeeeow, she's le sex.