First Intentional Lucid Dream Experience

[Lemongrass00]

Hello all, I am very excited to say I had my first intentional Lucid dream last night after about a week and a half of using the methods found in Beyond Dreaming by Gene Hart. I have had one or two previously on accident but this was the first time I had one as a result of intentionally using my will to become conscious in a dream.

The dream itself was going how most dreams go, fairly non-sensical but you feel that you are doing an important task and failing to realize certain absurdities. In the middle of this, my dream self looked at a piece of paper that someone next to me had written and I started intensely focusing on the words, noticing that they were hazy, slightly moving like a fog and I couldn't quite make it out. Instantly I realized I was in a dream and performed a number of reality checks to insure that I was indeed dreaming.

The next part was a little frightening, I closed my eyes in my dream and started focusing on how the world I was in was not real but was a dream, then I feel a massive rumbling as if an earth quake is happening, and I see bright flashes of lights and vivid colors swirling all around me and I start to feel a pull upwards, and start to feel getting detached from my body. This scared me so I stopped thinking about it and eventually the dream returned to how it was where I just went a long with the dream amused by how absurd everything was.

I want to comfortably try Lucid Dreaming a few more times before attempting to Astral Project, but I was very excited by this progress.

 

[Diluculo_DelFuego]

Hello all, I am very excited to say I had my first intentional Lucid dream last night after about a week and a half of using the methods found in Beyond Dreaming by Gene Hart. I have had one or two previously on accident but this was the first time I had one as a result of intentionally using my will to become conscious in a dream.

The dream itself was going how most dreams go, fairly non-sensical but you feel that you are doing an important task and failing to realize certain absurdities. In the middle of this, my dream self looked at a piece of paper that someone next to me had written and I started intensely focusing on the words, noticing that they were hazy, slightly moving like a fog and I couldn't quite make it out. Instantly I realized I was in a dream and performed a number of reality checks to insure that I was indeed dreaming.

The next part was a little frightening, I closed my eyes in my dream and started focusing on how the world I was in was not real but was a dream, then I feel a massive rumbling as if an earth quake is happening, and I see bright flashes of lights and vivid colors swirling all around me and I start to feel a pull upwards, and start to feel getting detached from my body. This scared me so I stopped thinking about it and eventually the dream returned to how it was where I just went a long with the dream amused by how absurd everything was.

I want to comfortably try Lucid Dreaming a few more times before attempting to Astral Project, but I was very excited by this progress.

Nicely done! Mastery of the dream state and choice to project or not.

 

[Diluculo_DelFuego]

Robert Bruce has a couple good books, Astral Dynamics and one on Astral Projection.

 

[Ancient]

Congrats! It’s such a cool experience once you get the hang of it and have decent dream recall to actually remember your successes.

I find the best thing is to pick a handful of ‘dream goals’, or things that you want to do/see/experience when lucid. Without these I tend to lose lucidity fairly quickly, as I’ll start flying or playing around and get distracted by all the wonderful nonsense.

Robert Bruce really does have good material. I found one of his earliest works a while ago called A Treatise On Astral Projection that was very helpful. I’ll see if I can track it down again for anyone interested.

 

[Incognitus]

I'm a little jealous. I really want to learn this and astral projection. I have lucid dreamed before, but it was never by choice and I had little control (mostly because I don't think I knew what was happening at first).

 

[Lemongrass00]

Congrats! It’s such a cool experience once you get the hang of it and have decent dream recall to actually remember your successes.

I find the best thing is to pick a handful of ‘dream goals’, or things that you want to do/see/experience when lucid. Without these I tend to lose lucidity fairly quickly, as I’ll start flying or playing around and get distracted by all the wonderful nonsense.

Robert Bruce really does have good material. I found one of his earliest works a while ago called A Treatise On Astral Projection that was very helpful. I’ll see if I can track it down again for anyone interested.

I am definitely interested and that is a good idea, I didn’t want to make my initial post too long but I did eventually lose lucidity when my next dream started.

 

[Ancient]

Here’s a link to the book:

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When I get home this evening I’ll start putting together a lucid dreaming guide for those of you who are new to it. It’s so much fun, and takes very little time out of your day to pursue, seeing as how the actual event goes on while you’re catching z’s.

 

[Lemongrass00]

Here’s a link to the book:

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When I get home this evening I’ll start putting together a lucid dreaming guide for those of you who are new to it. It’s so much fun, and takes very little time out of your day to pursue, seeing as how the actual event goes on while you’re catching z’s.

That would be fantastic, I am quite a newbie on the subject and have compiled a list of goals by your advisement. Any other help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Bo Hanson]

Hello all, I am very excited to say I had my first intentional Lucid dream last night after about a week and a half of using the methods found in Beyond Dreaming by Gene Hart. I have had one or two previously on accident but this was the first time I had one as a result of intentionally using my will to become conscious in a dream.

The dream itself was going how most dreams go, fairly non-sensical but you feel that you are doing an important task and failing to realize certain absurdities. In the middle of this, my dream self looked at a piece of paper that someone next to me had written and I started intensely focusing on the words, noticing that they were hazy, slightly moving like a fog and I couldn't quite make it out. Instantly I realized I was in a dream and performed a number of reality checks to insure that I was indeed dreaming.

The next part was a little frightening, I closed my eyes in my dream and started focusing on how the world I was in was not real but was a dream, then I feel a massive rumbling as if an earth quake is happening, and I see bright flashes of lights and vivid colors swirling all around me and I start to feel a pull upwards, and start to feel getting detached from my body. This scared me so I stopped thinking about it and eventually the dream returned to how it was where I just went a long with the dream amused by how absurd everything was.

I want to comfortably try Lucid Dreaming a few more times before attempting to Astral Project, but I was very excited by this progress.

Congratulation to you!