Share your first lucid dream, or your funniest!

[elainevdw]

Talking about problems figuring out to fly in lucid dreams in another thread got me wondering about other people's lucid dream stories!

Here's mine:

Lucidity has always been a defense mechanism for me. I first went lucid as a kid in a nightmare where I was being chased by this horribly frightening panther that happened to be dressed up as Weird Al Yankovich. I swear, I was terrified! So I became lucid and decided to have none of that. I morphed myself into a panther dressed up as Weird Al and chased my persuer away. I then lost lucidity and finished off my dream in a less scary manner.

Anybody else want to share their first lucid dream experience? Or a funny one?

[RandomJohn]

My coolest was the one I had last night, detail here: Lucid dreaming, astral projection, out of body experiences, etc.. A close second was one I had a few weeks ago where I realized that I was dreaming, and then tried to interpret the dream as it was happening.

There was one I had as a child where I knew in my dream that my real body had to use the bathroom. I tried to wake up, but would wake into another dream. I would walk out of the room, spot something wrong, get irritated I wasn't "really" awake, go back to bed, and repeat the sequence a few times. I finally woke for real and relieved that I would be able to relieve myself.

[c_arsen]

I was about 6 years old and I too was having a nightmare.

I decided that the only way to get out of the nightmare and wake up was if I saw the big face of a monkey going "ohh ohh ahhh ahhhhhhhhh!!"

It worked, and that's what I did whenever I had a nightmare after that. Although I don't remember when I stopped seeing the monkey..



hahah a monkey!

[Nathan]

My 1st Lucid dream is also a funny one =D

I was in an apartment of some kind being chased by an FBI agent with a gun who turned out to be Condoleeza Rice (lol dont ask me why). Anyway, she chased me down the stairs of this apartment until I reached I dead end which turned out to be a small room with a toilet and a window which I couldn't get out of. Suddenly it came to me that I was dreaming and became lucid so I became invisible and drifted through the wall to see Condoleeza slowly approaching the room which I was in with her gun ready thinking I was still there, but I was right infront of her.

The hell with this, I thought, so I jumped throught the wall and starting flying (I've had flying dreams before where I was aware, but not completely in control and 100% lucid, so i knew what I was doing) and played around with my flying speed trying to go faster then ever before! So fast that it scared me a little =)

So I was pretty excited and getting all arrogant, I wanted to see what position my sleeping body was in. I felt my body and its position in the bed and shortly after that I woke up... happy to have my 1st completely lucid dream!

[Holistic Star]

Having read through about lucid dreaming I now realise I had one 10 years ago (for about 5 seconds). I didn't realise what it was at the time, but it gives me hope that because I have done it once I can do it again.

I was dreaming that I was about to kiss someone. Suddenly my dream slowed down and I heard really slushy violin music playing like in a bad romantic film. I somehow realised I was dreaming, and because it was so bizarre and my dream was so silly I started laughing which woke me up.

It's never happened again - but now I know what it was I would love to do it again.

[valpal215]

Oh, it's so cool that you asked, I had my very first lucid dream a couple of months ago. I try to remember my dreams and think about them, but this is the first time I have been able to influence a dream. It wasn't any kind of huge special dream or anything, but it was just amazing that I could change it.

I was dreaming that I sold the house in the suburbs and moved into a small place in the city. I had a little fenced in yard with a dog - at first the dog was a big yellow lab, but then I realized I was dreaming and STILL IN THE DREAM, I changed the dog to a smaller one, and tried out several different dogs until I got the one I liked. It was just so cool because I'd think about the dog I wanted and it would appear in the dream. I was really having fun with it.

I haven't been able to do it again but I sure would like to.

I'd love to hear about other's experiences!

Val

[dan_popovici]

Reading a bit about lucid dreams, I believe I had one(the first and last one) 5-6 years ago when I was still in high school.
I went to bed being very tired, and as soon as I felt asleep (or maybe a few minutes later) I got up and felt something was strange, i was in a dream but I was aware of my presence, i was not merely an observer. I started walking in the apartament, then I wanted to go through a wall, but didn't succeed, went back to bed, and then I woke up. I felt really good when I woke up, as I realized I had control over that particular dream. Unfortuantely that was the last lucid dream I had.

Dan

[Blueskied]

I was talking to a psychology student one day who told me that in lucid dreams you can summon persons.
I happened to have a lucid dream one night and in it remembered what the student told me. I tried it out and it worked. Strange thing was that the summoned person had black hair whereas in reality the person was blond (yea,yea,it was a woman).

[elainevdw]

Monkeys and Condeleeza with a gun -- priceless!!

Originally Posted by Holistic Star

Having read through about lucid dreaming I now realise I had one 10 years ago (for about 5 seconds). I didn't realise what it was at the time, but it gives me hope that because I have done it once I can do it again.

That's awesome that you were finally able to realize that's what it was!

[Holden McNeil]

Lol! Some of these are hilarious. Good work

I've been having lucid dreams on and off since I was little, so I can't really remember the very first one. But since being educated on lucid dreams, my first "official" one was cool. To me, anyway. Who's ever played first person shooters where someone turns down (or ups?) the gravity, so when you jump you kinda "float", like you're on the moon?

I found I could do that without really trying. I was pretty darn happy I was lucid, shouting at all my friends saying "i'm dreaming!!, haaa!!, i'm dreaming!, wooo!" while bobbing around in midair, rebouding off trees and fences. I then started running up to random people and dancing the tango with them (and i can't dance the tango). I was at my high school at lunchtime, so students were everywhere. Then I saw this girl who I kinda liked, who I admired from afar (oh, to know the Mystery Method back then, LOL), and I started running up to her at this insanely fast speed, then I grabbed her, was about to do the greatest make-out of all time, but then woke up.

[cloud]

So my real first lucid dream was when I was much younger and suffering from falling nightmares. One time I finally had it and decided to land. And I did! I then went on to save a princess and battle a giant octopus.

Many years later (approx. 1.5 years ago), I had my first 'adult' lucid dream. I was in a car with friends, driving around a downtown holding a big bag of weed. We started running into police roadblocks until we got surrounded. I had been thinking about lucid dreaming a lot and realized that I might be dreaming. But I also realized that if I wasn't, I was about to get my ass seriously kicked . But, seeing no alternative, I got out of the car and intended for the cops to disappear. They actually became like cardboard figures that I could knock over. The dream quickly changed, I fulfilled some 'adult' fantasies , and after some weird encounters, I woke up feeling totally energized. Reality has never been the same since.

[Angela]

In my often-recurring dream, I was always being chased by lots of men with big rifles. (I had been reading Carlos Castaneda a lot while awake, so this time I) looked at my hands, and recognized that I was consciously affecting my dream. I popped up from my hiding place behind a boulder to confront the posse, and was promptly shot in the head. I lay there thinking, hmmm, I wonder if I'll wake up dead? Shortly thereafter, I lost my virginity, and never dreamed about being chased by men with guns again.

Lately I've been inviting my mom to visit my dreams; I would like ask her what has been going on for her during her five years of being dead. She does show up a lot, but somehow I always wake up without having gone "live" in these dreams with her. It's nice to see her, but a little frustrating. Writing this down, I can see that perhaps I've been resisting. So I'm giving up my resistance, right here and now, and invite you, Yolanda, to come on over tonight while I'm sleeping and let's have a chat about the afterlife! We'll have Kahlua!

[Zach]

Once every couple months I have a very realistic dream where I can fly. It's kind of stupid, because I just start flapping my arms and I am able to fly all over the place.. LOL.

The interesting thing is, they seem extremely real, they are in full color, and it actually "feels" like I'm flying. You know, the kind of feeling you get when you're in a taking off jet. I can look down from a high altitude and see the world just like I would if I were in an airplane.

When I wake up I can recall all of it too. Weird.

[LaughingYogi]

I've had lucid, or near lucid dreams since I was a kid, although for the past 8 years or so I forgot. I remember when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade I had my first flying dream. I got the inspiration from a certain Mario Nintendo game, there's a character who jumps and floats for several seconds. I was dreaming I was at my school playground and I started showing all the other kids how jump and float.. It was quite fun, a bunch of little kids floating a few feet off the ground during recess!

Since then I've graduated to better forms of flight Everytime I dream about flying, lucid or not, the next time I do it I can fly much higher and much faster. I believe I'm near jet stream height, and I can get up there from the ground and then back down to the ground in just a few seconds.

[LaughingYogi]

Recently I had a lucid dream where I was quite busy confronting fears and performing spiritual feats unheard of in my waking life, and I got to a point in the dream where some people in my immediate family arrived.

I was still excited about being lucid and explained to them that I was dreaming. They quite calmly explained back that I was certainly not dreaming and that they were real. In order to convince them I said, "If this is real, then how come I have 7 fingers on my hand?" and sure enough I had 7 fingers on my right hand as I waved it in front of them. They were real good sports about it, and accepted the fact I was dreaming.

The few times I've confronted dream characters about them being dream characters, they usually come to terms with it and acted quite calmly, I don't know if I could be calm if I was in their situation.

[Jill]

They quite calmly explained back that I was certainly not dreaming and that they were real.

Sounds a lot like our subjective reality skeptics here on the forums!

[Niki]

Last night, something amazing happened to me in a dream.

I was walking on a street in the neighborhood, when i met somebody who gave me a present. The present was the exact same present that an ex-girlfriend gave me a few years ago.

While looking at the present, i realized that this was not possible, i had trow away that present a long time ago ( a keyring with an animal attached to it).

So i realized: I MUST BE DREAMING.

SO what did i do ? Well stupid as it sounds, i tried to wake up

and yes, i woke op.

But now i now how it feels, and I'm definitely going to work on it.

Greetzzz

[backpocket]

I was in a dream, then I saw a tissue box, and I tried to change the words on it (it was one of those reality tests to practice lucid dreaming).

I managed to change it and I thought, Cool! I'm dreaming!

Then I went to watch TV.

In the dream.

Guess habits just die hard.

[Dilman]

A few nights ago I had my first lucid dream, I was in my school's gym, and we were laying ice hockey for PE(there was an ice rink in the gym), and then my pants fell down, but at least I still had my boxers on, so I checked by feeling to make sure I had boxers on, and I didn't, so I tried to pull my shorts up, but they weren't at my ankles. So I ran in to the locker room, but then I realized that our gym doesn't have an ice rink, so I became lucid. I walked around and talked to some people, then I lost lucidity and went downtown, then I regained lucidity as I was about to cross the street. So as I was crossing, I tried to fly, I jumped into the air as I was crossing, but that didn't do anything, so I walked in to a parking garage, and I can't remember any more of it.

Any tips for flying in lucid dreams?

[Liara Covert]

I was in an office I knew before, and yet, this place had expanded greatly. Walls of the warehouse had come down at the same time as many new empty cardboard boxes appeared to act as obstacles. I made my way around them all, floating. I encountered a large number of additional co-workers beside former ones I'd known. They were startled to see me. They were eating a cake with artificial icing. I didn't eat. It smelled funny to me. In the next room, the bosses were deliberating about a financial matter I had brought to the attention of one boss in particular. He was at a loss about how to solve it. His business partner simply listened while the frustrated one shook his head. I floated through the door, but they didn't see me.

[honeyluv]

One of my most memorable lucid dreams happened back when I was in high school. I was dreaming that i was a member of an army or was an inmate, or somehow a combo of both. My fellow inmates were scrubbing a dirty old interior of a school bus. It was tough and disgusting work, as the whole interior was covered in dried puke, and all we had were tiny little toothbrushes to do the job. I passingly thought to myself that this is a miserable dream I'm having, and then I realized that it was indeed a dream! I looked up at the sargeant in charge of our crew and told him that I didn't want to scrub the dirty bus anymore. He laughed at me amusingly and yelled at me to continue what I was doing. As he said that I remember thinking, wow this seems so real. I looked around me and noticed all the details of the bus. The dried puke was very very disgusting and smelly!! I thought to myself that I needed to get out of that bus pronto, so I threw the toothbrush down, much to chagrin of the sargeant. and walked out of the bus. Once outside, I realized it was parked on a tropical crescent-shaped island. We were surrounded by an expansive blue sky and clear turquoise beaches. Breathtaking!!!

I heard the sargeant yelling at me to get back inside and finish the job, so I went back in the bus and started rambling on about how beautiful it was outside and how everyone needed to come and see for themselves. The sargeant got very mad and yelled that no one was leaving the bus until it was cleaned spick and span. I turned to the sargeant and started laughing and said "That's easy!" I snapped my fingers and the bus was instantly clean! All the inmates were cheering and and poured outside the bus to see the island for themselves. When everyone was outside I told them to get back into the bus because I was going to fly the whole bus. Not everyone wanted to participate but 3 inmates came in with me. I drove the bus around the crescent shaped island as fast as it could go. I was confident I could do this but it was harder than I thought. Eventually we gained some air, but it was a heavy start. I decided that it would be best to shoot straight up 90 degrees to gain height and then I can start flying more smoothly. I turned the bus vertically up and as we were going up, a couple of killer whales jumped out of the ocean synchronised vertically with us. It was a beautiful sight! I got really excited about the whales and ended up waking up at that point.

Since then, I've had many lucid dreams, but a common difficulty I'm having in them is the simple maneuvering of my dream body. As soon as I realize it's a dream, I have a hard time walking around! It feels like walking through thick sludge. And the effort inevitably wakes me up in the end. Oh well, I guess I just have to keep practicing.

[xhironakamurax]

Hmm the thought of lucid dreaming or astral makes my heart go fast, dunno why.

I had a Lucid dream when I was really young, I was outside of my house the sky was purple the houses were green and brown, all coloured were like inverted and halloween colours... and then I realized I was dreaming and wait what felt like an hour to wake up.
I just remembered right now that I had another lucid dream awhile back where there was like indiana jones, and me and I wanted a pokéball because I noticed I was dreaming and knew I could do anything once I had realized, and I never got my pokéball.

[schola]

"Holy crap I'm lucid drea...aw damn I woke up."

[seo1]

shola you're a funny guy...

[carenkh]

Funny, but very much like my first experience! In my dream, I saw a book on a table. I thought "I wonder if I can pick up that book?" My hand reached out, I touched the book so it slid a little, I went: "Wow! I'm lucid drea..." and I woke up.

[kdcaboy]

It's been amazing for me to read some of Steve's articles and everyone's posts on Lucid dreaming -- I've been able to make sense of my experiences when I was much younger!

When I was a kid I used to lie in bed and just imagine that I was spinning around like a top, and once I got going I would start moving on another axis... really *feeling* the movement, but consciously not letting any of my muscles tense or flex... and before you know it I was flying! I could go from awake in bed to flying just like that!

I've always known and remembered that, although for some reason there has been a block or something in place and I've never had the patience to do it successfully since.

It wasn't until about a year ago when I read an article about Lucid Dreaming, and found people explicitly describing the "spinning" method, that I realized that's what I had been doing! And I wondered how had I known how to to this intuitively? It's a method that certainly works, I can vouch for that!

I'm now 30 and hope to be able to repeat this again soon :-) Every now and then I suddenly become lucid in my dreams (one of them was even... um... X-rated...) or have what may be considered more "astral travel?" These are times where I have decided I wanted to wake up, but I've had the sensation that I don't know where my body is and it takes me some time to find my way back.

I am working on gaining better control of this, I suppose practice makes perfect :-)

[KLEER]

hey all, i am an extremely new lucid dreamer, any help would be appreciated

My first dream (unintentional) was being chased through New York city by an Indian guy (who looked like my firend) with an uzi, I hid behind a big sheet of blue plastic and he lost me, but then noticed and shot me...I woke up later like WTF just happened!!! (I was 10)

My weirdest dream was the one i had last night (my first time attempting to induce) I said my mantra and went to fall asleep, i remeber waking up and feeling my skin begin to ripple from my forehead down (to my toes) then I heard a deafining boom noise and woke up again( I have been thinking about the possible affects of LSD lately)...does anyone know what that was or why i couldnt control it? or how to control it better tonight?

[JMonkey]

I've only had one Lucid dream in my life. I was driving down a dirt track in a go-kart and randomly thought "This isn't real" (even though I've had a lot more obvious dreams) I stopped the go-kart, got out and looked at it, then I blinked and it turned into a BMW M3. Then all of a sudden I start spinning involuntary with my arms out, getting faster and faster, then woke up.

[MaxCfood]

So, I had my first lucid dream about a month ago. I was at this party and then all the sudden I realized that I was dreaming... All I can say is that that was my best lucid dream ever..

[votoshka]

My first lucid dream (well the first I can recall) was quite funny, simply because I was trying to sleepwalk!

I would have been about 7 at the time, and was sleeping in my parents' bed (I may have gone there during the night I think). Anyway, I was REALLY concentrating on sleepwalking as soon as I got to sleep... I focussed on this with all my willpower until I fell asleep.

And sure enough, as soon as I went to sleep I thought, "Cool I'm asleep... now I'll get up and sleepwalk." So I got out of bed and walked across the room to the door, all the time thinking, "Yay, I'm really sleepwalking!" I can't remember what happened in the rest of the dream, but I do remember waking up and telling my mum I sleepwalked, and of course she told me I hadn't moved

Years later, when I learned what lucid dreaming was I realised I'd actually had a lucid dream.

Incidentally, I find the easiest time to lucid dream is when I am really tired. Tired enough that if I close my eyes for just a few seconds I'll go to sleep. What I'll do is I'll lie there, wait to fall asleep and then to test whether I am asleep or not I will lift my arm. If my arm lifts easily, then I am asleep (because otherwise I'd have the weight of the covers on my arm). The interesting thing about these dreams is I am able to continue my train of thought from wakefulness to sleep, which usually doesn't happen when I go to sleep.

However, I still am not great at controlling my lucid dreams and can't always make the things happen that I want to!