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My First Lucid DreamBy: Jerry A. Greene Whoops! Wrong Door... Everything seems normal... You are walking towards the closed door of your bedroom and go to open it... "Wow, that's weird, I must have not been thinking", you ponder to yourself, and forgot that it's the next door over. Although this seems kind of strange, it's somewhat familiar...Are you going crazy? No...just dreaming! If you were like most people, you would feel a little dazed, but would go on your way through this world like nothing weird ever really happened, until you woke up and realized...ah, that was a dream! But what would happen if you questioned it while it was happening? If you had the waking-state mind to know that this couldn't possibly be right....well you would most likely enter the Lucid Dreaming Experience... We had a long hallway, that resembled that of a hotel with doors that went into the each of the dorm rooms and community bathrooms. Everything that was happening in the dream seemed normal to me, until I opened the second door. I had been reading a book called "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" By Dr. Stephen LaBerge & Howard Rheingold and had been trying for the past 3 nights to have a lucid dream, as explained in the book, but without any luck. But this time, things were different... It suddenly "hit" me. All of a sudden I felt this woosh. If you have never had a lucid dream before, it is hard to describe in words, but most of us have had a sensation of falling in the infamous "falling dream". Well, it's sort of like that. It can be scary at first, but once it stops, you look around in utter amazement, knowing that everything that you are seeing is being created BY YOUR MIND! I was standing there, in my dream, fully aware that it was a dream. I looked around at the walls, the floor, the people in the hallway. I couldn't believe it! Everything was more real than real life. I then remembered that the book had said to try to fly as this would be something that would be impossible to do in the real world. Now I was in a long hallway, with I would say about 12 foot ceilings. There wasn't much room, plus people were in the hallway and I would look really funny trying to do this if it was in fact real life. I had this feeling that I really was dreaming so I had to try it. I started to run down the hallway and jumped into the air...sure enough, I flew! I started screaming to everyone..."I did it! I did it! I'm having a lucid dream and I'm Flying!!!" From what I remember, everyone was congratulating me and I had this surge of energy rush through me once again. I simply couldn't believe it! I ran downstairs (in the dorm hall) and outside screaming at the top of my lungs that this was a dream! I decided that I wanted to go for a ride. I found a car that was waiting for me. It was a taxi cab, and for some reason I had been expecting a limo. I said, "ON NO, I am supposed to have a limo!" I snapped my fingers and like magic, the taxi turned into a black limousine! Again, simply amazed, I got in and was ecstatic with the detail of my dream world and how REAL it felt. I got in and realized that I did not have a CD player and wanted one so that I could put on music...so again, with all the confidence in the world, snapped my fingers and there it appeared! Then, from all the excitement, I woke up. Not only did I wake up, but it had appeared as if I had been awake all along with absolutely no grogginess, or time needed to actually "wake up". This would be really strange to someone if they were watching! My room-mate was sleeping. I wanted to wake him so badly to tell him what had just happened, but figured I had better wait since he had had a long night. Again it is so hard to describe how this feels in words. Once you have your first lucid dream, You'll definitely want to tell the world as did I. This is the reason I put this web site together. If At First You Don't Succeed... |