Various Attempts at Lucid Dreaming

Lucid Dreaming (Dreaming while being aware, in the dream, that you are having a dream) is a fascination I have had throughout most of my life.  However, it's not something that I have had a lot of luck with actually doing.  Never the less, I figured I would post my feeble successes on this subject for any who care to read them.

My interest in lucid dreams began after reading a dream issue of OMNI magazine.  According to an OMNI magazine collector I've found on the internet, it was probably the issue published in March 1982, making me 9 years old when I read it.  This article described people flying around and exploring dream landscapes that, for all intents and purposes, looked and felt absolutely real.  Although the article contained instructions on how to have a lucid dream, involving waves of energy flowing through your body before going to sleep, I always would hit a mental block so I never managed to finish the process.  Although my interests and pursuits of this subject have waxed and waned over the years, I feel that reading this article was one of the pivotal moments of my life.

A while back, I listened to an interview with Robert Waggoner (the lucid dream expert, not the actor.  :-P  ) on the internet radio show Dreamland and this not only brought my interest back but also led me to research multiple ways of inducing a lucid dream.

In reading through the entries in my journal posted since then, I've found many dreams with partial lucidity, though only two were what I would call 'lucid.'  And here they are...

9-20-09  (Dream)
I might've had my first lucid dream last night, though only for a few seconds.  In the normal dream state I was looking at a white marble statue that resembled a tree, but also reminded me of a mushroom.  There was some sort of piano keyboard built into its trunk and it was playing music, though I can't remember what.
I woke up and went back to bed where I continued the dream, but now I was lucid.  I stood on a notch of the tree trunk inspecting the interior of the canopy.

11-20-09 (Dream)
I had a very short, only a few seconds, lucid dream.
I was standing next to the street in a busy city and I could feel the stones of the walkway beneath my feet.  This city felt like it might have been in South America.  The street was packed with people.  A little van/car drove by which did not look like anything you'd see in the United States.  There was a woman with dark curly hair in the car and she waved at me as she drove by.  This woman seemed self-aware.


As you can tell, my success in this field has been extremely rare and only lasted a few seconds when it did happen, but I have had success, none the less.  While reading through my journal, I was amazed at how many dreams I've had with partial lucidity!