How I Achieved My First Lucid Dream
Everyone remembers their first lucid dream.
Mine was at 14 years old. It wasn't an accident - I'd spent weeks trying to capture that elusive moment of clarity in my dreams.
And when it finally happened, I knew I'd tapped into something special.
In this article I'll take you through the events that led to my first conscious dream and how you can leverage these same methods to produce yours.
A Curious Nature
As a teenager I developed an interest in all things paranormal. Urban legends, ghost stories, alien abductions, remote viewing, extra-sensory perception, telekenesis, psychic readings and all that jazz. I was interested in learning about the wider world - and particularly things that defied explanation. They were exciting and they fell neatly into my need for science-fiction, too.
It was probably my older brother who got me into this stuff. He collected magazines like Alien and Fortean Times. I would sneak into his bedroom and steal the latest issues, to be amazed at the weirdness of the world and capture bizarre news stories to tell my friends at school the next day.
(Times have surely changed. I'm now 30 and a skeptic and a scientist at heart. The main reason this is better is because I don't believe everything I hear on TV or read in magazines. Especially ones designed to profit from my childlike curiousity - selling all manner of mail-order products like love potions to attract the opposite sex and pendant necklances to increase psychic ability.)
Back to 1997. I remember reading about remote viewing and wondering whether I could do that. Why not? It looked really cool. And how much better would my life be if I could teleport my mind to anywhere in the world (even the solar system, according to one remote viewer) and check out what other people were doing. Like a secret spy.
The remote viewing article talked about alpha and theta brainwaves and how you had to tap into a certain locale with co-ordinates. It didn't really explain how to do it but it did say you could go on their weekend retreat and learn from the experts for hundreds of dollars. I was just a kid with no disposable income and so I messed around with how I thought it might work - what I would now describe as daydreaming and light guided meditation - until something else much more interesting caught my eye...
A Lucid Discovery
On the cover of one of the paranormal magazines was something called "lucid dreaming". I didn't know what that meant but I knew I was interested in dreams, and so perhaps this could lead to an interesting offshoot.
About The Author
Rebecca Casale is a lucid dreamer and a science writer with a special interest in biology and the brain. She is the founder of World of Lucid Dreaming and Science Me.
