first proper lucid dream!

Date: 10/12/2018

I tried out this cognitive behavioral therapy technique from Reddit. it entailed visualozing and diving into an imaginary scenario where you visit your childhood self, hang out, and give them the positive affirmations you wished you recieved as a child. then you take your little self with you and show them all the cool things that are a part of your current life. in doing so, it is supposed to support you in your day to day life, by creating a foundation inside you. it's also used in anxiety, trauma and addiction therapy. I closed my eyes and (while fully awake) created this scene of my current self stepping into my old house back when I was 8. I met my younger self, he was kind of a lot like Hirsh hahaha. i then brought him to Dover Bay and showed him some of the cool goings on at the school. that's when I realized that in my visualizing and intentionally fabricating this scene, I had accidentally slipped into a lucid dream!! it was SOOO wild. the little kid version of me wasn't present anymore, and I was in this imaginary upstairs art classroom. I wasn't able to become blindingly clearly lucid, but I was able to recognize that I was in a dream. it was a little hard to stay asleep because I had just woken up from a full night's rest. I did though, and explored the dream Dover. I didn't do anything crazy, because I didn't have full control of the dream scene. I had full control over myself in it however. I walked around and I talked to people, and honestly it was so surreal -- at times it didn't feel like a dream at all. I headed to the big locker bay during lunch and shot the shit with some people. it sort of felt like I was drunk/high because I had to focus sooo hard to stay present. after probably 10 minutes or so, I could feel the dream slipping away and went fuckit and let myself wake up. it was wiiiild. I then had a three part dream about this weird fantasy fairy academia scenario. It might've been just a regular dream that was episode 3 of this dream sequence, and I felt like I had dreamed episodes 1 and 2, but I hadn't and those were just false memories 👀 Or what most likely happened was I had three back to back dreams that I dreamed happened on three separate dream days. Either way, it was a weird and entertaining two hours!!