Thanks to you guys, I've almost mastered becoming Lucid. Thanks so much for all of your help! I should have plenty of sleeptime over the holidays, so I think I should have it mastered pretty soon.

However, there's still one final barrier.

Last night, I became Lucid for the fourth or fifth time. I woke up after five hours' sleep, got up, drank some milk, went to bed, and tried to WILD.

To be honest, I can't actually remember if I ever lost conciousness... I have a hunch that I didn't, though.

I remember suddenly realising that I was standing in the corridor outside of my room (quite a strange sensation). And that it was daytime. So, I did an RC, and obviously it was successful. On a side note, would you say that this was a WILD..? It's kind of hard to explain what happened, but I think some of you might understand... There wasn't a clear cut transition, you see. It's all very vague... all of a sudden, I realised that I wasn't in bed any more.

Anyway, after become Lucid, I went downstairs, and pulled a bar of chocolate out of my pocket (I always do this when I first become Lucid. Kind of a gimmik, really. Taking the mick out of the fact that people pay lots of money for sweets and I can just conjure them at will... ). I looked at the scenery. It was pretty realistic.

However, this is where my problem occurs. As always, I wasn't actually fully Lucid. I hadn't really realised that I was dreaming, in a sense. The dream just went downhill from here. I simply went out into the garden and laid in the shed until I woke up (of all the bloody things ).

So, here is my question: What can I do to get fully Lucid?

I heard that shouting that I'm dreaming and that I have full control should work, but I did actually try this at the start of the dream, and it can't of had that much of an effect...

I look forwards to hearing your solutions. I know I'm really close. I've just got this one last step to overcome.

Many thanks,
Xei.