Well, this is my first post here.

I found about this place a month ago, and I'm not a natural lucid dreamer. I do recall being lucid in childhood nightmares, but ever since I learnt how to realize it was just a dream, I haven't remembered a nightmare, or a lucid dream since.
I've been trying to lucid dream since a few weeks ago. I've kept a dream journal, but I haven't written much. There was one dream that I wrote about 200 words on, though. Anyways, I tried listening to music during my sleep to realize that I'm dreaming, but my iPod ran out of batteries. I am not familiar with the dream terms, but last night something awesome happened to me. I woke up in the middle of the night, but I was barely awake. I remembered a post that I read here. I kept telling myself that I'm dreaming and that I'm going to become lucid. After repeating that for about a minute, I started reciting the alphabet (I also read this in the same post I read earlier.) At some point, my body started shaking. I was scared, excited and confused at once. Slowly the sensation started going away, though... I tried to hold on to it, but it went away... I think I got too excited, or I did something wrong. I also may have been thinking too hard.
I'm not too frustrated that I didn't become lucid, I'm just frustrated because I was so close.