Nonsense and Conundrums

I think this lucid dream (it seemed a lot more like an OBE, but it doesn't really matter) also occurred when I was about five or six, a little while after the first. And for someone my age, this one was a nightmare.

I "woke up" in my bed. Upon getting up, I suddenly realized I could feel my body still sleeping in my bed, yet here I was, standing up and fully awake!

I walked down the hall of my house, heading toward my parents room to see if I could see them sleeping. For some reason, there was small patches of the floor that were on fire. Once I was in my parent's room, all seemed well, but their closet door was open wide. They had one of those big walk in closets, so I went inside.

Perched upon the top shelf was a strange looking dark creature that I considered to be a vampire at the time. It didn't do much of anything but stare at me, but seeing anything so hideous at my young age was utterly terrifying, and I willed my self to wake up by forcing my waking-self's eyes open.

My first lucid dream occurred when I was either 4 or 5 years old. I was out in the front yard of a ranch house on a countryside, and there was a red truck with two teenage girls leaning against it, having a conversation with each other. This struck me as odd, for some reason; then I suddenly realized I didn't live in a ranch house on the countryside, I actually lived in a subdivision, so I must be dreaming!

Being the silly young child I was, I became so excited about being able to control myself in my own dream. The first thing I did was run up to the two girls near the truck, waving my arms and shouting "This is a dream, you're not real!" They both gave me a strange look just before the dream collapsed, and I woke up.