JoshGoldie

2 nights ago i was in a nightmare were i was about to be killed, i was about to manually awaken myself as i do in this type of situation in nightmares, but instead i stayed in and looked at my hands as a reality check, and it look as if my hands were all reflected by mirrors as there were loads of reflections, then i appear in this room with 2 of my friends, i remember looking down at my hands again and i had 20 fingers on each hand and i knew that i was dreaming, however i thought that my 2 friends were also lucid dreaming and could control everything.... and i did not really take controll, i just "knew" i was dreaming, but i also thought that my friends were real was this a lucid dream?

So last night i had my first real lucid Dream! and this is how i did it and what happened.
(non lucid) I was being chased by these guards over this big field, which lead into a forest. As i entered the forest i seen that the guard had stopped chasing me, so i ended up roaming in the woods until i woke up. As i awakened i recorded my dream in my voice recorder with all the details of the forest and what actually happened. And as i started to fall back to sleep i kept on reminding myself of the intention to become lucid, and i was also trying to picture the forest to try and re-enter the dream. Shortly after, i am walking in the forest and i think to my-self "this seems familiar" and then it hit me, "i just recorded this dream scene in my dream journal, so this must be a dream!", so as i walked forward i seen a large open field which seemed to be foggy and unclear, but since i was somewhat lucid, i decided to rub my hands together and the second time i looked back up BAM!, everything became so clear, vibrant and full of life. The grass was a healthy bright green color, and i could clearly see the field stretch for miles, the sky was a crisp light blue with no cloud in sight. And as i looked to my right i seen a tree right beside me, i could see the bark clearly hanging off the tree trunk and every single crack and small detail, it was as clear as real life but much more colorful and exotic. Then i seen a girl in the distance so i imagined her being directly in front of me, then she just suddenly appeared there. I decided that i wanted to change this random person to a girl that i know, but as i closed my eyes and tried to imagine her multiple times, [/COLOR]she would not change into the person that i wanted her to be and then i heard voices and as i looked behind me i seen a huge search party that was after me, but i did not think of them as dream characters, i thought that they were real so i ran away, at that point is where i think that i lost my lucidity.

Does anyone know why i couldn't change that dream charter to a girl that i know?
other than that, i have never experienced anything like that before! it was so beautifull and its amazing to think of the world that is inside your own head.