Sephiro12

Well, I'm writing this on the morning of my second lucid dream in two weeks! It's been a while since I LD'd, but I definitely now know for sure that the best time for me to do it is in the morning when sleeping in; this is when I dream the most anyway. It's basically WBTB caused by the sun coming up and my alarm going off.

Anyway, the first LD happened about a week ago. I don't exactly remember when I became lucid, but it seems like pretty much the beginning. I was in like almost what you'd think of as a train station. Not the train platform, but the shopping center like meeting area of a large train station. Since the last time I had a LD I really wished I had examined my surroundings after I woke up, I decided to do so. I walked up to this sort of barrier thing that I could see over (two pillars stretching to the ceiling with a wall between them that went to about 5' high and had plants in the top and benches on both sides ) and on the other side were 2 elevator doors. Wow, I really wish I had thought to go over to the elevator doors. This is my problem in LD's so far, I still consider the dream a shaky unstable thing so I kind of rush to do everything.
So, I looked at the doors, looked at something close nearby, etc. I only did it for like 15 seconds probably. Then I went back to where I'd been before, which wasn't very far away and was the same kind of theme, everything was a nice shiny light brown color, and there were large singular pillars with plants in the top and benches on all sides. I wanted to have sex in the dream, as always, so suddenly there was a girl at the bench with us. I think I was with a couple friends. I went up to the girl and started unbuttoning her shirt as we made out.
That was all that happened, though, and the next thing I remember I was over by this wall covered in pieces of white paper with children's drawings on them. They were on a wall that I remember as being either in or closer to the actual train platforms. Or wait, no... ok, well I was looking for big black portions on the pieces of paper because I had a piece of chalk and the black portions somehow worked as chalkboard. I wanted to draw a door in the chalkboard and go through it to somewhere. However, I could only find small little bits of "chalkboard" and the biggest door I drew was like 1 x 2 feet. This is sort of encouraging though because I know that I could have drawn a door and gone through it, but was limited by the circumstances in my dream.. shows me that I need to learn dream control better but that creating a door (something I really want to achieve) is possible.
This was about the end of the dream, I think I attempted squeezing through the door and I couldn't.

And now for this morning's dream. I wish I had put down the last one sooner so I could've applied its lessons . So I was in a place with a similar color scheme (large shiny tiles of light brown stone) but this time I believe it was a castle of some kind. Although I was never outside, I know it was up at the top of a mountain. So, I was just kind of walking into this room that was in the castle and yet was almost like a department store and I realized that I was dreaming. I don't know whether I was sort of awake or not, but I remember feeling quite awake about it, like I was partway in the waking world even though I didn't see or feel it. So IMMEDIATELY (with perhaps too much a sense of urgency) I decided to go examine some books/pictures in this large bin thing full of books and CDs and such. The picture that I looked at (for like 5 seconds ) was similar to a painting I'd seen the last night:

(Hazelleesantino at flickr).
Anyway, it looked like that. The next thing I remember is that, what do you know, I wanted to find someone to have sex with again. lol, so I was trying to find someone but there was no one around. I got outside and was on like this staircase that sort of wrapped around the castle when I ran into this woman I sometimes see who talks my ear off. Somehow she was advising me on finding a person though, and she actually seemed to be an authority on the dreamworld and what I could do and stuff. Wish I'd been conscious enough to ask her questions. Anyway, unfortunately I found myself being pulled out of the dream. I tried to hold on, and "asked" why it was happening, and then I could distinctly hear my alarm clock going off. It was really annoying, because I know that if there hadn't been some continuous distraction that I had to wake up and deal with, I could've gotten back into the dream.

So, those are the two lucid dreams I've had recently! I hope to have more, and since school's out now I should be able to sleep in more frequently and possibly have some! The biggest thing I've realized is that I need to not feel quite so urgent about looking at/examining things. Also, whether I do both or only one, I need to actually revolve and look at my surroundings, not just something up close. Probably something up close first, but then afterwards look around. It would also be good if I were to put the sex bit aside for once to do some exploration! Still want to materialize a phone or something in my pocket that I can use to control things, need to go through doors, talk to DC's, etc. I need to forego trying to make things appear and stuff at least a little bit, though, to just gain experience on what it's like to be in a dream. But yeah, it sure is motivating and exciting to know that I can lucid dream and also that I will be able to control things.