I was THIS close to having a Lucid Dream!
Alright, first of all let me say this site is amazing! So much help. I've been training for lucidity for a week now and last night without trying I almost had a lucid dream but need some help from you guys, here's what happened:
I followed this tutorial ( htt**p://img532.imageshack.us/img532/9822/1272102744530.jpg remove asterisks)by accident without even knowing I was following it. I was tired and was trying to go to sleep, then I started hearing this weird vibrating, humming sound, I then noticed I was in sleep paralysis and my body was feeling all tingly, and I instantly remembered about the tutorial and knew I was about to lucid dream. Only problem was that I kept switching in and out of dreamworld and into real world, I would close my eyes but my room would appear(Sorta like my eyelids had holes in them), so it felt like I kept rapid blinking. I wanted to make sure what I was in so I remembered about the "Light switch trick" so I instantly pictured a light switch, at this time I was still lying in bed confused, so I just reached out my arm (like how someone would try to reach to turn off an alarm when they're still sleepy) and I sorta felt this light switch and I flicked it, heard the flicking noise, but the lights didn't go on so I knew I was in a lucid dream. But then the rapid blinking became faster and I was getting so confused so I just sorta gave up and opened my eyes real wide to wake up.(During this WHOLE experience I kept 'rapid blinking')
Now I need help to completely get into dream land, I was right there but I couldn't completely get there. And by the way, the rapid blinking was because my 'dream land'/setting was the same exact place as my real world setting, only that one cabinet in my bedroom was different so I could sorta tell them apart.
Please Help! Thank you!