Cant control my lucid dream!

[BradleyZ]

last night, it lasted about 5 minutes before i woke up from my parents, i had a lucid dream, but it didnt act lucid, which doesnt really make sense. i was a in kind of a video game world and i randomly new that i was dreaming, then i started to wake up and so i went back to sleep thinking i am going to lucid dream.... heres the twist. well i ran around the world a little stretching out the world and such for these 4 minutes and then i woke..... i realized that i had no control what so ever, obviously if i had control i wouldnt waste it stretching the world out, also when i woke up, i realizedi had never really woken up :o i had this feeling of waking up in my dream... freaky! So my question is, how do i gain control in my lucid dream, plz dont send me to a link! also, any tips on the WTBT method????? Thank you!

[Scionox]

There could be two explanations of this, either you had low awareness lucid dream with lack of waking memory or it could have been non-lucid dream about actions that one would do when lucid, though if you are sure that you were really aware of dreaming, then it was lucid, it's really up to you to decide. Either way, keep practicing awareness and lucid dreaming and don't be discouraged, and think positive, you can control them and with practice it will get better. Do you have a goal list by the way? If not, then make one and read it some times through the day and especially before going to sleep, it can help remembering them in dream, and with them more of waking life memory. Even though you said no links, i highly suggest checking out those threads: http://www.dreamviews.com/dild/13212...ods-dilds.html and http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...m-control.html . I can understand why you said that, you aren't much into reading, right? But some things are just worth reading so much and it's better to just link them. As for WBTB technique, the best timing between waking up and going to sleep as well as amount of activity generally varies from person to person, for some people even 5 minutes is too much and for others it can go on for hours, i'd say experiment with it until you find the time where you can still fall asleep while having decent awareness. By the way if you have time during day and can fall asleep you can try napping too, naps are golden for lucid dreaming.