Firstly hello to all, newbie alert! i'm not exactly a newbie to forums in general though as i am a moderator on two!

Anyway i'll cut a long story short.

i was lookin' at the Dream Views site last week and i found it very interesting. I'm sure i have had lucid dreams in the past and have been able to control them to some extent, but i realised that i hadn't had any for ages. And that they are really interesting. This morning i woke up at about 11 am, watched a bit of a DVD (Lord Of The Rings "The Return Of The King") and then decided to go back to bed (i had been celebrating my 23rd birthday party the night before and i was proper shattered!) Anyway on returning to sleep in my dream i realised that i was dreaming and it felt really cool but it didn't last - everything went black? i couldn't see anything and then i woke up. What happened? Did the fact that i had realised i was dreaming within my dream excite me so much that i woke from my sleep? Wouldn't be surprised as i haven't had one for a long time ?

Any tips on provoking these sort of dreams to happen again / keeping them there and not waking from them?

Cheers guys