Hello Everyone!

I'm a Lucid Dreaming beginner and joined DreamViews in search of Lucid Dreaming and to share my experiences with friendly fellow Lucid Dreamers. The concept of Lucid Dreaming is still in fact a concept only learnt three days ago when listening commentary on a YouTube video. I was immediately interested in this and started searching for information as i'm sure many beginners do. Six hours of research later and lots of reading of your wiki I finally felt tired and went to sleep for the night. I woke during the night, around 4-5 hours later but after an estimated 5-20 seconds went back to sleep but this time it was different. I was back in my dream but this time i realized this and said to myself " Hang on, I'm dreaming aren't I?" just as i realized i was having a lucid dream, it ended as quick as it came. My vision went black and loud buzzing started, which woke me up. The next day I begun reading more tips on LDing and have now started keeping a dream journal which is a small leather notebook that i keep next to my bed and are recording around one dream per day in around medium detail. I am now on day three and every night I am waking up around 4-7 hours after going to bed (without an alarm, etc), which i something i have never done previously. It seems as though my sub conscious want me to experience a LD as much as I do. I have been reading about different LDing techniques and the WILD technique looks really interesting, but it seems recommended that you have rather good dream recall before attempting, which is what i have been waiting for. Should i try this now? i'm not too sure.

I have a few questions though.
How do I prolong my lucid dreams and stop the vision blackness and the loud buzzing? Also What techniques tend to work for beginners? I realize everyone may have a different one that works for them.

Thank You for any help you can provide. : )

ShadowCloud