Hello Dreamviews, I've been lurking these forums for the past 8 years on and off, and finally I registered. I've tried getting lucid before but didn't have any success since I wasn't really willing to make an effort (now I understand the importance of will when it comes to lucid's). A couple of weeks ago I went on my vacations and I was reading one of Castaņeda's book's which surprisingly helped me become lucid ("Journey to Ixtlan", awesome book). I saw my hand in the dream and questioned the nature of the experience I was having and 'voila', I was lucid for the first time of my life, I even stabilized it by looking at the back of my hand just like Don Juan's suggestion. I'm never forgetting the feeling of my first lucid, it was beyond amazing, it felt more vivid than reality.

This experience motivated me to keep on trying to get lucid, so I decided to make and envision a goal, I wanted to meet someone from my childhood in my dreams, let's call her V. After reading several books and threads about dream control I understood that control relied in focus & intent, so I knew that if I wanted to meet V I had to find her first. This led me into a series of traumatizing events with doors (I've read in several books that the door method is the best way to teleport somewhere), this is short summary of my LD's so far:

Week 1:
First LD, no goal here, got distracted my female DC's.
Second LD, super blurry, couldn't stabilize it, ended up awake after a few seconds.
Third LD, the moment I became lucid I remember my goal, so I went and looked for the first door I could find. I knew I had the intent of "finding her behind the door", but instead I found a classroom with 3 DC's studying. I asked one of the them if they had seen her to which he replied he didn't. This made me really upset since I knew I had the intent, so I tried shouting her name but instead of her appearance one of the DC's ended up telling me to shut up. This made me even madder and I ended up awake.

This made me wonder if my intent was wrong and I decided to approach it in some other way, instead of "finding her behind the door" I decided to "be in her room after I open the door", I'm sure I'd have to find her in her house.

Week 2:
Fourth LD, I was in my house, tried every single door in the house but always ended up on my own house. Got so frustrated that I ended up awake.

From this LD I learnt that maybe opening and closing the same door might have the same effect so I tried that in my next lucid.

Week 3:
Fifth LD, was in a backyard I've never seen before, and I see three doors, so I decide to go and try again. Open an close the first door several times, all the times with the intent and focus on the task of finding V's room. After failing so much I decide to try with the second door, and again, same awful results. As a last hope I decide to try the third door, so I open it and find another door behind the door (doorception), which was locked. At that point a DC pats my back and gives me a key, so I try opening it with the key and it didn't work. At this point I look at the DC with a "wtf" face and he starts laughing. Again, frustration and me awake as a result.

I'm really running out of ideas on DC summoning so I'm here looking for suggestions. Anyway, thanks for reading this wall of text and I'm happy of finally posting here, I look forward to your insight fellow dreamers.

tl;dr: Want to summon a DC but when I try to teleport with doors I end up being trolled by the dream doors.