Hello everyone,
I am posting this thread both here and on reddit, I hope it's fine. I'm really excited about what happened and I am hoping it will help me become a lucid dreamer again.

I started lucid dreaming years ago and succeeded almost immediately. At first I could only fly around, then with practice I could control them more and more. This was extremely fun but also got scary due to my anxiety. I also had an extraordinary experience when I'm almost sure I talked to my subconsciousness which I may explain in a separate post.
Unfortunately I wasn't ready to face my fears so lucid nightmares got worse and I had to stop. But I couldn't remove my past reality checks from my subconsciousness so ever since then I get a lucid dream from time to time.
With time my 'powers' in LDs got weaker and for the past year or so the only thing I could do was fly around and even that I did poorly, like there was an energy bar above my head and after some time I'd always run out of it and fall down.
Also (again, due to my anxiety I suppose) all of my LDs during that year would start with me waking up in my room, something scary happening, me jumping out of the window in order not to face it, flying around for a minute, falling down and walking around. Almost no control of the dream.
I was very recently dealing with something scary, I won't go into too much detail because some would call it paranormal while others would say it was brain tricks and this is completely unimportant. But after that I did a lot of thinking and my fear went away. I'm not afraid of darkness, sleeping alone and ghost stories anymore and when something alarming happens I can keep calm.

So, to the point: Last night I had 3 surprise lucid dreams. All of them super vivid and in all of them I had absolute control. I even remembered tricks that I barely ever used but read about them years ago when I was into this (for example, my go to technique to stay in a dream was always swirling around but yesterday I was rubbing my hands together). It was an absolutely amazing experience and nothing really scary happened this time, there were some mildly scary occurrences but I didn't freak out and handled them well.
Do you guys think that this may be my brain telling me that it's time to start lucid dreaming again? That the anxiety is gone and now I can enjoy it? I really missed it during those years I wasn't practicing and every once in a while I considered doing this again, but I didn't feel ready to face my fears so I would always postpone this decision.
Also, do you think that if I start lucid dreaming again I will have all of my forgotten 'powers'? I know that we can only speculate and I will have to see but I'm interested in your opinion.

Another thing: you know how dream characters always freak out or say something stupid when you ask them serious questions or tell them that it's a dream? Well yesterday for the first time in my life a dream character actually admitted that he's in a dream.
I was walking around this beautiful park and I saw this guy, thought that I'm gonna try asking him something serious to see his reaction. So I walk up to him and say 'Hey, could you describe to me how it feels to dream?' and he starts laughing. So he laughs and laughs and then says 'You sneaky bastard, I cannot believe that you had guts to say it to a lucid dream character'. I was completely shocked. He wouldn't say anything else so I went to plant some mushrooms, which I will describe in a minute. In another dream I had this night I asked the same question to another DC but they just kept laughing and it got a little creepy so I walked away.

The park I was in was really beautiful and it looked like a mix of reality with some sort of a fairytale, reminded me of the game Aion I used to play years ago. There were some glowing plants around and after I almost got kicked out (but saved it by rubbing my hands together) I got this idea to plant some magic mushrooms that I would treat as potions So I imagined mushrooms with different colors, one color for staying in a dream, one color for dream control and one for vividness. And then I ate them. Now, I don't really know if it worked, I didn't get kicked out of a dream for a longer while after eating them, but my dream control and vividness were amazing from the start so it's hard to say. Do you guys think it's possible? I mean whatever you believe in in a dream right?

Lastly, my dream ended with me walking up to a closed gate and instead of opening it, I imagined that it's made of chocolate and I ate it. Oh did I miss it or what.