I'm totally new at all of this, and a few nights ago I sort of had a very weak LD but it lasted about 5 seconds and then I woke up. I had just realized that I was dreaming because what was happening was just too good to be true, and then everything faded to gray and felt far away, and then I woke up. I read about LDing last year when my friends and I were getting into it, but last night was the first time that anything even remontely LDish happened, and I wasn't even trying.

But anyway, I just have a few questions.

1) I was reading over these boards and I see that lots of people have people chasing them in their dreams and they're getting shot, stabbed, etc...Do these things just randomly happen to you while you're LDing, or do you have to sort of...'make' it happen?

2) If you were to get um, sexually involved in a LD, can it just be anybody? Like, if I got to where I could do that kind of thing, could I do it with, say, Johnny Depp? XD Have any of you had sex with celebrities in your dreams?

3) My mother, a few years ago, had a dream and she thinks that it was lucid. It was rather creepy, because the person that she was seeing and talking to in the dream was someone that had died in his sleep that night, and in the dream he was telling my mother things like, 'It's not your time to go now. Stay here on Earth and do good.' Was this an LD?

4) Ever since I was about 12 or so, I've been able to sort of feel myself waking up. I could be having a normal dream or even no dream at all, and sometimes I'll have this sense of conciousness and everything will be black and I'll kind of see myself shaking my head and I'll feel like I'm traveling through a tunnel and then I'll wake up. Is this some form of LD?

Ok, thanks.