Ok, i am new here first of all and wanna say hi to everyone in this wonderful comunity.
I've been looking for this kind of website for a long time, now i am 21 ... i was 16 when first got interested in lucid dreaming, i even read a book written by Steven Lamberg on it and had a signifficant progress in achieving lucidity. Then i, for some reason, lost interest in all of it and gave up. Now i am this little stoty to tell, after I resumed my quest in the world of dreams 4 year later on. I think it might be interesting.

So here it comes.
My experience story

As i already mentioned now i am 21, and decided to try out "waking up" in a dream again, because i had and still do have these monotonous reocurring dreams. Often with different characters, but usually in the same place (set up with minor changes) - and the most annoying thing is that atmosphere of my dreams is always the same - you know this feel after you wake up is always pressuring and rather depressing, i'd say(all the dreams set up in my former country..it seems it just wont let me go). So I found old book with all the excercises i did 4 years ago, as well as i found this web site - which was a great help so far
I started excercising - practicing WILD, meditation, dream journal (which is pretty huge by now) etc, nothing what -so - ever seemed to happen!

But one morning changed my perception of life ... i can hardly describe what happened. But i will try my best.
So i was staying at my friends place the whole night - watching Dave Chapelle , i got home by 9 am all sleepy and beat. Headed straight to the bed , lied down ... all of a sudden i felt that my heart seemed to stop beating, right away i got pretty scared and sat up on the bed, took 2-3 deep breathes, felt the pulse again - everything seemed back to normal. I thought - "ohh well didnt sleep the whole night , prolly just goin nuts". Then I lied on my side and put my hand under my head, about 2-3 mintes later i felt an urge to sit up on my bed again - i have no idea why! So i tried to do so! , BUT as i was sitting up the hand that was under my head felt like it was glued to it, and wouldnt come off... all the movements were so wavy and strange... i felt this static noise in my ears... whole body was vibrating.. I thought jesus..why is this happening to me. Next momnet my hand finnaly separated from my body and i managed to take a look on my bed - here i was incredibly shocked- i saw mysled sleeping - just like i described on the side in the same position. That was it ! I mean i knew I - was me! and i didnt know what to think anymore. I was scared and at the same time very excited (note - time lost its meanting, i couldnt say how long i was there). Then someting let me know - Its ok, dont be afraid ...so i tried to move and i kinda slipped down from the bed .. i coudlt even controll my speed of movement - cant say i was walking , better somthing was dragging me thru the room, i'd try to touch things but everything was happening so fast images were distorted! As i was moving forward, i would get more assured it wasnt scary at all. Finnaly i approaced my balcony and flew off of it ..and had an insanely nice trip all over my city - flying around, then i woke up in the same position on my bed.

After this happend, even tho i dont really know what to call it - i've read on some sites it was more OBE then a lucid dream.. but i started practicing more and more. And, when i went back to my home country(which all my dreams was set up in mainly as mentioned b4) for vacation - i had series of exactely same thing happening to me about 5 nights in row , but only if i'd stay at my grandfathers place. I dont see any connection, it seems as i had permission to do it there, of some kind..

Since i got back to Canada i had 2 or 3 of these experiences again.. hopefully there are more to come!

I tried talking to my friends about it - they told me to see psychatrist, or they'd tell me to take it easy... or just laugh at me.

I felt like sharing with all of you.

Thx for your patience, if you read the whole thing... couldn't put it in to fewer words, really hard to describe smth like that!

With respect - Andrei P.