Was this actually a Lucid Dream?

[justafriend]

I've only tried lucid dreaming about three times.. never doing anything serious as in writing in a journal or anything of that matter. I basically only kept telling myself that I was dreaming over and over again. Even as I was falling asleep, I felt myself remembering what to say less and less. So here is how my experience went (this is going to be long, so please bear with me): First, I dreamed (grammar?) about the NBA basketball team the Detroit Pistons obtaining their all-star center, Ben Wallace, again. This was very random.. Suddenly, I was in my house thinking, "HUZAHH I DID IT!! Let's do this!" So I did a reality check, but I couldn't remember any except looking at a mirror. So I went to a usual mirror in the house and my face was messed up. At this sight I was scared and I could feel my heart pumping. But as soon as I remembered that it was easy to wake up I tried extremely hard to calm down, because I really wanted to stay in the dream. Then I saw my brother, and for some reason the only thing I remember was him telling me to wait for him because he had to go to the bathroom.. So I decided to look in a mirror again and I looked all right except for my hair was a different style. Then, I tried to fly.. thinking this was easy.. (I was wrong) I jumped up and then I just fell. The reason I gave up after this was I felt my mind telling me that it's impossible. I think this was a mind block, but being a newbie I didn't know what to think of it. Then I thought about driving a car. Being only 14, I never got to try before. For some reason though, I never though of just poofing inside a car I had to think, "Okay, when I go outside, I will have a car and drive it." When I went outside, I was trying very hard to think it's going to be there, it's going to be there.. And sure enough, I saw it. When I started to drive though, i guess I got too excited and I woke up.. After I woke up though, the first thing I thought was, "I did it!.. wow.." Then some half-frightening images came into my head that I just couldn't stop. It's like my head was going haywire and I couldn't stop the thoughts. For example, I saw my friend, but his eyes were shadowed in black and it was kinda freaky. But at the same time I knew I was awake and I was saying, just don't think like that.. its okay.. Then I felt it, and I was so surprised.. It's like my senses were recovered and I never knew they were gone. I felt a little pop and my ears were ringing. This time I knew I was awake, but I was awake before too.. I just know it.. And all the frightening images just went away. I didn't want to sleep again, because I was fearing having the images pop up.. So I had to lull myself to sleep. And that was it. Now these are my questions: -Was that actually a Lucid dream? I never actually remember having any sensing ability except for seeing. I never touched, smelled, or tasted anything. As for hearing things, I just can't remember what I heard, if I heard anything. -Should I stop doing this? Please be honest, because I know most people on this forum like LDing. The reason I ask this is because when I woke up I felt this very weird feeling that if I keep doing this something bad will happen. I'm not sure if anyone else feels this, that's just the way I felt. Also, I read somewhere that it isn't normal that kids my around my age (14) are able to LD. I was just wondering if this is in any way "unhealthy". Thanks P.S. that was way longer than I thought it would be...

[Licity]

You knew you were dreaming, so you were lucid. As far as we know, the only way lucid dreaming is dangerous if you have a mental illness that causes you to get confused between reality and dreaming. As far as it being bad for kids, I had my first lucid when I was twelve. Maybe the thinking is that kids that don't learn that reality and dreams are separate will develop such an illness. But usually, stuff like that comes from the people that believe lucid dreaming is EVIL SATANIC WITCHCRAFT. Besides, lots of people have lucid dreams as children and stop having them as adults. If I remember correctly, LaBerge himself had his first lucid dream when he was very young.

[justafriend]

oh.. thank you.. I guess I'm good to go then.