Had my first lucid dream last night! At least one that I can remember vividly since realizing that there was such a thing. Without knowing it I have had them in the past but since reading about it and becoming more interested in them lately this one was much more exciting.

I was dreaming I was being chased by this armed group of thugs through this house I had never been in before. I was frantically trying to get out of the house but found myself constantly being faced with endless doors that I would have to hurry and unlock just to be faced by another door in the next room. I finally get myself outside the house and am confronted with one of these thugs. He tells me if I don't come back inside with him he will kill my little brother. I ask him if I can trade my life for my little brother and he agrees. So I go inside with him and find myself sitting on a couch surrounded by about 5 guys with guns. They are all laughing and somehow I know that the leader is about to shoot me. Suddenly I think...holy crap I'm dreaming!!!! I am now lucid and become so excited that I almost wake myself up! I calm myself down and stabilize the dream. At this point all fear has vanished. I look at the leader and say to him "I'm going to take that gun from you and shove it up your ass and there's not a damn thing you can do about it" I can't describe how cool it was to say this. So I get up take the gun out of his hand and shove it into his crotch. I tell all his buddies to get rid of their weapons or I will blow his junk off. They all comply and at that point I decide it's time to start experimenting with this dream. I ask the guy "what part of my consciousness do you represent and what is your purpose in my dream"? He doesn't answer me and just stares up at me with a pissed look on his face. I found that really weird and it made me uncomfortable. I look at him and say "I'm going to turn your hair blonde now" and low and behold his hair color changes right before my eyes! Im thinking holy crap this is cool. I decide to change his hair color to white but can't do it. I can only get it to change half way like he's fighting it or something. I get bored with this and decide I want to try to fly a bit so I fly around the room(more like glide) for a short time and stop so I don't freak out and wake myself up. In the past when I have tried to fly I always end up falling and waking myself up so I decided to quit and try something else. I decide I want to walk down the hall to a room with a closed door and open it to find the most beautiful woman in the world inside. I approach the door and open it only to find an average to below average looking woman at best. Not satisfied with this I close the door on her and say the same thing again. I open it to find a different girl who is only mildly attractive. I close the door and reopen it again to find her again but she looks a little better this time. I'm thinking to myself...I'm not having very good luck here but I decide to talk to her anyhow. I take her out of the room and bring her into what looks like a cafeteria. We sit at a table and are soon joined by Ben Affleck of all people. The girl tells me that she really likes the beach and has had a lot of men on top of her there...ummhhhh ok, thanks for sharing ho. Then Ben Affleck says to her, "I thought I recognized you!" I'm thinking this sucks, I finally get a decent looking chick and she happens to be a ho and Ben Affleck is trying to snake her away from me. I get up and go back to the girl supply closet and get me a more attractive less skanky girl. After opening and closing the door a few more times and a couple of girls later I finally end up with a pretty cute woman even though she's sporting an 80's hairdo. I realize this dream won't last much longer so I settle for her. I go into the bathroom with her and close the door. she unzips her pants to show me her underwear and body as if asking for my approval. I approve and as soon as things start to get interesting I feel myself waking up! Im NOT VERY HAPPY AT THIS POINT and try frantically to stabilize the dream. I look at my hands and they kind of get blurry and the dream starts to wobble and I wake up. DAMN!!! Just when it was getting good! I tried to fall asleep again and pick up where I started but have no luck.

I am so excited about having this dream and can't wait to have the next one and hopefully be able to try different things and control it better.