Thread: I finally did it... twice

Last night I had my first, and second lucid dream. It took me about 3 weeks since i first started. i spent several hours every day reading and practicing techniques and keeping a detailed dream journal. nice to see it payed off
my first LD was extremely short, i would say maybe 3 seconds, pretty much as soon as i became lucid i woke up. I fell back asleep and i had another one shortly after. the second one lasted about 5 min i would say. it was the most incredible/strangest feeling i've ever experienced. very cool. In my second dream i was about to try to float off the ground, but just before lift off i woke up. dam! my dream faded out so fast i didnt have a chance to spin, or rub my hands, it just went from super vivid to black and that was the end of it.
the interesting part for me is that in both dreams, i just out of the blue questioned if i was in a dream or not and then performed a reality check (poked my finger through my hand, and looked into a mirror) No dream signs appeared or non of my reocuring characters showed up it was just a random check for no apparent reason?? is this normal, or does it just happen to everyone once in a while? is this a method i should rely on to induce ld's everynight?

If anyone has had lucid dreams and are reading this, how long do your LD's last? whats a good ammount of time to be lucid? any tips on how to extend the length of my ld's??


thanks for reading