Hi, I'm (somewhat) new here, and have actually had a few brief lucid dreams in the past.

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Hi, I'm Alex. I've visited the sight in the past, and tried out a lot of the tutorials, and when I first started didn't have any success. I would spend hours trying to lay completely still (a WILD technique I heard about), I did this at least 5 nights before giving up (to be fair I wasn't using the WBTB technique with this). So after all the failures I stopped trying and went on with my life. A week later I had a false awakening, got out of bed and tried to flip a light switch, which didn't work, and I was trying to figure out what happened when I remembered what others had said about light switches in dreams, and became lucid. I didn't do much, just looked out the window (which was pretty cool) and then went downstairs to explore, and tried to have sex- in the middle of which I woke. I had another dream, again I was in my room, only this time I couldn't get out of the house when I tried, and no one in the house could help me. In my third dream (from a couple nights ago) I tried to fly, and use other powers, which I had difficulty with. In both I can't remember how I became lucid. I remember that the dreams were very vivid, but after a few minutes I wouldn't be able to remember it in such great quality. Each time, I would realize when I started to wake up, and try to fight it, but would always end up awake (and very frustrated). I should mention that I tend to stay up all night, resulting in me sleeping through the day, and that each time I had a dream I had been woken up earlier by someone in the house, and gone back to bed. I know this is something like the WBTB technique, but that those are usually helpful for WILDs, and my lucids had all been DILDs. So, anyway, I thought I'd come back to the forums and give it another go, try some more techniques, and figure out how to make the dreams last longer.