Lucid last night

[xrayspecs]

Hi, this is my first post everyone so hello and I'll give you the background on my interest in the subject. Over a year ago I had my first lucid dream without really knowing what it was. I remember I was on a bus with my girlfriends son and suddenly thought 'Am I dreaming?'. Even though I knew nothing on the subject I tried to put my fist through the back of the seat I was on and it went through. I realised I was dreaming, got really excited and ... woke up. This incident made me interested and I wanted to find out more and I discovered lucid dreaming. I started to read a little on the subject but didn't get far and the only other experience I had was a terrifying false awakening where I couldn't see or hear properly and was convinced I was dying. Anyway I had other things going on in my life and so exploring lucid dream was put on the shelf. Then, a month or two ago I started looking into it again. I googled lucid dreaming and found this site, I bought some books on the subject and I began to keep a dream diary. I was so interested in the subject and was recording dreams in my diary whenever I could but I kept having periods up to five days where I was remembering nothing and this was getting me frustrated. I had read that I needed to be remembering at least one dream every night in order to progress and I just could see it happening. My interest was starting to wane as I thought I'd hit a brick wall. Then, last night happened! I've been feeling off for a few days and I had to leave work early as I was shattered. I got back home and passed out on the couch all afternoon. I woke up around six and had a normal evening still feeling a bit rough and went to bed at my normal time, then it began. I woke up three times, the last time being half past two, and each time I clearly remembered the previous dream. Not only that but the last one had been lucid! I won't go into all the details but quite a bit into the last dream I woke up and couldn't move. 'Right' I thought 'I've read about this, it's just sleep paralysis and it'll go in a minute or so'. It was then that I noticed a spider in the room that was the size of a dog! I quickly realised I was still dreaming and started to wake myself up in panic but I only got halfway before thinking 'Hang on, I'm lucid in a dream, this is what I've been trying for!' so I stopped myself waking up and changed the scene by spinning. I did a bit of low flying and was colouring underneath me in red and black as I went, I walked around a town square at night wondering what to do and I met a girl and ... Well, I was lucid probably about five or ten minutes before my dream fooled me into forgetting I was dreaming but I remember doing reality checks by looking at my hands and my watch. I also remember trying not to get too excited so I didn't wake up. I'm so glad I did research on the subject. In the one dream I remembered about sleep paralysis, false awakenings, reality checks, staying calm and spinning. This has really got me thinking I have a chance now and it's got me very interested again. So, hello to everyone and if anyone has any comments or advice then please feel free to add them.