Thread: First LD, too excited and woke up immediately.

Had my first LD this morning (at least the first in years and the first since starting a program)... went to sleep at about 4am, had to go to a meeting at 9, for about half an hour, came back home and slept for a few hours (I don't normally do this, I usually sleep ~ midnight - 8am - 9am).

Anyway, I was having a really vivid dream where I was driving along a road with snow on it (its winter where I live and I ski a bit - had been reading about snow conditions before I went to bed the night before). Suddenly I came to an impossibly steep (but short) hill and thought to myself, "...it doesn't matter that its steep, I will easily make it up because I'm dreaming - hey I I'm dreaming!". I then got really excited, felt strong vibrations all over and worried that I was about to wake up - which I then did

Really happy about having a LD in only a couple of weeks of journaling and doing reality tests (and not being all too disciplned about it yet), but worried that I woke up so quickly, as I remember the last LD I had years ago (I've only had three in my life that I can remember) the same thing happened.

Any thoughts, advice on how to avoid getting too excited and waking up?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Cheers,
Dan