Just wanted to let you guys know that the other night I had my first real LD. I had been having a lot of trouble staying in the dreams after attaining lucidity, but the other night I finally did. I realized I was dreaming and started to feel like I was going to wake up, I just closed my eyes and imagined that I was sliding down a long dark tunnel and that at the end of the tunnel was my dream world. Strangely enough, after a few seconds of sliding, I saw the end of the tunnel coming and I slid out and into a room. All the colors were so cool and everything was so vivid. I saw a window and decided to fly out of the window. I flew through a closed window and started flying up into the trees. However, I couldn't maintain the flight I would just kind of float up to a point and start to come down again. If anybody can give me some tips... I think it's just that I need to practice more and my brain needs to realize that I can fly in the dream. Overall my dream was about 5-6 minutes.
I was starting to think that I was never going to have a significant LD. So for all you others who are starting to lose hope, just keep trying and eventually you will get it!!!