Thread: Newb with a question!

Hello all, im new to the community but have checked out the site various times. My friend got me into lucid dreaming around May. I bought a book written by Robert Waggoner and read the entire thing in a week. I feel i am pretty knowledgable on the topic and actually just wrote a research paper for my college english class. However i am yet to have a lucid dream! I think..let me explain. Since i first began reading the book until a couple weeks ago, my interest in the subject seems to have been enough to help my dream recall immensely. I now remember 2 or more dreams pretty vividly per night, to the point where i can remember almost all detail and get a lot written down upon waking. I also seem to be recalling dreams from weeks or months ago that i had completely forgotten. My latest experiences lead me to believe i am close to lucidity:

Last night in my first dream i recall having a horrible shoulder pain while dreaming. i informed my friend that i was going to health services to get some pain killers. I went there and got a couple medications and a shot that were supposed to help the pain. I returned to my friends dorm informing him i felt somewhat numb from the medication. Soon after i woke up with the same exact feeling in my arm that i had had in my dream, because i was lying on my side! It blew me away that this feeling carried into waking life and i could feel that same sensation while dreaming! Anyone had a similar experience?

My second dream took place at a neighbors house where i spent lots of time as a child. It feels like i know i am dreaming in all my lastest dream and have some control of what happens. A couple friends were outside and i told them i could fly. Nobody believed me, so all but one went inside. At this point i levitated into the air and found myself on the roof. I remember concentrating very hard for this to happen. Soon after i decided to try to change an object. Upon looking at a basketball and imagining it getting bigger, it slowly expanded to the size of an excercise ball. I then realized the one friend who was still outside was sitting on dirt. I layed on the ground and pictured growing grass underneath her. Lines of green carpet began to cross the ground in front of where she was sitting. She seemed amazed. I woke up soon after this. It was an amazing dream but its hard to know if i was lucid! It didn't quite feel as vivid as waking reality and i don't remember a certain point where i felt i became lucid. Any ideas as to whats going on?