Hey guys,

This is my first post here. Iv'e known about this site for a while, but I recently had my first lucid dream and decided that I should join the forums.

I have tried for a while now to try and have a lucid dream, but to no avail. I kept a dream journal for a while, but it seems like when I try and purposely remember my dreams, I can't ever remember them, but normally I remember my dreams most mornings. Yesterday I had my first lucid dream, but I don't know how it happened.

I was dreaming normally for quite a while before it happened. In my dream my family and I were swimming through a large body of water when we go to a very tall wall. We climbed the wall and on the other side was an office building. We hoped over the wall and someone in the building asked us to come into his office for a moment. As we were walking in, I thought to myself, in these exact words. "Screw it, I can do whatever I want." Then immediately after, "Oh my God, i'm having a lucid dream." That's when I started testing it out. I turned around and walked around, went into a bathroom, walked around some more and decided to see if I could make someone I knew appear into my dream by imagining a door before I turned a corner. It sort of worked. A door appeared, but when I walked in there were just two random girls. When I walked in I suddenly woke up. It was a pretty short experience.

Does anyone know how I suddenly had this lucid dream? I didn't do anything to try and make it happen, it just did. Also, what are some good beginner tips for me to try it again?