Hehehe!! Okay, anyways, I have been a constant lurker for a while, and I had some questions that I haven't found answered yet. So, this is my first post! Hurrah! Here are my newbie questions:

1) In a lucid dream, when you first start, how is it started? I mean, in my non-lucid dreams, I just go with the flow, y`know? My non-lucid dream could automatically have me watching T.V. or whatever. But in a lucid, do you first start out in a random place, and THEN do what you want? Or are you standing in darkness until you start to imagine things?

2) How long is your dream? See, you know how you get these really short dreams that seem very, very short, but when you wake up you've actually slept for, like, eight hours? I mean, do lucid dreams seem like those really short dreams, or are they so that they actually feel like eight, real-life hours? Is it possible to 'fast forward' dreams?

3) When you dream a lucid dream, do you feel like it is real? For example, as I sit here in my chair, is this how a lucid dream is: realistic? Or does it feel like a non-lucid dream, only that you can tell you are dreaming?

4) Can you dream yourself as a cartoon, instead of real life? It would be fun to have an anvil land on you, I think.

5) How is it possible NOT to get excited? I'm the type of person who, if they just had a lucid dream, would start screaming and jumping up and down? I mean, is it possible to not get excited after you start flying?

6) When you fly, do you actually feel like you are flying? Like, when you fly, do you get that rollercoaster feeling, when your stomach feels like it is jumping up and down? Or do you simply feel normal, aside from the fact that your feet aren't on the ground?

I once had a dream where I was riding the Loch Ness Monster, and I jumped off. I swear, that feeling of jumping off was so scary. I felt like I actually had jumped off, with my stomach jumping, the breeze in my air, and I had that rollercoaster feeling.

7) If you cannot get hurt, do you still feel things? Like, if a train hit you, I guess you wouldn't feel the pain, but would you still feel fear like you would if it was in real life?

8 ) Say you do get hit by a train. Wouldn't that fear of getting hit and just the scary thought of it excite you and wake you up?

9) If I dream, say, I'm in school, would my classmates do what I want, or would they act as if I was really in school? Like, if I passed a note to one of my friends, and they respond, would they respond something that I imagined, or a realistic respond that the real-life person would write?

Thank you in advance. I am one of those people who just have a bazillion questions!