I have decided to join this site after years of lucid dreaming and only just discovering through searching the Internet, what it actually is! I have been doing this for as long as I can remember - I used to have a nightmare about a horrible man catching me then one day I realised I was dreaming and made myself fly away. Ever since then I have had lucid dreams, many of them - at least 4 times a week. I also have lots of false awakenings. Last night was a particularly busy night for me which spurred me to join this site today. I remember trying to work out in my dream if I was dreaming or not and doing the usual tests of trying to touch things, pinch myself, to see if I could experience pain / have a sense of touch. Weirdly last night for the first time I was pretty convinced that I could experience pain. Is this even possible? I did some other tests within the dream - turning suddenly to see if the scene changed - it did so I knew I was dreaming. The "feeling" thing really freaked me out so I stopped the dream quickly (close my eyes and tell myself to wake up). Has anyone else experienced this? I have never really talked about this with anyone before as those I have look at me like I'm crazy so please forgive me if I'm explaining really normal lucid dream stuff!