Hi all,

I just learnt about all of this and started to work on it 2 days ago. Anyways, both nights I remembered dreams evertytime I woke up except for once which is great because I barely ever remembered dreams before.(Once a week or once a month I might have been able to recall something in the past but that was it) Since I started I've probably remembered 6 or 7 dreams after waking up(although most I've forgotten now). I started writing last night in a dream journal however. My first dream was fairly normal(well not really) until the end when I think I was very close to going lucid:

Dream #1: I was doing homework and watching the Price Is Right for some reason. Anyways, it turned into a quiz show and the question in the showcase showdown was abouit the same stuff as in my homework. For some reason my mom was in the dream(she's about 1000km away right now) and she scolded me for not knowing the answer on the show that was something in my homework. Anyways, then I looked at the screen and this guy had won a car in the showcase showdown of Price is Right. He got in it and it blew up. But he was ok. Anyways, all of a sudden I'm not sure if it was him or me but I saw a New York Times newspaper on a forehead with New York Times showing in bold at the top and then I woke up saying "This is Fake". I figure I was very close to lucidity when I said that but instead I woke up. Weird feeling I can say.

The second dream, and this is the one that backfired:

Dream #2: I've been playing a lot of Battlefield 2 gaming which is a war simulatior where you capture areas of a map with a flag. Anyways it was part of my dream. I was in the dream and I noticed that someone was going to die on the field near a flag. But for some reason I was watching either myself or someone else dreaming all this in my dream. I convinced the dream me or whoever was dreaming this scene to go lucid and get in there and save this person and they did. In other words my dreamself or whoever it was sleeping in my dream was the one that went Lucid. Does this make any sense and what does it mean?


If anyone has insights please let me know. I'd love to hear em. I just ordered the book Lucid Dreaming in 30 days and should have it by Thursday I'd think. Also, I have a few questions:

How often do people go lucid on average? 5 or 6 times a year? once a week? Sometimes everynight?

Also, I woke up at about 8am this morning after about 8.5 hours of sleep and I decided to try sleeping again and everytime I had my eyes closed I started to have pictures flow through my mind just about like sleep but I was still conscious and awake pretty much.(like on the verge of sleep) yet I could control things. I take it this is just daydreaming right? Because I felt like I was in the third person view and it wasn't anything spectacular.

Finally, how real does it feel when you have a lucid dream? If you're walking in your house does it feel just about exactly like it would if you were really doing it in real life? One thing I find with my dreams is they always feel so dark(the picture I mean) it feels like it's far away, the visuals suck in other words. Do lucid dreams change that in the sense that everything becomes more realistic?

Thanks a lot in advance,