I am new to this site and i wanted for sometime know to share my experience and get some advice, or just opinions. I had my first lucid dream when i was young, i think i was about 13 years old. At that time, i didn't know if this thing i was able to do had a name or what it was exactly.. This first dream was really intense and i remember it vividly to this day: I found myself in the middle of nowhere, in a place with a lot of mirrors and many people walking around, talking to one another, when i suddenly realized (i don't know how) that i was dreaming. I instantly felt thrilled and thought to myself: ok i'm in a dream, let's see if and how i can prove it! i had the idea to transform someone there into someone else. The only person i could think of at that time was Cindy Crawford (!). I grabbed a random person out of the bunch and looked at him/her, then closed my eyes and imagined the face of the model. Opened my eyes and there she was! From that day on i had lucid dreams almost every night and day by day my powers grew stronger. I remember asking people if they could do what i' ve been doing or what is this ability called but back then nobody knew. My family members, my friends and the kids from school never had this type of dreams and didn't seem interested to be honest, so i just continued lucid dreaming without sharing anything. The years passed and i continued to lucid dream without any effort or techniques and, after each dream i felt more sure of myself in my dreams and could do more and more things with my mind. After some time i read an article about lucid dreaming in a magazine and could FINALLY give a name to what i've been doing for years. Some years ago, i thing it was in 2009, i started reading about lucid dreaming in forums and learning new things i could practice, like going through mirrors to some other side of my mind, or examining what my dream characters are made of by looking really close at them. I was really excited. Then one night, i go to sleep and experience something new for the first time: the dream within a dream. I became lucid in my first dream, then go to sleep again, and find myself in a long road. I quickly realize that this too is a dream and remember how i was dreaming before, where i was, what i saw, and how i slept (once again) to find myself there. This second dream i remember was a lot "heavier", dark, and empty of people and of any kind of activity. I started walking in that empty road and then saw in the distance a bunch of kids. They were very young, i think about 7-8 years old. As far as i can remember there was 5 of 6 of them, walking towards me, talking to one another and laughing. I remember i felt scared of them and sensed that although they were kids, there was something adult and "evil" (in a way) about them. When they came close to me they formed a circle around me and stopped talking, they just stared at me. I then remembered what i had read on the lucid dreaming forums about examining the substance of my dreams and came really close to one of them to see what it was made of. I then saw that it was made of many illuminating spots, like stars. I had some personal issues at that time so i decided to ask them a question to, maybe, get the answers i wanted. I talked to them in English (although English is not my mother tongue). I asked a question and then one of them answered me. He was moving his lips but the voice came from the sky.I got my answer (it was somewhat of a riddle), and remember feeling that this answer came from someone who wasn't me - or my subconscious. I then woke up, not like i normally wake up, i just opened my eyes suddenly. After the dream, although i felt that i shouldn't talk to anyone about it i did. It was so vivid and so "real" and weird that i just couldn't keep it to myself. After that day i stopped lucid dreaming. Not only that, but i stopped remembering any of my dreams and when i did, they were just too "heavy" and blurry. It is 7 years since then and i had one or two lucid dreams but i have no powers anymore, i can't do the simplest thing. I want to lucid dream again and now, for the first time i decided to use the techniques suggested and have a dream journal. Has anyone had a similar experience? What do you think happened and i suddenly (in one night) lost the ability i've had since childhood? Sorry for the long post