Hello,

I'm obviously new to this forum. I'm 17 years old, but I do recall many experiences with "lucid" dreams before. At that time I believed that me controlling my dreams was an arbitrary occurence that happend to other people just as often. I remember that a few years ago I would have mutiple nightmares set in different scenarios and whenever I didn't like the situation I was in during my dream, I would realize that I was dreaming and blink really hard in the dream and I would magically be transported to another dream, usually another nightmare but I controlled my dreams. For a few weeks I would look forward to having those dreams because it was an exciting experience.

Yesterday night on the [adultswim] website someone posted a link to his website. I read through it and learned an abundant amount of information. I used the techniques that I learned that very night such as repeating "When I wake up I will remember my dreams" before I fell asleep, during my dream the car I was driving stopped functioning which is when I decided it was a dream, I then became distracted and continued to soulessly go through the motions of the dream, until I saw a floating eye. The eye wasn't gruesome, by any means, in fact it was somewhat cartoonish, which is when I wholeheardly decided during the dream that IT WAS A DREAM. Like this website said, however, I became overly excited and woke up.

When I woke up I went backwards in my dream and remembered all of it (which I suppose would technically be aproximately 3 dreams).

Assuming this counts as my first "lucid" dream, I wrote it down as my first entry. Did I really have a "lucid" dream? It seems to me that this is my first induced L.D. but what do more experienced lucid dreamers have to say? Are these immediate results typical, or am I simply being overzealous?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.