well its Newbie zone, so there can't be a better place to start of with my first message...

I will explain a little background first, before I get on to how I ended up here. Hopefully some of you could shed some light on a few questions I have.. Thank you in advance.....

Well I am now 33, edging towards 34 and I have been very much into my dreams ever since I can remember, I don't know how many people I have bored with my dream stories over my life time... lol
and I have been one of these people who has so wanted to keep a dream diary.. many times I have started only to fail within days, but it was something I was always going to do.. Someday...

And now that someday has come for me, and for nearly a week now I have my first dream diary in progress......
What happened was just over a week ago I went to bed as normal, and I went through this unbelievable dream were I felt as if I was controlling it, it was just to real to understand and the first time I had such a dream... anyway first thing I was on the internet trying to search what I had went through that night.. All I kept stumbling across was lucid dream websites... I must have only spent 3 hours of searching.. and to be honest I didn't believe that what I went through was true that I had a lucid dream.. but I still found all what I had read totally fascinating.. I didn't even know what a lucid dream was until then...

For the next two days I thought about it alot, but didn't do much more research... But then 3 nights after my first lucid dream, I then had an LD for the 2nd time, and this was such an unbelievable experience...Never before have I had such a long and vivid dream were I was able to control it and do things as and how I wanted to do them... "I remember being so excited within my dream that all I did during the dream was to explore and find out as much information as I could, I even had a dream within that dream of which I found very odd.. Anyway the next morning I started my dream diary, and it took quite a few hours to get down all the information that I saw and done during that LD.
Since then I have had another 3 lucid dreams and each one has become even more weirder and vivid than the last. And so everytime I wake up I just have to write down all this information. But so far my LD have been all about me finding out information so I could write it all down later. Obviously with every spare moment I have I am reading websites gaining even more information for my LD. But not only that I am also having plenty of normal dreams, but these dreams have become well lets say so detailed that this morning I spent over 4 hours writing out my dream and yet that was only with points.. And that dream only lasted 1 and half hours... Its as if now everytime I hit the pillow I am either in LD or I have the most vivid normal dream that one can imagine....
So I abit confused to say the least.

really trying to keep this as short as I can...

anyway some questions I hope I can get some help with.....
1. My dreams on average last about 1 and half hours, I have about 4 a night, each time I wake up I write down as much information as possible, even if I keep it short on average I spend 2 hours after each dream writing down facts... My question is, this can't be normal can it? I mean this last week all I have done is dream and write dreams.. my normal life has disappeared, and yet I know that after every night, my dreams are becoming longer and more detailed. even now after 16 hours I still have my last dream fully detailed in my head, still so much more to write down about it.. but I am just lost for time.. what should I do?

2. I have done alot of research and read up on so many techniques, I even tried WILD the other night, and was so close to it as well. but that did last seconds. Which techniques should I really try as there are just so many, its getting ever so confusing?

3. I have always suffered from bad sleeping due to lots of worries, this has stopped totally as well... I am asleep within minutes.. This can't be normal can it?

4. Also i am having a dream within a dream quite often too, is this common and is there any information on this that could help me?

5. [font=Arial]and last thing for now before I end up writing another book... Most Techniques I have read state that the best time to LD is when you have had a 5-6 hour sleep, and then after that LD is easier to get to... I have tried this and it doesn't work, as like I have mentioned I can LD within minutes of putting my head on that pillow...am I doing something wrong, or is this pure luck.. or what.. I would love any comments on this...

Well thanks again.. I am hoping if I find the time that is to spend more time on these forums... Sorry though for the long one.....