Hello, this is my first post, so I'll try and make it relatively painless for everyone. I've been trying to Ld for the better part of a year now, ever since I first heard about the phenomenon on Coast to Coast AM. I've had limited success so far with controlling my dreams, but I have managed to have several lucid dreams, but they have generally been short and fleeting. However, the longest, most vivid LD I've had to date also has to be the single most frustrating thing I've had happen to me while I was sleeping! Any feedback would be apreciated, thanks in advance. Here goes:

I was walking to school, but instead of heading to law school, where I'm currently at, I was walking to my old High School. However, once I got there and went inside, it was the interior of my old elementary school! As I was walking around, I became puzzled at my location, and began to question if I was dreaming or not.

Almost as soon as I began to think that way, I woke up in my bed (still in the dreamstate). I walked to the bathroom and turned on the light-switch, but of course the light didn't come on. At that moment I felt a looseness in my mouth, and felt a few of my teeth fall out. Immediately, I thought "this is one of the most common dreams, I must be dreaming!" I was excited because I had recently met a young lady who I was very interested in, and wanted to approach in my dreams as kind of a practice.

I decided, just to be safe, to perform a few reality checks. Here's the frustrating part: I did three different RC: checked my digital watch, counted my fingers, and read text. I passed all three! At this point, I couldn't understand, I was sure I was in a dream, so I tried the light switch again. This time, the lights came on. As you can imagine I was pretty frustrated by now, and decided "to heck with it, I MUST be in a dream, so I'm going to float in the air to prove it!" Needless to say, I was unable to make myself leviate. After trying my RC's once more, I gave up, decided that I was indeed in "reality", and got in the shower. I woke up a moment later, frustrated and annoyed at such a wasted oppurtunity!

Again, any comments or insight would be appreciated. Thanks!