I'd like to thank nightmare on elm street which led me to the wikipedia article and eventually here :p

I think i had my first real lucid dream the other night ( i kind of had one when i was about 10 but id never heard of lucid dreaming - i tried pinching myself like i saw on TV back then but it didn't have any effect).

Anyway i have a couple of questions...

When i was in my dream it seemed fairly real like a normal dream ... then i woke up and my drem recall (which is a bit sketchy) hardly let me remember any of it. If i can really improve my abilities will it seem any more realistic? Will i be as aware as i am in normal life in my dreams, and will my memory of the dreams afterwards be as clear as remembering what i did yesterday?

If i ever manage to have a shared dream, at what point does it become shared? (i realise this might even be a mystery to a lot of you, it seems quite rare) I dream of my real life friends a lot but they dont dream any of the same dream as me when i check ... if their having a seperate dream somewhere how could i "wake them up" to become lucid in my dream f their just a DC?

Cheers,
Jim