A Weekend Lucid Dreamer

A couple of hours ago I read about Lucid Dreaming for the first time, and it instantly clicked with me. I have Lucid Dreams--sometimes controlled, somtimes not--almost every time I sleep in. I conciously put myself in the state, and I'm fully aware that I'm dreaming, but it very rarely happens outside of sleeping in. Let me go over the general time frame that I'm aware of:

2 to 4 AM - Fall asleep (A couple hours later than workdays)

7 AM - My body wakes itself up; this is around the time I normally awaken with an alarm. Usually when I wake up, a dream is interrupted. On a normal day I will remember this dream for a few minutes after conciousness, but I'm on a mad dash to get out of the door and I'll quickly forget it. However, on a weekend I can wake up at this point, and remember a dream for a couple hours, sometimes more. I have no dream log, and very rarely do I remember dreams other than the last one I had that night. However on most weekends I will opt to just close my eyes and go back to sleep, and slip right back into dreaming. This is the moment I gain lucidity.

7AM to NOON - When I choose to "dream-in," it feels like I nearly constantly dream from my initial waking to whenever I finally decide to get out of bed. Every 60-90 minutes I gain real conciousness and open my eyes just briefly, then quickly slip back into the dream I was just having. Eventually I feel satisfied and want to get back to reality, and I simply get out of bed. I remember the main points of the dreams I have in this manner, not perfectly, but well enough to outline the plot.

So I'm curious, would it be possible to apply this method to a normal night's sleep? It works without a hitch, as long as my body's internal clock is set to get up early. Also, I've never really tried, but how would I go about getting more control over the dream? I'm aware, so I imagine that's the hardest part there. Has anyone else heard of this type of dreaming, and is it common? Thanks for the input, and I look forward to researching more about this and honing it as a skill, now that I know there's resources like this site.

Hmm, well the main reason you have good luck with Lucid Dreaming when
you sleep in, is because REM period's are longer, the longer you sleep.
Plus your mind is more awake as well.

You should work on recalling all of your dream's better. then start
watching for dreamsign's, and doing reality check's durring the day.

then you should be able to have more Lucid Dream's, durring normal sleeping hour's.

Once you do that, learning dream control is just a matter of practice.

Welcome to Dream Views.:)