Hey folks, I just wanted to introduce myself and ask a few questions.

My name is Josue and I live in SoCal, I had heard a lot about LD before, but I was never really interested (I suppose I never truly considered the possibilities before). On Saturday night I watched Waking Life and it suddenly dawned on me that I'll bet that I could probably learn an awful lot about myself through this technique - and of course, what better question is there than Who am I?

Anyway, I read through a few sites that were trying to sell me gadgets and guides and seminars, but somehow I felt that that just wasn't the path for me. So, I searched some more and found this site. I memorized the basics and decided to begin a dream journal. I was amazed by the results, I woke up four times throughout the night and was able to recall four dreams in great detail.

Amazed at being able to do so much in just one night. I figured why not try for an actual LD last night. I was in the middle of a dream that was quite strange - almost like a salvia trip and I was getting quite scared. For some reason this prompted me to do a "mental reality check" as there was nothing for me to refer to physically. This all happened in an instant, I suddenly realized that it might be a dream since I couldn't remember smoking any salvia and then quickly realized that I was indeed dreaming.

Immediately the sound went away and everything turned black and white. I thought to myself, I'm going to lose it, I shouldn't have been so excited to realize what was going on, should have been more controlled. In retrospect, however, I don't blame myself, that's never happened to me before and I was understandably astonished! SO, I did the only thing I could think of, which was to start spinning and repeating to myself over and over that I was dreaming - all the while trying to focus on being anywhere else but in this scary dream. I'm not sure if I was really spinning though, because I seemed to be somewhat aware of my physical body in bed and "knew" that I couldn't really spin because I would spin off my bed. So I kinda just rolled back and forth in an effort to get some kinda movement going on without rolling off my bed.

I suppose it worked, because I suddenly found myself in another dream, but I lost all lucidity and got swept away in it.

My questions are:

A) Has anyone else around here had a lucid experience on their second night trying (or something relative to that), and if so, would you please PM me with any tips that you can think of to help me move forward a bit faster? I know this sounds like I'm being impatient, I suppose I am. I'm not sure if that something to be worried about... You all would know better than I.

B) What's the best way not to freak out and be all: "OMG, I'm dreaming and I KNOW IT! " and losing the whole thing?

Thanks

~ Josue