this is a story/question.

i just found this site tonight through 'stumbleupon' and am very interested/excited about attempting lucid dreaming. while reading the frontend of the site i recalled something that happened to me when i was about 15 years old (10 years ago). this is what i remember...

before i went to sleep, i was reading a hardy boys book in bed. once asleep i had an EXTREMELY vivid dream about it. i dont remember the actual dream all that well (it isnt that important, just what happened after the dream is). i will describe it as best i can.

i was with, or one of, the hardy boys. we were solving a mystery. we had found out 'whodunit' and i think, after confronting this person, we were trapped by them somehow. in a cave, or in a basement, something. all i remember was we were in danger.

at this point in the dream i woke up. i REALLY had to go to the bathroom. i went down the hall to the restroom and did my business. however, the dream kept going, at least it wanted to keep going. i can remember my mind was almost "tripping". i was in the restroom, rocking back and forth, in fear for my life. the whole time thinking i needed to come up with a way to escape, but i was kind of stuck in a loop. i couldnt seem to comprehend what i needed to escape from. it was like the dream was just holding onto my brain. i went back to my bedroom and lay back down. i was unable to go back to sleep for probably 30 minutes before i finally snapped out of it and realized what was "real" and then i laughed at myself. i went back to sleep and the dream never returned.

i probably did a poor job explaining what i went through. im not really sure what happened. i just know that i was awake, i knew i was awake. i dont think i really knew that my dream was a dream though. even though i woke from it into my own bedroom and got up and walked around in my house. i wasnt sleep walking. it was like even though i was awake and conscious, i wasnt really awake. it was strange to say the least.

does anyone know anything about this kind of thing? is it something that can happen when messing with lucid dreams?

lemme know what you think or if you have had anything similar happen to you.

thx
brad