Thread: My 1st LD!

Yes, it's another one of those 'first LD' topics, but...

After doing WBTB (being awake from 4:30 to 5:00 am), I went back to bed. 15 mins later, I still couldn't sleep and decided I needed to use the bathroom, so I did. I went back to bed again, and the next thing I knew, I was standing outside home, ready to catch a school bus to school in the morning. Except that it wasn't home, it was some other place, but I didn't notice that at the time. A few minutes later, I was on the school bus. When I was trying to use my MP3 player, I noticed it had become longer, with several unnecessary extra lines of text below the song name. I recognized that as a dream sign and at that point I noticed I was dreaming. However, it only lasted 10-15 seconds before I woke up and all that happened during the period I was lucid was the bus continuing to travel. I tried spinning to prolong the LD, but it didn't work. It was 5:37 am when I woke up, and since then I couldn't fall back to sleep again.

Although it was very short, I'm happy that I finally got my first LD after around 1 month trying to get one. So far, I've focused on trying to get one in the first place, but I haven't focused so much on how I could sustain one. I tried spinning, but could it be that I wasn't spinning properly? Also, last time when I posted, I mentioned concern about sleep paralysis. However, I don't think I experienced it either before the dream or after waking from it.