New poster & odd dream experience

[rlaitila]

hey all, first i would like to introduce myself. ive been poking around the forums for a while and attempting to experience a lucid dream. im actually typing this just after waking from a very short semi-vivid dream. I'm not fully up to speed on the terminology but i hope someone might be able to give me some insight into what this latest experience was all about. so here i go. Part 1. I went to sleep tonight attempting to imagine a scene. for all intensive purposes, the first image that came into my head was a road at nightime, with trees on both sides. My goal was to imagine a static scene and produce detail. every time i would imagine the scene and would see it within my head, i would open my eyes involuntarily . Each time i attempted to create the image it would get more vivid. I don't remember how i slipped into the actual dream, but i think by trying this technique (i dont know what its called) i may have produced a semi-lucid dream Part 2. At this point i believe i was dreaming. I was sitting at my computer and heard some noises coming from the kitchen. The lights were on in my house. i looked down the hall and could see shadows. it turned out to be my room mate. he walked down the hall laughing and was pointing at me with both hands. and if i can remember right, he said "whats up man!". this part of the dream i don't believe i was lucid. Part 3 (the lucid experience) This part is quite perplexing. all of a sudden, i was driving my truck down the freeway and got stuck behind someone hauling a trailer. i went to pass on the left but for some reason i was unusually close to the other vehicle, almost passing through it in a way. i thought to myself that this is not right. At that point, i looked around me to check for other vehicles and found 2 vehicles on my left again unusually close to me. In this part of the dream, i told myself i must be dreaming. And this is what happend: Part 4 all of a sudden, the semi-vividness of Part III started to fade, and fade quickly! i had complete control for a few seconds as i tried to avoid hitting the other vehicles on the road, but my vision just kept getting blurrier and blurrier untill my vision was completely black. then i was 'stuck' in my head. i could hear myself telling myself to "wake up!" and a intense vibration sensation. again my vision was completely black. Then i awoke into a semi-consciousness. I could 'feel' the bed i was laying and could hear the sounds of my room fans, and had some form of vision, but everything was extremely blurry. again, i was telling myself to "Wake Up!". I remember specificly trying to remove my blanket but having trouble moving and getting up. then BAM! i was awake. i felt slightly frightened when that happened. i just layed there, calmed down. and realized how awesome all of that just was! sorry for the long post. i believe this to be my first lucid experience of a sort. i got right up and came here to dreamviews to share with everyone. please if anyone feels up to it, maybe someone has some insite as to what level of dream this may be. and explain any terminology associated with what i did/experienced. Thanks. EDIT: after reading my post, i realize how bad my grammer must be this early in the morning -Regan