Hi everyone, I've just recently stumbled on your website and it brang back memories from July. And I just read your section on Wake-Intiated Lucid Dreams and I want to share a story and get your feedback.

In July my brother always woke me up when I was still tired...I noticed that I'd quickly fall back asleep and I would Always have a dream...Not knowing about Lucid dreaming I always thought I could control dreams without a dream journal or anything.

So in late July 2004 (like always) my brother wakes me up, I get up, and start falling asleep again...but during this I started to focus on "I will ride rollercoasters in my dream" and it was all black for a while, then It happened:

I started to fall asleep but I could still feel that I was awake, I was saying to myself (ok, this is a dream...I'm still awake though, I'm still awake over and over again in my head) I could feel that I was awake but I still had a dream and could control it. It was amazing...It was diffrent then a lucid dream becuase I was sure I wasn't asleep becuase I still was aware that I was still in bed.

I've done this 3 times since then but eventually gave up on it. Today I started keeping a dream journal and remembered this....could anybody say what happened? was this really a W.I.L.D.?

Thank you.