Hola. I'm kinda new to this (even though I did try a little a couple of years ago). I've been trying for a week now (since one night I came across this site) using the beeping watch thing (every hour it beeps I ask myself "am I dreaming?") and last thursday I had (at the end of the night) a tiny lucid dream!!! It was kinda wierd. Only lasted a few seconds. I noticed I was losing it so I started spinning (as the tutorials suggested), but this didn't work and I woke!

I had another last night. Funnily enough, these were the only two nights I actually woke up after a dream and wrote down my dreams, then after the second one (at about 6 in the morning) I went to sleep saying in my head "I will have a lucid dream, be able to control it, and remember it"... ...this ended up just the word "lucid" as I couldn't concentrate on the whole lot!

This morning's one lasted longer: I woke up in a strange room (like I slept with someone, but was so drunk I couldn't remember), and on waking I realised it's a dream, so I tried my best to concentrate and not wake up. At first I didn't want to move, incase I actually moved in reality and started to sleepwalk... !! But I got up and realised I was only in my underwear - So I looked for my clothes and that became my demise!! I concentrated on getting on a pair of jeans so much because they became stuck (this happened in a previous dream with a t-shirt) that I woke due to the frustration of it and claustrophobia!!

If anyone has any hints as to how to overcome this issue (if anyone else has ever had it?) cos it's bloody annoying and ruins my dreams!

More importantly I'm quite surprised that I've managed to have a lucid dream TWICE in such a short time, when there are people trying for years without luck! Is this normal? And how much better will it get? The one last night was amazingly realistic (or so I remember thinking), but the memory isn't! Oh, and how much longer are they expected to be?

WS