I remember some strange experience I had last fall, when I wasn't really into lucid dreaming as much, but had lurked around this site and read a lot of the materials. I was sleeping over at a cousin's house and woke up in the middle of the night; I just remember seeing the room around me and thinking with 100% positivity, "I will now enter a dream." The room began to melt and it felt like everything was swirling around me and I was falling through the bed. Next thing I knew I was in a dream, partially lucid; of course, I wasn't experienced at maintaining lucidity and so I soon got lost in a normal dream.

But overall it was a really weird experience that I haven't been able to duplicate thus far. Any thoughts on what exactly happened that night?