New lucid dream seeker

[Armistice]

Hello, everyone! I was referred here by a member of one of my other forums I frequent (too much actually, lol), and so have been lurking the last 2 days and reading up When "lucidity" was brought up by the member, I thought it was "vivid", but guess not. After learning about lucid dreams, I can only recall 2-3 that I've had, which I believe were DEILD. 2 were more nightmares. I think I may have had a 3rd, but I can't actually remember. For the 2, one was someone tried to break into my house, or something(can't recall exactly). They ended up leaving, but my dad went onto the porch to make sure they left, I was behind him, and one guy walked up to him and shot him point blank . Something then triggered in my mind that I could wake up if I wanted, but for some reason kept my eyes closed. I was able to continue dreaming for at least 10 seconds. I think I was in high school when I had it The other was when I was younger, elementary school maybe. Strange dream. If anyone's been in a warehouse, you know all the piping on the cieling? Well I was driving a monster truck on them(small monster truck though). Ended up in my room somehow and this nasty rat bit my index finger and it's teeth sank in deep and I screamed and started hitting it against the floor and wall and door. I then realized I could wake up if I wanted, but kept my eyes closed to see if the rat would detach itself. After 10sec or so, I woke up Both times I was more watching the event unfold and letting my mind control what happened next, but I was aware I could wake up and end the nightmare(The thought in my mind was "I can wake up," but not, "I'm dreaming"). Are my 2 experiances valid DEILDs? I've also had one dream twice. Crazy phycadelic spot background and a miner 49er kind of guy. All I remember 2 nights ago I tried RBing, but really did nothing Last night I tried SP. I think I felt the vibrations, and slow waves. Also started to see HH (have had this happen many times but think I was jsut really tired), then they started to turn blue and green and almost looked like laying next to a tree looking at the sky so tried to HIT, but it didn't pan out. I never got "heavy", but did try to lift my finger and was almost difficult (then would try once more and it's like it was let go and I could do it), so I'm not sure if I did get to SP, or I was on the brink. I do have a fan that runs so don't know if the sound would interfere, but the more relaxed I got, the less I heard it and the more I heard my thoughts run by(no whoshing sounds, though I THINK I may have heard my dad in another room[but he was asleep], not sure), so wasn't scary for me at all One last thing. When trying to go to sleep sometimes, I don't think I'm anywhere near SP, but my head feels like it will slowly rotate and my whole body then feels like it's slowly rotating. Kind of a cool feeling. Is that part of getting into SP, or could it just be my head acting funny? I know this is kind of long, but it's really intriguing to me now and thought I'd share my experiances I hope to be able to find a way to achieve lucidity. SP seemed to be working pretty well last night, so will try it again. Have been doing RCs throughout the day as well (finger into palm, count fingers, look at text/digi clock[whichever is around at the time]). Hope to learn a lot here. Looks like a great site