Hey everybody. I just registered on dv today...I am really glad I found your site, because I have been interested in dreams and how they work, etc.
Well just a few days ago I found a page on lucid dreaming. I had always thought about how awesome it would be to be able to control your dreams, so when I learned about LD's, I was pretty excided. I have experience lucid dreams before, but didn't know what they were..and I didn't take advantage of them, because I only remeber getting them a couple times before in nightmares..so I tried to wake myself up. Since they were in nightmares, I was really freaked out and all I wanted was for the dream to end. I realized I was dreaming so I tried to wake myself up by pinching myself, jumping of building, tried to kill myself a few times, etc. I didn't realize there was no danger.
So yesterday I asked myself throughout the day if I was dreaming or if I was in reality, then at night I tried the MILD technique...told myself I was going to remeber my dreams, thought about what I wanted to dream about, and told myself I was going to become lucid during my dream. I visualized myself flying. But I thought about something else, and couldn't get it out of my head. I thought.."What should I do if something freaky happens..like my closet doors open and someone comes out". Well..I dreamed just that..4-5 times actually that I remeber.
I dreamed that I woke up in bed, and my closet doors started opening, and an alarm was going off in my head. I was paralysed with fear and couldn't move...and I was shaking with fear. Then I remebered that I was dreaming, and told myself that over and over and I woke up. That happend at least 4 times that night, but I also had 1 good dream but, I didn't become lucid

So not a great dream for my first intended lucid dream. It stinks that I only become lucid in my nightmares, because I am too terrified to realize that I can't actually get hurt..all I try and do is wake myself up. So I am going to work on remembering that I can't get hurt, and that I should face up the scary part if I am not parylised.
I am kinda mixed about having dreams...I would love to have good lucid dreams, but the majority of my dreams are bad...like I will get stuck in a train track and I will hear the train coming...or I am in the woods with bears and lions, and my cell phone is dead, etc....so after I have 1 or more bad dreams in a night..I'm afraid if I try to have a lucid dream the next night it will be bad. If I can remeber that I can't get hurt, it wouldn't be so bad..So that's what I am going to work on.

My dream recall is pretty good...usually I remeber at least 1 dream a night. Sometimes I remeber as many as 4.

Thanks for reading... And if you have anything that you think I could do to have good lucid dreams please let me know.

Has anyone here experience OBEs? What are they like, like is it something you don't want to happen?