Hi!! I guess I should mention Iīm a newbie at this but I have been trying this lucid dreaming buisness for some time. I was very confused about what it meant having a lucid dream until a few nights ago when I finally managed to fall back into a dream I was having. I was following some person before I woke up and during my morning routine of feeding the cats the dream was still very vivid in my head as if I was on a mission so I went back to bed and only had to close my eyes to get back into the thin alleway of some dusty town. It seems like it could have been an old egyptian or west asian town with old stone buildings and tons of people. Falling back into the dream I got a lot more out of the people around, so much more real, having conversations not paying attention to me. So I continue following this person from before which became a multiple ammount of people from my past but ends up blurry when he or she saw me. He\she lead me to a basement where i tried staying focused on the surroundings and what i was doing but eventually a small fuzzy hamster made me loose focus and drift out again.
This egyptian, eastern eropean town comes back to me a lot, some times with fully "living" people and other times itīs full of dead alive ones. The feeling of the town is always the same aswell as the colours.

This is not the first time I have had such a dream, there has been many of them in the past but they have not been lucid as this. Many of them involve people who shifts shapes and faces and on two occasions the "shapeshifting" person has grabbed hold of my spine through my belly sending shocks into my body. It felt like electrical bursts and as longs as he\ she held it I could not get away or wake up which i normally have no problem doing once i notice itīs a dream. Upon the subject of people; I meet so many strange people in my dreams and itīs almost always when i meet someone else in a dream that i notice i am dreaming. Sometimes it is as if they are helping me. One of them taught me to shape the landscape infront of me. He told me I could do it and i did. But many times I meet my parents that simply are NOT my parents (cause that would be too sweet to be able to talk to them in my dreams) because they just act really wierd. Itīs been so many that I am certain that I keep being visited by someone or some people that want different things from me. I donīt think it just a simple case of paranoia.

But the dreams never did feel as intense as they did the other day for the few minutes i followed this "test subject" that might just have tricked me with the hamster. Iīve read tons of stuff that are meant to help out in trying to stay lucid but it jsut seems iīm a bit of a drifter. If thereīs anyone that has some good advice on how to stay in control iīd much appreciate it. Iīm a little bit tired of being "tossed" around so much in my sleep. Iīve read that one shouldnīt fix ones gaze on anything but keep drifting with it... and for some reason i always end up in places with no lightswitches or clocks or electrical appliances at all. I keep a journal which has helped a lot to remembering my dreams a little better but it doesnīt help me much in my dreams so far.

This is a great forum, read some posts but so far I donīt have much to add as help myself but I am happy to see so many dreamers!