I've been lurking these forums and attempting to lucid dream for approximately 3 weeks now. Up until last night, i've had little success, Although i'm still not sure if last night was a success or not.

In my dream I was at a mates house in a suburb called Sunrise and decided I was going to go to the shops for a bite to eat. As I left his house, I turned down a street and around the corner and then realised I was in a suburb called Marcus Beach which was approximately 6 or 7km away. So I was quite confused at this point, when all of a sudden my mate (who's house I was previously at) turns around the corner and was walking over to me. It was only about 5 seconds after realising I was in Marcus Beach and my mate coming over that I said to myself "This is so weird, I must be dreaming." So I proceeded to do a reality check by holding my nose and trying to breath. Although I already suspected I was dreaming I still was suprised to be breathing through my nose while closed off. I said loudly "I'm dreaming!" My mate was still standing about 2 paces away from me and said "Thats right!" (As of now i'm still confused about if he was there to help me achieve my first lucid or was just a coincidence) So at this point, I'm extremely excited that I am dreaming and just imagined myself laying in my bed. I found it extremely weird that I could be standing here right now and laying in bed at the same time. So after that another friend drives by and happens to pick us up and all I can think of was that I was dreaming. All I seemed to do in my lucid experience was just think and ponder about how excited I was and various things about lucidity such as me still laying in bed at the present time. After this things just seemed to continue as normal and just seemed to be a very normal dream after about 5 minutes of being lucid and thinking.

The weird part about my whole dream was that in waking life, all I can think about is all the cool things I want to do while lucid, such as flying, transforming, teleporting, imagining scenarios and so forth. But in my first lucid dream I didn't even think about doing a single one of those things. This particular night I actually had an alarm set for 4.00am to attempt a FILD. Although I never woke up during the night so I must have slept through it.

So my main question to you all is:
-Was this a lucid dream if I realised I was dreaming yet failed to do anything different?


I'm quite excited about lucid dreaming now as I seem to have had some success, however slight it may be. I can't wait till my next one!