Congratulations! Welcome to the club of Lucid Dreamers! Its always great to hear about people having their first lucid dream! Mine was increadible short to at first, but they get longer. And i know what you mean about the dream fading out so fast that you dont have a chance to save it, dont worry thats normal when you begin, as you advance in your lucid dreams you will start to notice it sooner and it will last longer, long enough for you to recognize it and save it.

Quote Originally Posted by Cguy View Post
i just out of the blue questioned if i was in a dream or not
yeah that sound just about right too me. most of the time its like just like you said, I just question it out of the blue like totally random. This is what I think it is, you are now starting to understand what it feels like to be in a dream and are starting to be able to tell the difference between the waking world and dream world. Like Im to the point that when I realize that Im in a dream I dont even do reality check anymore because I can just tell by the way it feels that Im in a dream, and i just look around and tell because usually Im not in my bed sleeping when I become lucid, Im somewhere totally random, not in my bed. a lot about lucid dreaming (especially with WILD) is how things feel...even more so with OOBE's if you should choose do go down that route.

how long my lucid dreams last varies, it depends on what Im doing in the and if i remember to keep telling myself "im dreaming", and how exciting I make it (the more exciting, the harder to control)

as far as what method you should use I would stick with what your doing, because it obviously worked. just keep practicing that method and make it even stronger! it will become much more reliable that way than if you change it.

Good luck! Congratulations!