Last night I was having a strange dream. I ended up going outside, and seeing my family at an outdoor table in my backyard. My sister was holding one of our cats. She's a huge cat lover. She had a knife and cut the cat's face off (horrible, I know) and continued petting it. That's when I realized I was dreaming.

Now lucid, I kind of just let my mind wander and I ended up in a random house with some random dream characters. I can't really remember much from this part, but I remember eventually just deciding to try flying, and surprisingly I was able to without a problem. I just floated up in the sky for a while.

I remember trying to wake myself up just to test if I was really dreaming or not, as I wasn't very deeply lucid, and I had a very hard time waking myself up, I would end up trying to yell at myself "Wake up!!", but it would never work. A few times, I thought I had awakened, but I was back in the same setting as my first dream, sitting in my bedroom with an eerie feeling.

This was a great experience, and I hope to have more. I'm still curious how I was so successful at gaining lucidity, as whenever I have one of those rare "Ah ha, I'm dreaming!" moments, I immediately wake up. I also only had gotten 5 hours of sleep, and I could not wake myself up from the dream now matter how hard I tried.

Thanks for reading!