Hi paigeyemps! Thanks for the response. I guess I forgot to mention, in the days before I had that first lucid dream, I had been practicing that technique where you make "reality checks" at certain times while you're awake, in the hopes that it will transfer into the dream. I don't remember actually doing a reality check before I came lucid, but I'm guessing since it was on my mind so much, I remembered it in my dream. I have no idea why I haven't tried doing that again. I always mean to, but I end up forgetting to do the reality checks. In the second dream, I hadn't been thinking about lucid dreaming for awhile, so that really was out of nowhere. I'm wondering, since the dreams were similar, if my mind had already determined that I would become lucid while talking to the people, or maybe it was a coincidence that the second dream was similar to the first, and that's the whole reason I became lucid in the second one. I'll do some research on how to keep control if it happens again, but meanwhile, do you have any suggestions for doing so?