Hey guys. This is my first post here and I just wanted to share my experience with others.

I'm one of those who once had an awesome lucid dream without trying and hence got interested in the art of lucid dreaming. I tried to induce a lucid dream without any results for over a half year. I tried many methods, such as binaural beats and different WILD techniques.

About 2 weeks ago, I decided to start to do reality checks because WILDing was certainly not for me. I also tried to keep a dream journal but it seemed near to impossible because of my study and sleeping schedules. About 1.5 weeks after I started reality checking I had a dream where I was at my friends house and someone rang the doorbell. I went to open the door and there was a little girl. I kneeled down to talk to her and her eyes suddenly changed from green to blue. At this point I questioned if I was dreaming and looked down at my left hand. I had 6 fingers and I realized it was a dream.. But as soon as I did - the dream collapsed.

At the time I was frustrated but also glad because I had improved.. In reality, this dream was an amazing stepping stone for me. After it I have been doing reality checks in all the dreams I can remember.. Which I'm very thrilled about.

Last night, I remember waking up atleast 5 times and having atleast 5 different dreams where I did reality checks by either holding my nose and breathing through it or looking at my hands and noticing extra or missing fingers. The problem for me right now is that I can't seem to keep the dream up after becoming lucid. I can remember 3 dreams where the dream almost instantly collapsed after doing so. One of the dreams that didn't collapse straight away was a false awakening (if I have understood the term right) where I thought it was morning and I had just woken up to get ready for the day. Somehow the surroundings seemed foggy and dark which induced a reality check. After doing a reality check and realizing it was a dream, I recalled a method to keep the dream alive by rubbing my hands together ..but my hands felt sticky and I couldn't really do that ..so I tried to turn in a circle really fast ..which helped and the dreamworld was still within my reach so now I tried to imagine a beautiful beach where I wanted to be. It didn't work at all so instead I tried to imagine a big spider (I have no idea why) walking in from my door to prove myself I had the control over my dream. That didn't work either so I walked into the kitchen and my mom was there. I walked to her and she said something to me ..and I instantly woke up again..

Atleast I have time and opportunities to practice dream control now that I seem to become lucid almost every time I sleep. And an advice to those who are yet to become lucid in their dreams: Don't give up so easily. I suggest you try various techniques and give them some time before trying another. What works best for someone else might not work for you at all.

Also if anyone has any suggestions/experiences or even guidance for dream control, I would be pleased to hear about it.

Thanks to anyone reading and sorry if the grammar of my english is bad. It's not my native language.