In this dream I was in a park with heaps of people about (I thought I was awake) and I knew I was close to having a lucid dream. I had been feeling kind of ‘vibrational’ so I found a little rocky ledge to sit on and closed my eyes. Almost immediately I felt the vibrations start up and tried to encourage them. I remember feeling how good it was that I could do this directly from being wide awake, instead of needing to go to sleep first. I felt my body tip backwards until my feet were in the air and finally somehow ‘launched’ free of my body. (I know this sounds like an OOBE or AP but I have slipped into lucid dreams like this several times before and fully believe that they were only lucid dreams - I'm actually skeptical of the whole OOBE thing, but that's another story...)

Once I was lucid I remembered that I had a plan to run through some reality checks to test which ones are effective. I started with one that I have never read about, but thought might work, it involved just asking myself what day it was. My assumption is that it should not actually be any day (like a Monday or Tuesday) in a dream. Unfortunately, as I was thinking about this, I was unable to stop myself dashing about like a madman... and then I woke up about two seconds later.

Pleased to get lucid - disappointed I squandered it in such a stupid fashion. I have become lucid in a dream before but never actually fallen asleep in a dream (or thought I did) and become lucid that way. Cool. Inception, here I come...!!