Hey, people. I've been inactive for a long time and was just new to LDing when I joined this page. It's been like a year ago since I last came here, but yesterday something weird has happened and I'm interested in Lucid Dreaming once more.

It all began a few days earlier, when I was thinking about Lucid Dreaming and trying my first reality check after a year. It felt different now and I thought I could achieve lucidity. So yesterda morning when I woke up I had to bring my friend to the train station, after doing that I went back to bed and listened to a Fall Asleep Stress Reduction video which made me loosen up all my mucles and lay still, like you're supposed to do in a WILD. Then I fell asleep and as I woke up in my dream I looked at my hands and noticed they were sort of morphing/glitching into each other and I thought "Hey, this is what happens in a lucid dream, realize you're dreaming" and at that point it became a short battle to remain lucid as I was getting excited. Eventually I got control once more after blinking with my eyes in a weird manner (I know, makes no sense.) I didn't do much in the dream as I tried to fly, but only used my brain to think about flying, but it didn't get me to fly. It was very difficult to steer and after 4 minutes I think, I slowly woke up.

So I was wondering what suddenly caused me to realize I was dreaming, since I never did reality checks or anything to help me achieve a lucid dream. Also, why couldn't I do really much and control the dream? It felt like a constant battle to stay lucid, because I could see the dream fading away each time.

Thanks for reading and I hope some of you have answers for me