First real vivid lucid dream

Last night i came home from a bar after celebrating my girlfriends birthday. I drank quite alot so i fell asleep quite fast. During the night i woke up many times with of course a headache and a unquenchable thirst, so i went to the fridge and drank some cold apricot lemonade (something that i never do i always resort to tapwater, but for some strange reason the water wouldnt turn cold (and i wasn't dreaming :P))
After doing that a couple of times i suddenly woke up in my bed and closed my eyes again. And started experiencing what i always do when i try to invoke WILD. It starts with my computer screen and from blurry it becomes more and more sharp till i can actually make out whats on the screen. Normally it fades away because i focus too much on it but this time i held a relaxed attitude towards it thinking: "let's see what im doing here"
I saw then that i was working one of my music sequencing programs till it suddenly popped into me that i should hop into a dream from here. My body vibrated heavily suddenly and the screen just popped off, and all was dark.
I was wondering whether i again had failed and was just lying in my bed.. but very slowly i moved my fingers to my nose and did the nose breathing RC. And i could breathe thru my nose :)
Earlier when i did this i just checked it once and then wanted to get busy in my dream, but that resulted in me waking up. So i just kept my eyes closed and kept breathing a bit and eventually i opened my eyes, and i saw my room completely lit by sunlight. For the next 20 minutes i just explored my dream, used alot of voice commands to control it. And the hand rubbing technique worked like a charm. I also checked out dream spinning for the first time and see where i ended up. Of course i flew to many places and it was a wonderfull feeling.
Funniest part was where i interogated a DC and i asked him what he was doing in my dream. He didn't know what to say and wanted proof that i was dreaming and said: make that train there dissappear.
So i did! and the DC was shocked and just ran away from me and then suddenly the train appeared again stuck in a wall in front of him and he ran up against it and got knocked out :-P

I'll see if drinking that lemonade somehow affected me, trying it again tonight.

Hmm...first it was cranberry juice after beer (some previous thread) and now lemonade after...probably beer too, eh? Heh.
An interesting tendency.

Your dream sounds a lot like the one I had a while back.

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Originally posted by Merlock
Hmm...first it was cranberry juice after beer (some previous thread) and now lemonade after...probably beer too, eh? Heh.
An interesting tendency.

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The process of getting out of bed half way during the night, or drinking something, in addition with a hangover could be a main factor in inducing these lucid dreams. Only experimentation will tell! Any takers?

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Well on another night when my friends want to have some fun that involves drinking i will definately try it again.
The dreams in that evening were very vivid and clear, and so was the lucid dream with no problem whatsoever of controling every little detail.

EDIT:
i just realized that maybe the hangover was the trick, or better said maybe the headache.
It was a pain that is prominently present the moment you wake up so that you realize "aww man my head" but not so excruciating that you cant fall asleep again. But you mind has been set on reality and you know you just woke up and have a pain somewhere.
Maybe having a certain pain somewhere that you immediatly notice when you wake up is a good way to get your mind alert and be able to right back into a dream state. Normally when i try to WILD my mind starts slipping fast, but this time i felt myself to be very clear minded and relaxed, and i didnt have to get out of bed do some mindwork and then try to fall asleep again.

this is very interesting. i've been experimenting, and found that usually if i smoke cannabis or drink heavily, i remember few, if any dreams (never a lucid).

so, last weekend was a staff christmas party, with free booze.. i couldn't pass on that :D so i got loaded, expecting the night to be a write-off as far as dream work. i was so drunk, but i remember doing one reality check on the way home (after we got pulled over for me throwing real estate flyers out the window, but that's another story)..

anyways, i'd only had two or three borderline lucid dreams previously.

so, i wake up in the middle of the night feeling like shit. go grab a glass of water, and go back to sleep. i had THREE lucids! it blew me away. and the best part is, they were the clearest yet.

the first one, i woke up, laid on the 'vibrational theshold' for awhile, and followed the hypnagogic imagery into a restaurant, where i focused on various characters and gained almost complete lucidity (as in 'everyday' detail).

i think the alchohol just loosened me up. probably a combination of that, and not having huge expectations that night. the week previously, i'd been trying really hard to have a lucid.

interesting certainly, but i'd rather not have to get drunk everytime i want to LD. it'd be too damn expensive.. :P