Hello everyone! I'm new here, I decided to join after having 2 lucid experiences in 3 days because I just had to tell someone.

The first happened Sunday. I had to wake up early for breakfast and when I came home an hour later I was still very sleepy so I decided to go back to bed. In my dream I was riding on top of an ore cart carrying two submachine guns. At this point I was looking at myself from outside my body. I heard the sounds of the guns being cocked and when I did I thought to myself "That's a stock sound effect they use in video games." At this point I went into my body and became aware that I was in a dream. I was still riding on the ore cart, which stopped at a large doorway. I decided I was going to leap in there Max Payne-style, so I pushed off the ground and mid jump I thought "I can float." And I did. Then I very foolishly thought I can use my powers of flight to induce an OBE. I started floating up, rocking hard back and forth, but I only succeeded in waking myself up.

Since then I started reading up on lucid dreaming and practicing MILD.

Last night I found myself on an empty schoolbus. I went to the seat directly behind the driver and found that no one was there. I got worried because the bus was going down a big hill, but when I looked closer the wheel and pedals were moving by themselves, guiding the bus perfectly. I thought "I'm not even going to ask why this bus is driving itself" and sat back in my seat. One moment later I thought "Busses don't drive themselves! This is a dream!" I got up and walked to the middle of the bus. Afraid I would wake up soon I tried the spinning technique which worked to an extent, things did get blurry. Unfortunately, the spinning reminded me of a dirvesh and a was somehow sucked out of lucidity and into a dream where I was in a Middle Eastern marketplace. Don't remember much about that one.

If anyone is still reading after that exhaustingly long account, thanks for listening. I was also curious if anyone else has been brought to lucidity by a sound rather than a visual cue?