Last night I had my first lucid dream. Very unexpectedly too. I was looking at this site about a month, month in a half ago. I tried for a while to remember dreams/ lucid dream but couldn't. I didn't think about dreaming for about a month or so. Then last night I had a very long lucid/semi-lucid dream.

Basically I woke up in the middle of the night. Still half asleep i decided to try to fall asleep while remaing conscious. Almost instanly I started seeing pictures and colors. Then very soon after that ( At least i think) my body instantly went numb and I couldn't move it. I dont know if i went into the dream from there or if it happened later. (WILD?) Anyway heres my dream.

Craig's Dream Journal
http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27983

I was just wanting to hear what some of your recommendations are for improving dream recall. When I started reading this a month or so ago I went to bed for weeks thinking "remember your dream", I did have sucess once and vividly remember a dream. Since then i haven't remebered much else except for small fragments. I have very bad dream recall. This was the first time i've fully remembered a dream in about a month. Usually i dont get much sleep because I'm up doing homework till 1-2 in the morning and get up at 7 or 8 for classes.
Also this dream was very vivid when i was in it, but as soon as i woke up and realised what happened everything I remember got hazy. I just remember thinking in the dream "This feels so real.."