This is my first post on these forums, and i'd like to say hi to everyone.

SO, a few months back I started reading about astral projection and meditation. This interested me a whole lot, but all of my tests with it came up with no results. I was surfing the web one day when i came upon a website about lucid dreaming. I did a bit of research, and read about how people achieved lucidity in the past. I thought that I wouldn't have any results, like with astral projection.

I started to think a whole lot about lucid dreaming, and about dreaming in general, for about 2 weeks. Every night I would go to sleep, telling myself "i'll wake up in my dream" and just constantly telling myself that over and over again, but this did nothing. I guess i sort of gave up for a while, and just sleeping regularly. But one night, i was having a dream that I was riding a bicycle in a familiar sort of place, there were a few shops next to me, and grass to the left. it was during the day, and there was another person riding with me. we came upon a flight of steps, maybe 5 of them. I attempted to ride them, but in doing this my back tire slipped underneath me and i fell, in slow motion. after this i fell a whole lot, but not getting hurt. there were 4 of us now. we continued riding, and came to another set of stairs. i fell down these to, but this time I jumped awake.

I didnt think about lucid dreaming at all before I did this. nor did I after i awoke. I got up and walked around for a few, showered, and sat back down on my couch (where i had fallen asleep the previous
night) i eventually got more and more comfortable, and drifted off.

Now i was in somebodies driveway, in the town i live in. there was a big truck in the driveway. it was night, and all of the stars were out, and the moon was shining. there was a man in the driveway that I was talking to. we were talking about an apartment complex, which just happened to be across the street. I looked at the window, which had a light in it. I could see the moon to the left of the building. The man continued talking to me, explaining that that apartment was a haunted building. many evil spirits roamed it's halls. He wanted to make sure that I wanted to purchase it (because apparently i was buying it) he said "are you sure you want to do this? People have been known to melt in their seats." which i got a sudden image of a man sitting in a recliner, screaming as his body became one with the leather. I replied yes. a second or so after, i looked up at the sky. there were 4 large flying ships passing overhead, going at extreme speeds. I started to think "this cant be real". I looked back at the apartment, and looked at the moon, which proceeded to get larger and fall towards the ground, though it stayed lit outside. I got scared, so I got on my bicycle(which i happened to have handy) and started to ride fast away from the scene. I felt the prescence of the people who I had been riding with in the dream from earlier around me. I turned to my right and saw one of them, with his bicycle turned upside down, along with him, wheels not even touching the ground, riding beside me. at this moment i realized what was happening. I got pretty excited, but i kept it together. my thoughts raced at what i wanted to do, and so I started to ride faster, and faster. I was considering jumping into the air with my bicycle, but just decided to keep riding. I was riding with much more ease than i had done in my previous dream, and i could feel everything as if it was happening. a few things were blurry, like i didnt see anything on the sides of the road, but i didnt think to stop to look. there was a large staircase in the middle of the road, taking up both lanes. it went up and dropped off at the top (which is still strange to me) i proceeded to jump over it, with much ease. i than rode around the streets at great speed, hopping over things, and ridiing on the walls for a few good minutes. as I came down from the wall, i started thinking "what should i do??" and I guess i just got too excited, and awoke. i immediatly remembered everything that happened, every last detail.

This was my only experience with lucid dreams, and it was actually pretty cool. I havnt really done anything with LDs for a few good months. does anyone have any suggestions for how I can get back there again?

and i have a bit of a clue, like sleeping and waking, than going back to sleep.

thanks