Ever since my friend informed me about lucid dreaming several months ago, I have been going to bed night after night with great hopes, and in the morning waking with no success. Until today.

I have been severely concentrating on the WILD method. So last night I got further than ever before. I felt my body enter sleep paralysis. But then something happened that I did not expect: I slipped into a dream in which I was still in my bed and still felt the sleep paralysis. My hands started moving as though I was a puppet on strings. This, for some reason, didn't alert me and I didn't dare disturb my strange movements in the fear that I would disrupt sleep paralysis. Eventually people began coming into my room and asking me why my hands were moving like so. I got angry at them, as they were disrupting my WILD. I was completely unaware that I was already in the dream. Crazy.

Next thing I know I'm standing at the entrance to my college's cafeteria with my family. We are about to enter for a meal. I turn around and think, "I might as well do a reality check". I look at my hands. Where some of my fingers were before, they were now replaced by two fingers spirally entwined. And then I realized, with great excitement, "I'm dreaming!" I was so overjoyed - in a way I haven't been in real life for quite some time - and then I determined that I should do something fun. I ran outside as quickly as I could, crouched on the ground, lept upwards and took of flying. I flew high above my school, at times diving in close to the ground and then swooping back up again. Beyond that, I have very fuzzy memories of being in a dark room and realizing that I was losing the dream.

I wish it had lasted longer, but the taste I did get was amazing. Now I'm pumped to hone my ability to lucid dream. And a thanks to everyone on this board, it was very helpful reading things on here as I spent months pursuing this.