I just wanted to share with everyone my first good lucid experience.

I've been working on lucid dreaming for a while now, and have had several DILDs except I would always wake up from the excitement. This happened 6 or 7 times, and I was starting to get afraid that I couldn't realize I was in a dream without waking up.

Well finally, the other night I had a very good lucid experience where I realized I was lucid and didn't wake up from the excitement. This was a very big stepping stone for me and I wanted to share it with anyone who is interested. Here is the excerpt from my dream journal.

I was at M's new dorm and it was kinda trashy and the lights didn't work. Then I was working at pizza hut again and I saw A and she was still a bitch. I also remember riding a giant cable across town with my hands. Then at some point, me and another guy were aware that a giant nuke was going to go off right next to us. So we started to run away and enjoy the last few minutes of our life. The guy I was with was Indian. Once we got about a mile from the blast site we waited for the nuke to fall and enjoyed the last few seconds of our lives. When the nuke finally went off it was very amazing. I saw a gigantic explosion first, but that part didn't hit us. Next I felt a wave of radiation hit my body and then blastwave approaching very fastly and blinding me with white light. When it was over I was floating up in the sky towards heaven. I saw people down on earth still and they were fighting and there was fire everywhere, but the people floating upwards towards heaven seemed to be at peace. It was at this point that I became lucid. Anyway, once I became lucid I floated safely back down to the ground and started to talk to the 3 DCs sitting down there. One of them was the Indian I had run away with, and I can't remember what the other two looked like. I talked to them for a long time and the Indian said something about his life being complete because he had talked to someone in a dream. I remember furiously hugging one of them and also laughing with them like they were my best friends.
I found the scenery to be very vivid and interesting. We were standing next to a shoddy broken down house, but despite the house's condition, the vividity of it was still amazing to me.

Anyway that is all I can remember. I felt lucky to have remembered it at all because when I awoke in the morning I could tell that it had happened much earlier in the night. Thank you for letting me share my experience with you.