Quote Originally Posted by Iamerik View Post
Well dream control and being lucid are two different things. You can have control over your dream without fully realizing that you are dreaming, and you can realize that you are dreaming but have no control.

Take a look at the dream control part of the forums, or the tutorial section. Lot's of good information there. It's difficult at first, but once you get more familiar with the feeling of lucid dreams things should get easier.

And yeah, as the other Erik said, stay calm. And if you expect the dream to end soon, it probably will. So keep thinking positive, or don't think about it at all!
Thanks guys for the replies. I think I'll work on staying more calm when it happens again and I'll read up more in the Dream Control section.

erik212-- I've only had LDs using the DILD method. Basically just realizing I'm dreaming while I'm dreaming. I've found that if I do reality checks throughout the day, I'm more likely to have a LD even if I don't perform one necessarily in the dream. I have yet to perform a reality check in a dream, but all 3 times that I've been able to become Lucid, I've set up a timer on my phone that goes off every hour and alerts me to do a Reality Check. And I also do one everytime I see one of my dream signs now too.

I hadn't done that between February and now and that could be why I've had such a big dry spell.