heyyyyy, sorry about the hyper super happy post buuuuuut! i just cant help it. i just had my first (self induced) LD! pretty much the most amazing experience in the world. becoming lucid felt so surreal and out of this world that i couldnt go on to explain it until i test the waters a little buut a little about how i did it! i only found out about ld pretty much this year and as soon as i did i started on improving my dream recall and nothing else. i had always had relatively good dream recall as i would dream something at least 2 times a week, sometimes even 6 times :S Soooo after about 4 months of honing my recall i felt like last night was the night i should "attempt" to become lucid although it didnt even feel like it was possible since my dreams always felt as if they were reality, and becoming aware of my self inside of them was really far fetched.. but i did. i fell asleep chanting the ussual "i am going to awake from an awesome dream and remember everything" except i added "during my dream i will do many reality checks" (mind you i have been reality checking in real life for like 2 days prior) soo i fell asleep. 8 hours later i wake up to call my singer tell him no band practice today, then fell right back asleep. somewhere after that i began dreaming a very long dream that was real to me for a REALLY long time. i think i was actually pretty lucky that i even did a reality check because in my dream i was standing at a bus station waiting for a bus, the bus was unusually late and i was hungry so i looked at my watch (which i never have or even try to look at in my dreams) the time said 1:70 pm and it quickly blurred out and i couldnt look at it for too long. this is when i became lucid you can tell it was my first ld because the first thing i did was walk into the supermarket conveniently placed beside the bus station i ate so much awesome food that i always wanna do when im there in RL haha i loved it!!! i then tried jumping around really high and i even flew for a few minutes around the store.. but needless to explain the rest of my very boyish dream i just want to end on a thank you. this site, the people who teach it or expose it to people who dont know (me 4 months ago) when i woke up i felt like i had just discovered color in a black and white world.. its somethig im going to have with me for the rest of my life and i really dont know how to feel yet as this happened only 2 hours ago! but yeah... thanks.. and happy dreaming