Last Friday I had (finally) my 6th lucid dream! [/yeah!]

Anyway, I sort of "woke up lucid" in my dorm room and decided it'd be cool to jump out of the window and fly off. However, I seemed to remember my advice to new LDers: "Make sure you're dreaming before you jump off of anything high." I tried the finger-through-the-hand RC, but surprisingly it didn't work. However, I supplemented it with the "hold your nose" RC, which proved to be a success, even though in the mirror it showed me pinching my cheek

Anyway, satisfied that I WAS indeed dreaming, I opened the window and jumped out, more floating to the ground than anything else. Then I woke up. But yah, it made me laugh.

Now, for some reason I can't seem to have dreams over 30 seconds. It seems that they usually come towards the ends of my dreams, but looking back, most of them just fade back into NLDs. How can I prolonge them or induce them earlier so I can actually do something? Unfortunately they don't happen enough for me to get a good grip on them, usually about once a month or so.

(I joined forces with the Phantom last night. It was cool!)

-Amé