I have a bunch of questions about lucid dreaming. I have had a lucid dream once when I was 12, and it was super breif. Now I am intrested in the subject. So here goes some questions:

1. Does age affect lucid dreaming? I am 37, and I was wondering if that makes it harder or easier to reach lucidity.

2. How vivid are the controlled lucid dreams? I have had many dreams over the years. They have always been different snap shots of places and events. They never look clear to me. The picture is alway wierd when I recall it after I wake up.

3. How long after recording dreams, and performing some of the suggestions should I expect to have a lucid dream (I know that it depends on each person, but please tell me about your personal experience).

4. Last night, before going to bed, I was suggesting to myself to be aware of my dreams (after 5 days of reading this stuff). During the night every time I felt like I was about to have a dream I would wake up telling myself, "you're about to have a dream now. Be aware!" I wasn't able to dream because I was too sensitive to them. What should I do? Did that happen to any one of you.

5. How well can you control your dreams? Can you do anything easily?

Anyway, I have had dreams in the past, but mostly of the type that comes true. I dream something, and usually it is symbolic. I would understand the symbols, and then they come true. Some time they are not symbolic and they happen in real life as they are.

Also, I have had back problems in the past, and part of the problem was solved when I controlled how I slept. I realized, after many nights of sleeping and waking to pain, that I could control how I slept even though I was not awake. I used to suggest to myself before goig to bed that if I sleep a certain way that I should wake up and reposition myself. It worked! I called that conscious sleeping.

Now I want to combine my dreams and conscious sleeping to achieve controlled lucid dreaming.

Moe.