lucid

Last night I had two lucids- which I'll elaborate on after I explain how i induced them (requested)
Induction technique, before I'm fully lucid, there's a moment when I know I am dreaming, but I want to wake up...The best way to explain this is a nightmare, If you wake up before the "worst" part , then you have the same moments. Anyway, I get these but before I open my eyes I imagine a roller coaster. Once I feel comfortable, I open my eyes and that's where I am After that , it clicks. I am in a dream, anything else I imagine I do it with the same method. Close eyes, imagine, open them, start engine.
FOR THE ACTUAL LUCID DREAM
I used the above technique but I kept viewing boxes instead of the full picture, I tried again and the next time was a success. I ended up an apartment where I examined the walls some dudes baldness and tested my senses. I tasted a piece of chocolate which was the best. But let me tell you about perception, it's the worst part because if you have a preconcieved notion than you don't get an authentic experience. you get expectations. For example the smell, I had no idea what it was like I saw someone with a gas tank. So my dream environment smelled like gas. The chocolate tasted good ( I read on here the best food is within a dream) I examined little things...they were little.

The rubbing your hands method...
I do this a lot but the problem is I never realize I'm fading out of lucidity. The method assumes your dream is fading, instead of your consiousness.
With the latter problem, I stop long conversations. The problem with long conversations is I get trapped in a fixation like finding an answer to a problem, or question. Before I realize it , I become less aware that I am dreaming. I always remind myself to keep dreaming. Don't chase after answers, let them come to you.

I recalled my LD last night, but I can't remember how I came to awareness. I tried the nose-plug and it worked . I was in shock, but not as excited this time, because I became aware the night before and then forgot the whole dream. Last night was a similar situation, except I remember more than becoming aware. After the nose plug worked, I made the same mistake as last time- chasing an ex gf of mine. I got her to show up, but I couldn't kiss her. I tried flying instead. Someone said I couldn't do it, so it gave me the motivation to prove him wrong. I was flying by applying the freestyle technique for swimming to the air. It didn't last too long next thing I know I'm getting told I'm going to be late, but I know that my brother is lying because the clocks read different times. My iPod said 509 or something weird...I then remembered how I should explore more in the dreamworld than my fantasies. I tried to meet with my subconscious, but couldn't find "it" to save my dream. I woke up recalling fragments of this lucid dream and a vivid non lucid.
Overall, in my next lucid I will try to wake up after I meet my conscious so I can remember it.

I woke up at 4a.m not on my volition and found a little present waiting for me when i went back to sleep. As I drifted off to sleep, I opened my eyes and saw a ps3 controller. I don't have a ps3 so I figured I must be dreaming. I wanted to see how my hand looked and it looked pretty normal. I did a noseplug and woke up...As I went back to sleep , a similar thing happened. I did the noseplug and it worked. It's hard to explain this exactly, but I felt like I could open my eyes to "enter" the dream world. What I didn't realize is that my eyes had to have been open (in the dream) in order to see my surroundings. As soon as I opened my eyes, I fell into a false awakening. I was getting ready for my day etc my room mate said it was it 5:30 a.m. I was rushing...for what reason, I have no idea.
Yea, when I finally woke up I recalled a dream where I was nonlucid in the cafeteria with an old friend DD and some girls with a gym teacher giving them instructions on how to register. I was trying to leave.

this expectation thing is giving me blue balls. For real ! last night I wtb with a mantra. And I had a "lucid dream" not a magycial one.I did a nose plug reality check and I could breath so I thought "I'm dreaming" and then my heart pounded really quickly and I felt like I would wake up so I just concentrated and waited for the black to turn into something better. It did, and in a few seconds I could see a bunch of squares with trees and flashing colors. Better unexplained . Anyway I was still nervous my heartbeat would wake me up , but I could only see my dream, not get into it. It was like I was watching a t.v. with a very blurry image. Then I woke up and did another reality check which failed. But I remember thinking I should record that on my iphone so that I don't forget I was lucid in the morning.

I'm mad that I was never actually awake, and when I actually did wake up my recall wasn't as vivid. I can't remember the dream before my lucid. But I remember the two after it.

I followed a girl B and her friends to a camp across the river, located on a dark island.In order to reach it , one had to complete the obstacles. So copying B I just sort of glided across the balances etc. and made it. There I followed people and wanted to leave, I knew M would be worried. She came just as I was leaving and I didn't even ask "how?!" she managed to get across. Anyway a friend, alexi, said it's a camp kind of like college. I didn't get involved in the dancing but there was a gym with a couple of my peers. I finally found where people hid out during the summer. I found an old "Friend" j there and she didnt mention much but complemented another girl. It was weird because I ignored her mostly. She wasn't surprised I was there. Before I saw J, I was looking at how clean their bathrooms were . The other ones had blobs on the ground. I ran outside with just a towel and back and saw the Jule and talked about her with j's blonde friend. Juile is you know... was all I could get out.

At an old-western themed bar. Nina and F were above shouting to get beverages. I saw Nin and just exited but came back to help my sis win some money.