Greetings everyone! I'm really new to the forum and I just recently discovered what lucid dreaming is. I have never really known anything about what lucid dreaming is until watching a movie, which I bet alot of people here on this forum have seen, called Waking Life. After watching this movie I realized that I have been having lucid dreams for a long time. I've always thought it was an inconvenience during my dreams because this conscious dream state usually interrupts really enjoyable dreams. I have always started lucid dreaming during dreams where I realize that the dream I am having is just way too good to be true. It always starts during a dream where, for example, I am with a dream girl, i have just won the presidency or I have just won the lottery. All of a sudden, during the ecstacy and joy of these incredible feeling dreams, I realize, "Wait a minute, this is way to good be true. Oh, I am dreaming. This sucks!". Prior to understanding lucid dreaming, I usually just sat trapped in my dream really bummed out that what I was dreaming about wasn't real. Lately however after understanding what lucid dreaming is I have been having alot of fun playing around in my dreams. During my lucid dreams I have been having a problem with becoming so excited that I am lucid dreaming that I wake up in the middle of the night. All of my efforts during my most recent lucid dreams have been to fly but I am not sure if its going to be possible for me. Every attempt to fly i have made usually always ends in disaster. Last night I started lucid dreaming in the yard outside my house so I stood there for a second trying not to get too excited that I was lucid dreaming. Then as soon as I even started to think about flying I was thrust into space so far that I felt like I was playing around with the google earth program. I was moving so fast that earth looked like a marble to me after a split second. So i awoke this morning at about 3 am and my heart was pounding in my chest like I was on a roller coaster. I'm going to give up on flying for now and I don't really know what I am going to do during my next one.