Hi...I've been trying to have lucid dreams for a few months now I guess....that and astral projection/oobe's. I haven't had much success yet except for one instance. I was in the middle of a dream....dreaming that I was at an airport...all of a sudden for no reason I thought "wait a second...I'm dreaming...awesome! I'm having a lucid dream!"...but it ended soon after. In the morning it felt like it had just been a dream and that I'd dreamt about lucid dreaming...which was confusing.

Just last night I dreamt that I was on a bus and asking the driver how to have a lucid dream....he told me to lie down and that I would have one....then in the dream...I was having a lucid dream for a moment...but that was just what my dream me was doing....once again...confusing.

Finally a problem I have with lucid dreaming is that most of my dreams involve things that have happened to me in the past. e.g. when I was young I'd often worry about missing the school bus, now I dream about waiting for the school bus and I'm so intent on not missing it that I never realise it's a dream. I never do anything like flying or having giant feet or anything crazy so I always just think it's real life, but in the past. Hmmmmmmm........

I should also add...last night I had a nice experience...I was doing my usual bed time lying on my bed relaxing...I was listening to some music (Kitaro). When I started falling asleep (random nonsensical thoughts coming in to my head), I tried to really relax and zone out. The blackness in front of my eyes changed to look like a big swirling space (instead of just plane black with some white shapes every so often), and my whole body went completely numb. Nothing else occured after this despite me continuing my relaxing for a while so I just rolled over and went to sleep...(see dream above )