My first sucssesfull lucid dream was an interesting experience.

It was a series of several dreams. I became lucid in everyone. I gained the relization that I was in a dream, and started to experiment (im trying this so I can practice playing insturments in my sleep to get an extra 8 hours of practice a day. )

So as I started trying different things i could do, A dream deamon showed up. He was a flying goblin, very old, with a spear (resmebling the golbin fimiliar in castle vania SOTN but old) and he had every power I had, except his didnt wear him out (I was distracted from realizing I was dreaming by this deamon and slowly, dream physics took control agian) As soon as I lost enough "power" the dream deamon would whipe my memory, and change the dream to another dream. This happened for a lot of dreams, half of what I don't remember.

Then he changed it do another dream. This one I was in a class of jedi like children, where we learned dream powers. One of the tasks we were asigned was to walk along the bottom of the pacific ocean to get to the other side of the world. It took me 7 years, and then I found a passage to hell under the water. When I entered i had visions of what happened here between deamon brothers trying to take over hell. Every artifact I noticed brought more visions of the past (hell had been abondoned, everyone deamon/monster dead, killed by each other) At which point I awoke.

The scary part is, is that I feel like i spent 7 years in that dream. I feel 7 years older then I am. I've retained dream time in real time, and it scared me. I never wanted to feel that experience again, 7 years of gained life... how long could I live for? This scares the crap out of me.

Then I found a post to this site on digg.com, so I think I'll try to get into it. Maybe as I become better at being lucid, I can control how long my dreams are percieved, and take as long as I want, instead of extremely long like above, or too short. I'm starting my dream journal again tonight. Wish me luck!

Has anyone else had this kind of experience?