From: Dozer_back@hotmail.com   
      
   I'm a newbie in having lucid dreams   
      
   some days ago I had my first 'real' lucid dream.   
   I had one before but I was so excited I woke up..   
      
   I noticed I was dreaming when I absolutely couldn't read the time on my   
   watch. I did the look-at-hands-trick to stay dreaming.   
   I found myself in a strange house, which I 'knew' it was an appartement I   
   used to live in.   
   Only on the moment of becomming lucid I realised it didn't even look like   
   it.   
      
   I walked around and wanted to begin with changing from location. I tried to   
   teleport myself in the middle of a dessert but instead the dessert was   
   situated in the same house I was walking around in. The furniture covered   
   with sand. I felt like a failed wizard and tried to focus me on my desert.   
   some walls disappeared but not everything.   
      
   Suddenly my someone comes to me and asks me if I can help him with   
   something. I was irritated a bit (because I was busy teleporting myself to   
   the desert) and asked if he could wait and ask it tomorrow, not realising he   
   was also a dream character. It couldn't wait so I helped him but it could   
   take hours so I looked at my watch again when I saw my 'second-indicator?'   
   (I really don't know how it's called in English) and it moved really fast. I   
   realised I was still dreaming and left the dreamcharacter. Again focused on   
   my desert I now tried (desert was gone) to close my eyes, and when I open   
   them I'll be in the desert.   
   Unfortunately, when I opened my eyes I was staring at the ceiling of my roof   
   and my watch was working perfect again....   
      
   should I never close and open my eyes again if I want to stay dreaming, and   
   does it have anything to do with this so called R.E.M.?   
      
   how come I couldn't get that desert fixed?   
      
   and why do I always distract myself with all kinds of stuff to convince me   
   that I'm not dreaming? isn't that a natural reflex of your mind to tell you   
   you may not stay lucid, but continiu processing the things you should   
   normaly dream when you're not lucid, becouse you need it?   
      
   I hope I can find some answers here becouse I think there will be more   
   questions it the future :)   
   sorry for any wrong spelling, English is a foreign language for me, but I do   
   my best :p   
      
   Greetings   
   Delle   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)