So today (yeah, I napped away most of the day, it's Sunday) I had my first lucid dream. A bunch of reptile men that looked like bad costumes from the 60s were taking over the world, and they were at a camp that I was attending in the middle of the desert. Lots of cliffs and stuff around. Anyways, I was secretly one of them, but I had these giant wings. To escape while they were rounding up the people at the camp, I jumped off a cliff to fly. That was the moment where I realized I was dreaming, and if I stopped believing I had wings then I would drop, so I had to remember as strongly as possible that I did, in fact, have wings, and if I doubted, the wings faltered. I was well aware the whole time that I couldn't die, so I could take risks, openly fighting the costume-looking aliens, and hiding from their goons in really obvious places. If I believed it, it happened, though there was such a sense of reality that I only ended up influencing my immediate surroundings. In the end, I caused them to back off, got the guy, and left on a bus to go home, and then I woke up. Took me a bit to realize that yeah, that was a lucid dream.

I was a pretty big skeptic of truly lucid dreams before this, but now I know it's entirely possible. I might not have been able to really control my environment, but I controlled myself as though I was in a dreamworld. Now that I've had one, will more come, or do I have to work on it?

Congratulations, WraithGod. Being blooded, you would be welcomed with open arms on any of the lucid boards. Allow me to suggest

http://www.mortalmist.com/index.php?

which was founded by some of the more accomplished members (gurus, former mods, and such) of dreamviews. MM is new and still smallish, but a nice, knowledgeable community that you might enjoy, and where you would find folks to advise you in developing this further.

That is a textbook experience that resembles many of my own. Yes more will come. The dreams are a test and they want to see how you will react in certain situations. It is very difficult to prepare for a lucid dream because they will catch you off guard. Even if you become aware you are lying in bed and assume some sort of control and direction you are still easly distracted in this state. My advice is to stay focused and be aware of distractions. If you remember the experience upon awakening ask yourself if you acted appropriately or performed well, did you accomplish the mission or did you get distracted.

Congrats on your first lucid dream! Lucky that you got to stay in the dream even though you realized you were dreaming. In my first lucid dreams, I would wake up shortly after realizing it was just a dream. Even now it is a struggle to stay asleep, that first hint that it might be a dream is often enough to bring you out of it.

It's nice. cool.

Oh wow. I would've laughed until I lost concentration, and then would have fallen to my death. >.< Hmm.

Some simple tips if you are interested in developing dream consciousness.

Visualize before you go to sleep, this is the most easy way to become conscious of the dream around you. It doesn't matter what, sometimes ill do a couple of circling red lights, it works fine to jump start the brain as it drifts back up from sleep.

Something to note, the more vivid the visualization the more vivid the dream, and watch what you visualize because some things you obviously dont want to be stuck in a dream with, I.E. visualizing dark themed things, or things you have an attachment to in real life.

I usually use my "quiet place"(rofl, i sound so emo) which is a clearing with some trees, waterfall, grass, birds and wildlife, etc.

Try to develop more than visual senses, the eye is the easiest sense to trick, feeling is the best. Feel the grass, hear the wildlife, feel the spray of the waterfall, and the roughness of bark and rocks, smell the crisp mountain air(or ofcourse whatever you prefer).

If you get good enough at it you will end up there, or atleast end up somewhere conscious of the dream and able to move about and experience more than the average, semi-conscious dream.

People seem to forget that dreams are within themselves just as real as the waking world, like the sun and moon, day and night, neither is more important than the other, both are needed, and both are real.