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Hi, I am new here, I just had a short experience this morning that I would like to share and hear your opinions about, please excuse me if I mention useless details, it is just that I do not know yet what is important and what is not so I will tell the whole history. I have heard about Lucid Dreaming years ago and I never had the courage to try, maybe it is an unreasonable fear but I just did not dare. Lately I have been more curious about it, but still I did not read any techniques, just the general idea. Then yesterday I looked it up again and only read some techniques for reality check, that is all, and I decided that soon I will read more and someday I will have the courage to try. Then at night, I went to bed early and woke up before I get enough sleep, stayed up for few hours then went back to bed when I felt weak but was not really sleepy. Since I was a little kid, I cannot sleep without some visualizing for something is I wish to happen or whatever ideas come to my mind, this time I visualized nothing special, but for a few seconds I recalled what I read about reality check and Lucid Dreaming, and went back to my visualizations, anyway I do not know when did I fell asleep, but I know it did not last for long, I can tell for sure that the time between I went to bed and my wake up, was less than 45 minutes, and I never fall asleep immediately. I remember first thing was feeling paralyzed, it is not the first time it happens to me, so I was aware it is related to dreaming and tried to stop the failed attempts of moving my leg and relax. Then I remember felt like my body was moving up (in my mind) without being able to control or stop it when I am aware that my body is still on my bed, and I had some dreams about that before but they were that kind of dreams within dreams when I was not aware I was dreaming for real. This time I was conscious, it was like I am watching something happening to someone else but was not very clear, and I remembered (in the dream) what I read about Lucid Dreaming and thought it might be it and I freaked out, also the idea of dying crossed my mind for an instant, because I relate dying to souls going up out of body, then I decided I am dreaming and I am going out of it (I read that you can get out when you want so I believed I can) and I got out and woke up, I think all that happened in few seconds or it felt so. After waking up I felt so excited and happy and my fear disappeared, I wrote some notes in a notebook about what I experienced (I never did that before) planning to go back to bed for a normal sleep, but I could not sleep, I feel active and my mind is so clear, it feels like I had a full sleep and not feeling sleepy anymore, so I decided to look for some forums about Lucid Dreaming and look for advice. A side note: I am using subliminal affirmations for 2 weeks now, and I only added some about remembering my dreams that day before I sleep, but nothing was about Lucid Dreaming, just about remembering my dreams because I have trouble remembering them lately. Anyway sorry for the long post, and whatever what I experienced is called, I know that getting out of the dream easily when I wanted to made me less afraid of trying to Lucid Dream willingly. What do you think? Was that Lucid Dreaming?