LUCID DREAM!!!!!

Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. I finally did it! I had my first lucid dream last night! It was amazing. Thrilling. Extraordinary. Breathtaking. And more. I went to bed at around 12 and got up at 6. At first, I just sat up in my bed thinking out a dream that I want to have in the future which I read on a forum online which goes a little like this:

"I thought about 'RC' written on the wall. And then, I had a cell phone, and someone text messaged me saying 'Come to the RC competition.' And then I went to the competition, not knowing what 'RC' meant, then the announcer announced, 'welcome to the reality check competition!' Then, when it was my turn to do it, I did my reality check and found out I was dreaming."

After about 5-10 minutes of dozing off / thinking about a situation similar to the one described previously, I got out of bed and started reading the aforementioned forum (http://www.dreamviews.com/community/index.php). After about an 50 minutes of this I was deciding between listening to some binaural beats or the rhythmic timer and decided for the latter. I changed things up by having the timer go off after 6, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 15, 4.5 minutes instead of my regular 8, 4, 8 timer. I also used headphones this time instead of just using my computers speakers. As I went to sleep, I felt like I wasn't going to be able to sleep and I was still awake when the first 6 minute timer went off. I was about to give up, but I decided not to move (probably because I was in sleep paralysis). I went to sleep and I remember waking up after the 3 minute timer feeling a jolt of tingle suddenly through my body (as mentioned in a previous post). I drifted back to sleep and started dreaming. The dream can be read in my dream journal, so I'll skip to where I became lucid! I found myself above my body and feeling really, really excited. I kept telling myself, "I'm LUCID DREAMING! I'm LUCID DREAMING!" My heart was beating fast and I was flying around my room. My image of my body was me laying flat on my back with my arms at my side and so when I became lucid, my dream body was exactly like that. I was flying around like that and I remember feeling an incredible tingling sensation throughout my body during my flying. Also, I was breathing in my dream and I remember hearing a breath immediately after my dream body's breath and I said to myself "It must be my physical body's breath. As long as I keep breathing here my physical body will keep breathing too!" So, with my heart rate accelerated, I kept breathing and flying around the room really excited to be lucid. I then thought to myself "let me try to go through the wall," as this is also a common sensation people try when they become lucid. I first started going headfirst through my ceiling but I thought to myself "I probably shouldn't go headfirst." When the slightest bit of my head penetrated the wall, there was this large rumbling noise as if rocks in an avalanche were crumbling and I brought myself to my feet. I then decided to try to walk through the door (without opening it (stupid, I know)). I told myself, "I believe I can walk through it, I believe I can walk through it." But, unfortunately, I didn't go through the door. I tried again through the wall and not through the door this time, but to no avail. Almost immediately after that I woke up. I started smiling as I knew I had lucid dreamt (obviously!) and immediately went and wrote down my dream. I LOVE IT! Lucid dreaming was an exhilarating and fulfilling experience. I can't wait to have more.