I FOUND MYSELF LAYING IN MY BED THINKING I WAS awake. i heard my brother running around my room, so i got up and he wasn't there. i go down stairs then go back upstairs, but as im on the stairs i look at the t.v and i notice a woman on the screen and her head is balooning, like inflating and deflating.at that point i became mildly lucid. i counted the steps as i went up and counted only 12, (aand i know theres 14 steps actually) that increased the lucidity. as i was at the top of the stairs looking down i decided to levitate and i did. i floated to my room and then i felt as if i were blacking out, the environment faded and in the blackness i saw the sillouttes of the objects (like when you look at a object and you close your eyes real fast and the image sustains for a few seconds after closing your eyelids). at that point i spun and everything came back to clarity. the vividness was now strong and my lucidity good. i went to my bookshelf and pulled out a calvin and hobbes book to make them appear with me. i opened up the book and it had very bright comics in it and text that i can't recall. they never came into my dimension though. i went over to my lamp and tried the light experiment. the light was on so i tried to turn it off but nothing happened. i then walked downstairs and went out my back door, and facing west in the sky was the sun replaced by a smily face :). i went around the house and phased back into the regular dream.
that was my 1st LD that actually lasted and i could have control over. i'd say it was about 3 minutes.
it was a totally different world and i finally was aware that i was in this world. it was great.
That sounds like it was fun, congradulations. It's good how you kept your cool and managed some extending and exploring. That Sun thing sounds weird, was it bright to look at? > <
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