Lucid dream-changing the scene

[Timandra]

Because I haven't had a LD in ages, I decided to post this old one from November 2009.

I became lucid in a weird dream, where thousands of babyspiders hatched and came down from the ceiling with threads. I thought: I'd better pick out a nicer dream to be in. I knew I had to stay as lucid as I was and I succeeded.
Then it was like I jumped because I landed on a pavement in a completely different envirement! It was the busstop in the city where I used to be every day when I was going to highschool/secondary school. I was so glad and excited that I finally had another LD, that I started to run, crossed the street and almost jumped in the canal... When i was about to jump I decided to check the water temperature because it was in november. The water wasn't freezingly cold like I expected, but nice and lukewarm. However, I didn't jump because I didn't like the idea of walking around in wet clothes.

I crossed the road again. A bus was approaching but I thought: "Oh never mind, it will go through me", but it stopped in front of me, only inches away. It was a very oldfashioned bus, with a lot of chrome on the front (I don't know the English word). The whole atmosphere also felt like it was the 40's or 50's in the last century.

Another bus passed and I suddenly came to the idea that I wanted to walk on a beach. I kept on walking and started to concentrate on a beach, but it suddenly went black all around me, I couldn't see a thing. I went :"uh oh, I shouldn't have done that", because I expected to wake up.  I kept on walking in the dark and then I felt that the bricks of the pavement had changed into sand! I also smelled the sea but I still didn't see anything and I woke up 10 seconds later.  
But it was a great experience!  

Comments and questions are very welcome. 

[Stookie]

That's pretty interesting Timandra. I sometimes have the same issue, where I make the transition but it's not always as planned or lots of discrepancies, or just somewhere strange I didn't expect. Places from my past are very common too.

[Timandra]

Thank you Stookie, for responding. 

[tweed]

Thanks for posting this. I'd like to try doing this too once the opportunity comes up.

The bus part is very amusing! I was floating a few weeks ago, through a school and there was a big table in front of me, that my body was moving toward. I figure I wouldn't feel it either, I sort of anticipated what would happen.. and then bam, I feel like I got punched in the stomach haha!  So I wasn't transparent after all, strangely. The next time, I have this idea that I would turn myself into an orb before wandering about...

[Micael]

That's a nice experience.
I've only had one LD so far (if I recall correctly) and it happened very randomly 
Lucky people. 

[Timandra]

I'd like to try doing this too once the opportunity comes up.

I hope you will succeed. Did you read the Lucid Dreaming Manual by Marc vandeKeere? It has dozens of good tips for LD's, I also read in there that it is normal that when you want to change the scene, it may take approx a minute before the new envirement will appear, and in the meantime you end up in the dark, called "Limbo land". I will add the link when I have found it.
Edit: I'm sorry, Scribd  has removed it, so no link to the ebook.

You can read about it here  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Lucid-Dreaming-Manual-Basics/dp/B002WTCJ7Y

Micael, perhaps also an idea to read the above book? It may help if you do the exercises.

Thank you tweed and Micael for responding.