Questions are in Bold.
I hate myself now. Let me explain. I had a good sleep and then had to wake up to feed the cat his pills. After 2 hours i decided to take a nap. I wanted to try WILD so i lay down on my stomach (most comfortable for me) and began to count while imagining myself climbing numbered stairs. My mind kept wandering and making a story out of it like…someone would appear beside me and would be doing something stupid like hopping up the stairs and fall and I’d help them up etc… I didn’t know if this was supposed to happen or not but whenever my mind created scenarios i got frustrated. Was this supposed to happen? Is this what I’m supposed to be doing? Well anyway I continued to count and i became very focused on it…I can remember getting to 76 or so. So i don’t remember the beginning of my dream but i can remember being at my cousin’s house sitting on his couch. The conversation went something like this:
Me: I’m dreaming you know.
Him: Yeah, you are.
Me: This is cool.
Him: I don’t remember this lamp. (Points)
Me: Yeah, thats because I’m dreaming and forgot how your house looks. Sorry (Laughs)
Him: Or this couch.
Me: Yeah or this, and this (Pointing to various objects)
(At this point there are four three seater couches lined up each in it’s own row. Me and him are sitting on the middle ones.) Behind me, this creepy scary dude grabbed my arm through the couch ((What??)) and laughed. He looked like Frankenstein… I used my lucid powers to make him leave. THATS ALL I USED THEM FOR. NOOO.
I Had THREE FA’s Not ONE. But THREE.
My other questions.
#1. Was this officially a lucid dream? I was completely aware of the dream. #2. While I was dreaming it was very vivid but when i concentrated to hard or my mind wandered, it faded to black. I had to RESTART the dream by imagining it all over again. I think it’s called Chaining? How can I get into the dream state that is ‘solid’ so to speak. Not when i can just fade out of it.
Hey, that was a cool 1st LD! Don’t worry, it just happens that sometimes we’re lucid but aren’t able to take full advantage of it. I bet you’ll have much more fun in your next one. Just keep practising!
I’m going to try my same method tonight…but i have a problem. I just badly bruised my nose today and i don’t know if i can sleep on my stomach again… but thats my problem lol, not your guys’s.
Does anyone have any tips for me?
Oh and one more time, cause these questions haven’t been answered yet.
How can I ‘solidify’ the dream? Last night it didn’t feel real…it felt incredibly fake to me though the surroundings were vivid and realistic. I knew in the back of my mind that I had to concentrate because if i didn’t the dream faded away…I woke up like that three times but caught myself and chained, putting myself back into my dream. Is this ‘fake’ feeling normal? Is this what you always get while lucid? It’s not a comfortable feeling and it gets boring and feels more like work then a fun, lucid dream.
Some dreams simply feel more real than others. Rest assured, they won’t always be this way, but the majority are always going to have that hazy “dream” feeling to them. For a lot of people, only a choice few LDs are perfectly clear and feel exactly like reality. Also no need to worry so much, trying to keep up that much concentration is just going to wake you up faster. Just try and remember you’re dreaming at all times and your brain will fill in the world around for you.
As to the FAs, I once had to record a LD 3 seperate times, in entirety, because every time I woke up and wrote it down, I would wake up again 2 min later and there would be nothing written down. When I finally did wake up after 4 or so FAs, there was nothing on the paper AND I’d forgotten most of the details of the dream.
Point is, everyone gets them, just don’t let it frustrate them or you’re probably going to get them more often.
Other notes: I can’t believe you’re mad after successfully WILDing after only one try and having your first LD like that. I can think of a thousand people on this forum that would kill you if they heard that.
Keep a list of the stuff you want to do, and take it one thing at a time. Don’t try to do more than one thing a night, because you’ll forget every single thing by the time you’re asleep. Concentrate on one small objective per LD, and you’ll always be able to do something fun. Good luck with future LDs!
The stairs thing where someone falls thing happens similar to me.
Basically whenever I think of blocks falling down 10 times, it’s impossible to keep them up in my mind!!! (Especially if the perspective is rotating around them!!!)
Your first lucid dream actually sounded like a really good one! My first two, I woke up almost immediately, and the third one I forgot what to do and just ended up making squares in the air with a black background =P
I just hope that if I have another lucid dream I can be sensible and try to do something. Anything. 
Just keep practising!