My first experience lucid dreaming was long before I knew what it was or had ever heard of the term. I was five, but I wasn't restricted with movies--so I had recently seen the Nightmare on Elm Street movie. I dreamed about Freddie chasing my mother and I, trying to kill us. Then I stopped and said "Wait a minute. This is just a dream. I don't enjoy it, so I'm going to wake up now." And so I woke up. It wasn't much later that I would realize that I was in a dream and decide to change things rather than wake up. I didn't really have full control, but I was able to manipulate quite a lot. So far as an adult, I have only had one or two occasions where I realized I was dreaming within the dream--but I haven't been able to change things or create something different.