I also have a bit of lucid control in my dreams. I often realize that I'm in a dream and as described above, a time limit seems to take effect. An annoying blur to waking up that keeps pushing itself ever so closer to making you wake up every time you seem to take more control.
I remember this...
3 weeks ago alone, I played the wee gee board board on a table in my garden on a dark cold night. Nothing was happening for the first 15 minutes until the board started to communicate, it spelt out 'halflife2 net'. Could not sleep all night wondering what this meant, so the next morning I...