this dream started out as kind of a nightmare:  I dreamt that I found a dead body in the creepy guy in the neighborhoods house:  So I ran out and it was just me scared of being caught by the creepy guy:  Then it switched gears a little:  When I was hiding out, I ran to the popular house in the neighborhood where friends would go to hang out:  My friend that I met in Italy, Nate, was there, and for some reason I also had a video camera:  Somehow I figured out that I was in a dream because I kind of got that familiar feeling:  I wondered if I would start flying around but I didn't want to do that:  I wanted to test the limits of this now lucid dream:  so I thought about the consequences of saying out loud to the people in the room that I was in a dream:  I thought that maybe the dream would fade away or I could wake up.  I then wondered where I could be sleeping at:  Am I just on my couch passed out?? I imagined myself sleeping on my couch and then yelled to everyone in the room, "Hey THIS IS A DREAM!" so then Nate looked at me and said "Not too loud you'll wake yourself up" I then started thinking about the dram tests that you can do to see if you're really dreaming.  I looked down at the digital clock on the camera and saw that the numbers were all screwed up.  So then the lights in front of me went out and then the lights beside me went out and then everything went dark:  Then I was in a different room and a girl I know (who will remain nameless here) sat beside me:  I asked her if she wanted to kiss and she said yes so we started making out and then she wanted to take it to the bedroom so I picked her up and ran to the bedroom but when I got there I was now holding a dog:  This dissapointed me so i threw the dog down in anger:  Later I dreamt that Nate was working in Wal Mart and he had to go to the back of the store to clean something up so I followed him back and as we were walking I started doing the light test:  I started turning all the lights on and off and they didn't work the way lights should they just kinda dimmed and then came back on:  After all this I suddenly awoke on the bus on our way to France:  I thought back to earlier when I wondered if I was sleeping on my couch or not, and realized that I am no where near my couch.