Several Attempts at Lucid Dreams???

Date: 5/31/2016

I had woken up and fallen back asleep many times in the night and thus had multiple lucid dreams.... One in which I was in a park with all the people in my PE class, and I realized I was in a dream. I then got excited and could feel the dream closing in on me, so I sat down on the grass and tried to "ground myself" by focusing on how the grass felt, etc. I stood up again and tried pushing my hand through a tree by slapping my hand too it, which hurt like hell! I winced and my friend started laughing and saying that I wasn't going to be able to do that. I told her that I should be able to, this was my dream. I was only able to keep the dream from collapsing if I was talking and looking at her, if I did something else, I would feel the dream start to fade away. --- Another lucid dream I had was where I was in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum, where I had always wanted to go to again because they have the best McDonald's in America. After snap chatting myself in front of the McDonald's, me and my family go inside. There is a model of a dinosaur inset inside the wall, although the fact that it was in the air and space museum and not the natural history museum didn't tip me off that it was a dream. I realized it was a dream because it became increasingly difficult to read the plaque on the wall next to it. My parents were getting mad because I wouldn't hurry up (as they do in real life) but I told them that this was fake. Then they got really mad and we began to leave the museum. Then suddenly (I lost lucidity at this point) I was with another family, running down the stairs. The sun was about to run into the earth and while there was no way to not die, everyone was still trying. I realized that it was a dream and left my family because I wanted to go back to the museum but when I got to the top a tsunami was occurring (on dry land) throwing the building around and stuff. I was majorly pissed (because I never got to go to the gift store) and got into my parents car and left. A third dream I had where I realized i was in a dream was when I was at a detention center because my aunt had stolen some stuff out of a store. I was mad because I didn't want to go with her. She told me to stop whining. When we got there, there were a bunch of teenaged girls complaining about having to be there. One girl was trying to get from a high platform to a lower platform. I went to help her . It was really awkward because she almost fell and I grabbed her breast on accident trying to save her which wasn't really a problem for me lol but she was not happy about and ended up just sliding down the wall. There were other dreams where I was temporarily lucid but I do not remember details. If you were around to read that whole thing (props to you!) then I have some questions for you: 1. How do you "ground yourself" while in a lucid dream? Usually I've been good at it and haven't needed too but lately my dreams have been greying out. 2. How do you change places in a dream? The spinning thing doesn't really work for me and I can't change them with magic or whatever. 3. Do you do the method of lucid dreaming where you stay aware when going to sleep / focusing on a plot ? How has that worked for you?