Hey Griffin, I really like your take on the Dream Journal method... I keep a journal, but not as accurately as I really should. I've neva thought of using a dream journal as an actual method in itself... I'm kind of in the same boat as Raven... I've tried lots of techniques pretty hard... WILD, WBTB, MILD etc, but so far any lucidity I've had has happened randomly without any real conscious effort on my part...

I think that the part about it that would be the most effective is reading over the dreams during the day adn thinking about them, because it would help to involve me in my dreams and get me thinking about them more. One of the problems I seem to have with convincing myself to do reality checks is taht no matter how hard I convince myself, when I'm asleep my mind jsut blocks all of that thought out and I'm dead to the world - vivid, expansive dreams, but no logic voice telling me to do a reality check.

I think I will try that from now on... keep writing in my journal religiously and vividly, and see what happens... maybe after a week I'll try some WBTB MILD's again, and see how they go after the extra effort. For some people it seems to come easily, unfortunatley for others it's not the case, and so the best way is through hard work...