Hi everyone,

I'm new to dreamviews and looking for advice.

In a nutshell, a couple of years ago I bought Steven LaBerge's book "exploring the world of lucid dreaming" and instantly became fascinated by these wonderful stories of lucid dreaming before trying it out for myself. After a couple of weeks my dream recall was exceptional and I could recount each and every little detail of my night time adventures. My first and only lucid dream happened in the following way:

"I was having dinner at my ex girlfriends house and my friend walked in. After greeting him and talking for a while something didn't feel right. 'Ben', I said 'that's all great and everything but didn't you ski off a cliff and die last year?'. 'Oh yeah', he replied 'sorry mate, i'm dead'. 'I must be dreaming', I thought to myself. BANG, I woke up in the dream and the sensation of lucidity was surprisingly intense. I instantly thought back to the book 'what do I do now?' (but unfortunately I hadn't read that far so things went slightly wrong)

Whilst I carried on eating, I noticed that nobody else at the table wasn't saying a word. They were just staring at me. I looked my ex girlfriend in the eye and everything went terribly wrong. Her face went grey and shriveled up whilst her mouth opened so wide her jaw hit the table. The dream was fading but I couldn't escape. I jumped backwards through the wall and woke up in a sweat. My heart was beating quickly and it took me a couple of minutes to calm down. I have never felt fear like that in my life and after deciding I was tampering with something far more powerful than I had imagined I decided to never do it again.

2 years on my curiosity has led me back to LD. I now want more than everything to face my fears and learn how to have pleasant LD's. So here are my questions:

1. Since i've already had a LD, how hard is it to do again?

2. I already have a list of dreamsigns, can anyone suggest how to recognize them whilst dreaming? My signs are: Dead people, old school friends, being chased, tornadoes.

3. If anyone can relate to the above story and decided to return to lucid dreaming it would be great to hear your story/advice.

Thanks a lot for reading.

I look forward to hearing peoples point of view.