Thread: new Dreamer checking in! (my experience and ramblings)

Hello all,

I've recently begun my quest for lucidity and have had some success. I've been at it for about two months on and off.

I used to haunt the Lucid4all forum but i find the community there to be not as vibrant as here, so I have registered here and plan on seeing how it goes.

There seems to be a lot more activity here in terms of replies and discussion. One user in particular db_fts was very helpful on the other forum, I hoped to open a larger discussion there but it didn't transpire.

I'm not sure if posting that discussion breaks forum rules, but i'll add the disclaimer that I only seek to enlighten readers of this thread to said discussion, with a view to continuing it here.

(apparently it is against the rules and I have removed the discussion)

Basically I just want to be part of the community and use your wealth and experience to assist my own quest for lucid dreams. I had primarily been attempting to use MILD, as written in La Berge's ETWOLD. I have compiled a dream journal of at least 30 dreams, some vivid some not, and have categories the dreams and was working on prospective memory exercises. This went on for the best part of a month with the only tangible success in that sometimes, my dreams are more vivid, and I am making a conscious effort to remember them. I decided to use MILD due to the fact that I have a very hectic life, I am a father of two and work days, my son wakes frequently in the night.

Then I found a great blog by Jamie Alexander Lucid Dreaming Experiments where he talks about using meditation to help raise awareness, something that I sorely lack. I have thus far day dreamed through my life, and in my dreams this is evident as I stubbornly refuse to entertain the fact I am dreaming, even in the face of complete absurdity.

This was really my first (excluding la berge) introduction to WILD, being used in the WILD so to speak. So I decided to maintain my DJ, and meditate every night at bedtime to raise my awareness. One night, I sporadically got my first lucid dream after the baby had woke, I went back to bed and within a couple of seconds of repeating my mantra, I was in a dream. But the dream is foggy, faded, not clear, no sound, but I definitely had awareness, because I knew I was dreaming and I was in control of my actions in that context.

I tried again for a week or so but could not replicate the Lucid Dream.

I then discovered a tutorial on here that actually resulted in my second lucid dream. As explained in the other thread, it was the CANWILD method. I set my alarm to go off at 90 minute intervals, and at the second alarm the same thing happened, I was whisked into the dream world, attempted some stabilization techniques, but still, the reports of LD being as reall as real life are not reflected in my dreams as yet. Funnily enough, I seem to have a vivid Normal Dream following every lucid dream, where the details are much clearer than my lucid dreams.

So thats where im up to, I try the CANWILD attempts wherever possible (my wife works nights and sometimes the baby sleeps more than 3 hours), i'm yet to have a MILD or DILD, which is very frustrating, although last night, I had a dream where my son was running, and I knew he is unable to walk, and I did sense an inkling that that wasn't right, but I couldn't make the connection. I remember thinking something along the lines of, "is this real? my son is unable to walk, perhaps ill wake up and he can walk." Hopefully this is a sign of my awareness being slightly raised after all this time.

So that's me anyway, if you read this far then thank you, I welcome any discussion on how I can improve, particularly from people with busy hectic lives, that found a way to make lucid dreaming a regularity.

Cheers!

DD.