Hey everyone! Hopefully the right forum.

Ive been very interested in Lucid dreaming for quite a while. Ive read this really good book about how the brain works (cant remember the title) and im very interested in all of the stuff out there about the brain and dreams.

Ive had lucid dreams before, not knowing that these dreams where actually "lucid dreams". I explained to my parents that I had controlled my dreams and they said that it was impossible. It was great for me, it was mainly when I had nightmares - I would make it so that the bad things would stop or change somehow. I first found the whole lucid thing when a friend gave me a link to an interesting website on the topic. Ive tried a few techniques for Attaining Lucidity, like having a recording play at night to remind me im dreaming and also some hypnosis. I find it hard to do reality checks as I haven't found one I like or remember to do often enough. I had one experience where I realised that I was lucid dreaming and got soo exited that I woke up. I have a dream diary now and have had quite a few vivid dreams and it had been great to write them down (havent been always successful in writing all of them down) - quite a few pages of dreams. Recently though ive had alot of very short dreams of just one thing or idea and they seem like very normal things in life. Other times, I try to control the dreans but the control only lasts for a very short amount of time and then it goes back to an uncontrollable dream.

My questions are, any tips for getting better at Attaining Lucidity and better dream memory? (i may join the adoption program later)

Another experience Ive also had recently that id like to share and see if anyone has anything similar - is that sometimes I can go to sleep and drop straight into dreams. Only problem is that I dont have any control. Also something more wierd is doing this and then dreaming of people talking and waking in the middle of this and the voices seem so vividly real. Freaky and cool. Anyone else?