Started with becoming lucid about 2 months ago. I've had one lucid dream so far. (one in which I was able to influence everything and was aware, it lasted for about 30 seconds) I've had a lot of dreams coming close to becoming lucid, yet somehow subconciously choosing not to become lucid. (either by reacting on a change in the dream and accepting it, or just enjoying the dream)
I was close to becoming lucid but school started and *looks innocent* that means I lost the discipline of trying WBTB but even without that I still have a lot of dreams to become almost/close to lucid.

What I've been experiecing in my dreams this week is that they're overall a lot more grim, scary perhaps even horrorful. A friend of mine who once had experienced with ld-ing told me this happened to him, that somehow because of the lucidness the mind has to counter it with "negative" dreams. I've only remembered what he told me when I mentioned my dreams to him today, so it wasn't something that I had convinced myself of.

Is this normal?
I understand that if I further become lucid I will be able to shake those dreams off but they're pretty disturbing images. They don't disturb me in the dreams themselves but when I wake up and think back on them they áre disturbing.

Also, the way I recall dreams has changed. I used to be able to recall everything in the morning or after every dream when I wrote them down. Now I can only do that to half of them, the other half comes back to me through the day. (today I picked up a dvd, saw an actor, and all of a sudden remembered I dreamt about a movie he was in).

just me :-)