The first foothold of Arch.

Three very short non lucid dreams, this was one before and two after I gave up after a failed wild (I went to bed too late)

First dream I can barely remember, it was before I wbtb and I didn't bother trying to remember at the time, I believe it was something to do with nature and a creature of some sort.

Second dream was about a game with a friend, my friend was riding an elephant and killed me for the funnies, so I went back and killed her. We then went and stole an item from this strange chest which had small clear plastic bags with items inside. A battle was happening somewhere in the city so we went to fight.

Thrid dream I was at the gym with my friends from school and some other girls mainly from the year below. I had just decided to start working on my arms by bench pressing a curl bar, and I kept sliding off the edge for some reason.

Non-Lucid
Was very clear at the time but I can't remember much, I remember doing several SAW like puzzles with my friends, where we had to obtain keys to open the door, although I wasn't enjoying the idea of dying I was pretty good at finding the keys, there would be traps in sofas, floors, doors the lot, and after activating a trap you might find a key in the trap. I think there was some side plot about the man who made the traps having captured someone dear to me, but whenever we found a key or made a loud noise the "man" would come running, and you could hear his foot steps - pretty creepy. On one of the puzzles there were spikes on the ground, and I had just found a key when what seemed to be the son of the puzzle maker came in holding a sythe in both hands, I dropped the key in fear and it went among the spikes. I went to lunge for the key and so did the boy, I only just managed to get they key when he lapsed a sythe round my arm which had the key and began to make a twisting action. For some reason I gained confidence here and twisted my hand and broke the sythe away from the boy, and I ran off with it. Being separated from the people I was with, I aimed to get to the flag (if you raise the flag you get to go out.) The sythe I had, had turned into a cleaver for some reason. I began to raise the flag, although I could hear footsteps coming up the stairs to my right, I paniced and looked over my shoulder, the man and his son were there.

I didnt have enough time to raise the flag so I threw the cleaver at the man, it missed. He picked up the cleaver and killed me. I also remember having a M9 hand gun which shot air rifle pellets, pretty useless, I got into a fight in another puzzle with the man where I killed him and his partner (who had a small gun which also fired pellets - I know because he shot me in the forehead which didnt do much for some reason) the partner claimed to me that I had betrayed him, although he did not realise that he had been betrayed by the puzzle master. He broke my nose bot I managed to kill him. I woke up after feeling my nose and realising it was broken.

Created this account because I didn't like my last username, also I wanted a fresh start on here, and I want to charter my progress from the very beginning.
I have little experience of lucid dreaming, although I have read many guides and I am familiar of many techniques.
I will write my dreams and attempts here, although most will be fails I expect at the start, I think it will be usefull if I am successful to show people the progress of someone starting from the very beginning.

09/08/2011 - Tomorrow morning I'll be attempting a WILD WBTB, going to go to sleep at 12 and wake up at 6am. I did fail last night, although I am learning from every experience, so far I think the best way to achieve WILD is to chill out, not be excited, try to almost fall asleep yet remain aware.