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This is Day 15 into my LD experience, and as you can read in my Day 11 update I will be traveling to Ecuador for a month, where I hope to have my first LD. Today and yesterday I didn't post because I didn't remember any dreams or perhaps didn't make the proper effort to do so. I may post some entries as I will have limited access to the internet there. I will be instead keeping my dreams hand-written in my dream journal.

I feel like now i am able to recall my dreams at will, i always know how it will happen and what I have to do. I just lay in bed and ask myself what my dreams were, and they COME to me. Even when I'm sure I didn't have any, they will always come.

I could remember two dreams, they were both pretty vivid and LONG, I remember the first one in most detail and can't recall a lot of the second one.


I don't remember who I was, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't myself. I had recently out of the blue decided to escape wherever I was and run away. I was in this giant forest where there was a scientific facility. When there was no one around, I started running into the forest. I walked for a little bit, then the slope began to get higher and the foliage thicker. That was when I came to this huge ravine; the drop below was like a bottomless pit. It was all very beautiful however. When I was there, this helicopter flew over me and it was carrying this large what looked like white panel that was probably going to be used for construction. It fell off of the helicopter and came crashing down, taking a couple trees with it and went down into the ravine. I was scared the helicopter would see me, so I hide low among the trees. When the helicopter was gone, I ran, following the edge ravine and in the general direction of where I believed another facility to be. I eventually came to a building where there were lots of people. I managed to sneak in. At some points I had to fight people but I kept running towards the exit. Fast-forward after I pretty much escaped, I was in this Target (the store) and that was where I met this girl who must've been around 20ish, I was around the same age as her although as I previously stated, I wasn't the one having this dream. Anyway for some reason I asked her if she wanted to join me on the run and she said yes. It was decided, we did some things together for a little bit, then the dream fades.

Another dream I had that I was just remembering now; I was at this village with my father and it was getting to be nighttime, I went for a walk for some reason and my dad told me to be careful, I think he was warning me about werewolves and some other evil creatures. There was ALOT more to this dream but I simply can't remember it.

This is only my 11th day into my attempts to have a lucid dream; though I must say that it already feels like at least 2 weeks. I have decided to forget about actually becoming lucid, and focus more on my dream recall. This seems like one of the most important aspects when talking about lucid dreaming.I need to be able to remember my dreams before I even realize I am dreaming, or else I many not even recall having the dream. I have stopped performing reality checks so often and have been focusing on my dream journal. My goal for now is to remember at least 2 dreams a night consistently. Right now, I am remembering 1 per nights and perhaps a dream fragrant of a second. I find that recalling dreams in the morning is very peculiar; I need to just sit back and think about what I had dreamt the night before and my mind does the rest. At first it usually seems like I can't remember any dreams from the night before and this is discouraging. Then at least one dream just enters into my brain, and it seems silly how I could have even forgot about it. It feels like it's there all along, but hidden until my mind needs to find it. One aspect I'm having trouble with is lucidness(Not sure if this is the right term). It doesn't at all feel as detailed as real life in many of my dreams. Especially when I'm remembering them; it just doesn't feel as vivid. For example, in the main dream I have recorded today, I cannot remember the girls face, even though I feel like I knew her in my dream. No, they certainly don't feel as vivid as real life. This is a skill I hope to work on.

Now I am going to talk about my own possible dream signs. I only have about half a week's worth of dreams, but now I am going to try to take them and analyze the signs I may see them so for the future I can attain lucidity easier.

Themes I've Noticed in my Dreams:

1. Traveling
2. Family Members and Relatives
3. New York City

I'll give a brief explanation for each below.
1. In almost every dream there seems to be some sort of transportation. In my Day 11 dream, I was at a train station going back to NYC. In my Day 10 dream, I was also at a subway station for most of the dream. For Day 8, I was riding a bicycle. IN my Day 7 dream, I was in a car on the BQE.
2. In practically all of my dreams, every one except for the one today in fact, I was accompanied by some type of parent/guardian. This may be because I'm used to it as a 14 year old, I go places with adults and have for most of my life and until I become a true adult this may always be the case in my dreams; even when I go to college when there is no family around most of the time my mind may still take time to transition into knowing that I do not have a parent looking over my shoulder throughout my life.
3. New York City. This is where I was born and raised, however for most of this summer I will not be there, making it the ideal time to lucid dream. I am currently staying in NJ until the end of July; then I will be traveling to Ecuador for August. This means I should be able to recognize in a dream that I am not actually in NYC, though most of my dreams have taken place there.
*I will not be able to bring a computer to Ecuador, so I will not post here throughout August but will keep a hand written dream journal. When I return I will attempt to transfer a months worth of journal entries on here, but that may take some time obviously.

I haven't had any LDs or dreams that I could remember Night 5, though luckily I feel like I am finding it easier to fall asleep at my will through this process. I still cannot remember any dreams that I have had this past week, save for one I remembered Day 4 that I had Day 2 (this had to do with me walking the streets of NYC Houston Street and walking to a new school that may have taken place in my old one). My recollection of this dream is vague at best, at the time I did not at all realize it was a dream and even after waking up my mind failed to accept and remember that my experience was a dream. Tonight I am going to attempt to do WBTB and perhaps FILD or the technique that I previously posted but didn't go through with due to a technical malfunction. On my iPhone I have also downloaded a free app I believe is titled "Lucid Dreamer." It has a premium version that gives access to a "subliminator, reality checker, etc" and things of that nature. The subliminator is the one I find the most interesting. When I press start with the subliminator suggested, it shows a quick slideshow of short phrases and words such as "You are dreaming," "You can do it," "reality check," "control," and other places/lanscapes such as "Jungle" or "Forest." I stared at it for around 5 minutes throughout my day, and I question the validity of it. I will write an update tomorrow about my experience with dreaming tonight.

Just writing to update about what happened tonight. It is currently 4:34 AM on the 4th night of my attempts to Lucid dream. I was attempting this method: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreami...e_time_for_me/ and the strangest thing happened: the alarm didn't wake me up. I am not what one could say a "heavy" sleeper and majority of the time I am woken up by alarms. I still woke up, but it was at a different time then I was supposed to. I made the decision to stay up for the rest of the day in an attempt to rob my body of further REM cycles, so that they can be more potent the next day (this is another method I heard about) or so that I may be able to have a lucid dreaming if I decide to take a nap today.

This is the 4th night I have become interested in becoming lucid in my dreams; I have also decided to restart my dream journal into this site. My other 3 nights have been unsuccessful in becoming lucid in my dreams, I have even failed to remember my dreams for the past 3 nights. This suggests that I need to work on my dream recall more before I even have a lucid dream. Here are the techniques that I used when attempting to LD my previous nights; understand that before these days I have had no experience with LDing whatsoever and am complete newbie to this:

1. FILD
2. DILD
3. DILD
4. Tonight I plan to use a method found on reddit, I will post the link below

Here is the link to the technique I plan to use tonight: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreami...e_time_for_me/
It reminds me of the WBTB method quite a bit but seems more directed in a sense, I will see how it goes tonight.