dolphin's dreams

Welcome to my dream journal! I'm still relativily new to lucid dreaming. I've had some lucid dreams here and there by chance but nothing until recently purposely induced by any technique. My curiosity compelled me to surf the web and caused me to stumble upon this great site! I lurked around for a bit and tried some techniques to find something that worked. Trial and error caused me to discover a simple technique that made one of my first fully lucid dreams almost effortless! This success really motivated me and let me know that I can do this. So like many others, my goal is to master lucid dreaming.

My goal is to dream about whatever I want whenever I want. Whose isn't! After a bit of thought, acheiving this goal comes down to mastering two things...

Lucid Dream Induction Technique-to dream whenever I want
Dream Control- to dream whatever I want

Mastering my Lucid Dream Induction Technique
My new lucid dream induction technique inspired me on this quest to master lucid dreaming. My technique is simple. I simply think "I'm dreaming" as many times as possible as I'm falling asleep. When I enter a dream, the very first thing that comes to my mind is "I'm dreaming" which immediately causes me to become lucid. As of right now I've only tested this technique once. But, it worked so well that I feel it will be reliable in the long haul. If this technique ends up failing consistantly I'll have to find a new technique but I'm convinced the former will work. As I have tested this technique only once, it might evolve over time if I find ways to improve it.

Mastering my lucid dream induction technique and dreaming whenever I want means mastering these things...

Technique Reliablity
How reliable the technique is. The success/fail ratio.
Dream Recall
I know dream recall has nothing to do with my lucid dream induction technique but if I can't remember my dreams, I can't have any lucid dreams!

Mastering Dream Control
To me to be able to dream whatever I want to me is the essence of dream control. My dream control as of right now is not too good and is the place I can most improve. After a bit of thought, mastering dream control consist of mastering the control these things
Environment
The setting and all the important objects of the dream.
Plot
The storyline of the dream and all the characters, including myself.
Dream Quality
This is the quality of the vividness and the stabalization of the lucid dream.

Occasionally to see where I am I'll give myself a score on each category (1-5) to see where I am and where I can improve. When I give myself a 5 in all categories I'll have achieved my goal! Here are my initial scores
Lucid Dream Induction Technique
Technique Reliablilty-5
Dream Recall-3
Dream Control
Environment-1
Plot-2
Dream Quality-4

In future journal entries I will only post lucid dreams and a bit of commentary when needed.

That's it for now, gotta go to sleep