Welcome to DILD class!
 Originally Posted by jasstar
I've been debating whether or not to post here, because all the other people that have seem to be teenagers (I'm in my thirties.. suddenly I feel old!)
Don't feel old, I;m older than you. But I won't tell, if you won't.
 Originally Posted by jasstar
I'll say right now that I'm a bit obsessive - I have the good fortune of owning a sleep monitoring device that tracks when I'm in light, REM and deep sleep with fairly good accuracy. I've been putting all this information into a spreadsheet and tracking it along with my dream journal entries and lucid dream counts. I've been doing this since early December 2012 and I'm up to 62 recalled dreams, 11 of them being lucid to some degree (ie: became aware that I was dreaming, but not necessarily able to control them.)
That's nice. I keep a fairly detailed dream journal, with time of bed, time of waking up from a dream, supplements taken, etc.
You can have different levels of control in a LD, or even none.
 Originally Posted by jasstar
I've toyed with a few of the methods mentioned on DV and I think I've decided that I'm going to stick with DILD as it's been the only one that I've actually achieved any LDs with. I'm fairly inconsistent with my RCs - I try and do them every hour or so which is easy when I'm at work, but at home I have a small child which means I very rarely get the time to do them. A couple of days ago I discovered RDAT and so I'm trying to incorporate that with my RCs whenever I cam. I'm also trying to perfect a mantra at the moment - my current one is "I will recognise my dream signs" and then I go through a couple that have appeared quite frequently in my dreams. I'm not sure how successful this is going to be though - most of the time I encounter a dream sign in a dream it just passes me by.
RDAT - do you mean reverse RC from sageous, or form mine Collection of techniques.
Whichever you have read, I recommend you read the other one, too.
There is a fairly quick and easy awareness + RC, that's just mental. Look around as if you were in a dream, think to yourself "if this was a dream, that [something] would be [something else]. And expect it to change. You can make it fun too, like "that tv would be 92 inch flat screen, or there is a 6-pack in a fridge when I open it) Just anything that sounds fun to you.
But the looking at hands and counting fingers is extremely powerfull RC, so do that when you get a chance.
Your mantra -
Mantras work the best in present tense. For a dream sign mantra to work, you would have to RC every time you see it in waking life. That's how it will trigger RCing in a dream when yo see it. I really like the hands RC plus hands mantra. If you pick one, I would recommend you start with this one. it's an old classic and it's great, because you have your hands with you all the time in a dream, no need to go look for something or wait for a dream sign.
You can also RC at random times - post #7 in this thread
 Originally Posted by jasstar
Anyway, I'm here because there's no one else that I can talk to about this without being thought of as quite mad 
Unfortunatelly, that's how it is for majority of us. Think of it as a secret, exclusive club, not that many people have access to.
 Originally Posted by jasstar
My goals are to increase my LD count, make them a little bit more reliable and also to increase my stability and control (I've had one beautifully long and controlled LD, but the rest seem to last for less than a minute and I have very little say in how they go.)
Most of the people have short LDs most of the time. We get lucid the easiest when our minds are starting to wake up. That's why it's so easy to wake up from a lucid, unfortunatelly. Plus, it's such a strange and new state for our minds, that it takes lots of practice to make them more stable and longer.
So ask if you have any questions and post your progress. happy dreams
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