Hi all

I've been into lucid dreaming off and on for many years. 1st got into it about 20 years ago (I'm 40 now). In the last few years I've taken it off the back burner and committed to developing this as a faculty in my life. For my thesis in my MSc in mindfulness studies I looked at how lucid dreaming may assist in mindfulness training. I've had a lot of very rich lucid experiences, but it's certainly been a longer and slower journey than I might have expected. I have a goal of being able to have reliable, frequent and stable lucids. Certainly not there yet. Sometimes I may have a few weeks without lucidity, some weeks I may have a few lucids. I'd guess I have about 50-60 lucids per year.
My recall is generally quite good. When I'm on form I find myself waking after most sleep cycles with some recall and writing something. I'd like to get better at making v brief notes during the night. At the moment I don't tend to write until my last wake, which makes the night a bit more distant.
My most reliable induction method is do some amount of WBTB, then sleep in a different room and do a 61 point relaxation technique, allowing me to descend into sleep slowly then more often WILD, or perhaps DILD. I love the inbetween states that can occur on the journey to sleep this way. Trouble with it is both the effort and time to induce a lucid. Also I find if there is noise on the slow journey to sleep, I can be drawn back to senses and the waking world. I often can't find earplugs or don't feel like using them (but if I'm being determined I do). Another disadvantage is its harder to do with my partner beside me in bed. I'd like to be better at DILD to increase frequency of my lucidity and so general proficiency in the dream world, also so I can stay in my same bed. I still RC when anything strange happens but I don't do it with the frequency I used to, as I've kind of lost faith in my ability to DILD from these. I used to practice illusionary form in place of habitual reality checks which I loved doing

I came back onto dream views as thought I may find either a different technique to experiment with or somehow a different aproach to mix things up a bit. The structure of this workbook with feedback looks great to provide momentum, learning and something different.

My goals at the moment are
Become proficient at lucid dreaming (reliable induction, perhaps 3 -4 stable lucids per week). Stability...most of my lucids are short enough.

Within a dream, goals include
Entering deep sleep consciously (perhaps by dissolving the dreamscape with this intention)
Moving awareness between various dream creations and moving past identification with the dream body and ego.
Attempt to enter my mates dream (permission given).
Explore shadow (done this a couple of times within lucids)
Develop relationship with dream characters or a guide, (I've asked a number of times for one in a LD). Current Goal is to meet again with the woman I met on the other side of a mirror in a recent lucid dream.
I'd also like to play with General dream control. Teleportation summoning etc. I've only done each once I think. I called a friend into my dream (he will be behind this door). And semi teleported...created a portal on the wall and jumped through into a different world
Prime goal is just to become proficient at lucid dreaming so setting an active goal or activity would be good. Could be setting an alarm through the day and regular reality checks, working with dream signs (which I never felt good at), setting intent and 'next time I'm dreaming I will recognise I'm dreaming' mantra during the day or night...
Probably enough for an initial post. I'm not great at actually posting online, but perhaps this workbook will be part fuelling momentum and creating focus

All the best