Hello Everyone!

I have been working on my LD practice in the Intro Class, but I feel it's now time to step things up a bit so I decided to give this group a try.

I have been working seriously on LD since 2014, but I've had long dry spells due to the stress of graduate school. During the times I've been really focused, I've experienced surprising success. I've had 80+ LDs since January 2014, including several WILDs. WILDs are amazing, but the majority of my success has been with DILD and DEILD, so I'd really like to sharpen my focus on this kind of induction. I've also had success using supplements, namely galantamine/choline, but I've not used it in a while.

I've come to realize lately that my biggest obstacle is motivation. This is often the result of stress in my life, but I also realize that I need new and challenging goals to keep my momentum going. I feel confident in my ability to have lucid dreams, so now I want to go deeper by broadening and sharpening my skill set, and learning how to explore the full potential I believe this practice has for personal and spiritual growth.

Successes so far:

basic stabilization, including clapping hands
basic summoning
simple anti-gravity
walking through closed doors and windows
spinning to alter dream scene
speaking out loud directly to the dream
talking directly to DC
faced nightmare themes
WILD

Some of my long term goals are:

improve consistency of LD (return to previous 2-3 per week, minimum)
maintain high level lucidity states (I've had periods of only low level states, which is annoying and frustrating)
increase length of LDs
master summoning
master flying
visit outer space
learn to teleport
communicate directly with my higher self

I currently use the following techniques:

micro-WBTB
mantra
daily RC, including the use of the RC tattoo on my arm
counting to sleep (after WBTB alarm)

Things I need to improve:

daily dream journal
increase WBTB time instead of micro sessions

Ok, that's it for now. Thanks for reading!