Welcome to my journey!

After 2 weeks of reading and enjoying other people's journals, I thought it would be interesting and helpful to keep my own diary of both dreams and actions I take to attaining lucidity. I've had 2 very brief LD's since I joined and that felt so great, that I'm willing to try all things possible to experience that again and again.

I have some troubles with 'beginnings', plus english is not my native language, so this first post is quite a struggle for me. I hope the writing will get easier with practice.

Normal dreams will be written in this standard type, lucids in blue, actions taken to enhance dreaming or induce lucidity in orange and my thoughts or comments about a dream in italic. I'm also trying to recognise dream signs, which I'll underline.

It's 6 in the morning now, I only have 10 minutes left of my WBTB waking time. Dream recall of the first part of the night is still difficult, hope to improve that over time. The only thing I remember from my dream 20 minutes ago is that I felt exciting, like going on holiday and there was someone giving me instructions. And I saw our cat running around in my dreams, but that could be because he was jumping around the bed IRL when I woke up.

The previous night I had my second very short LD. Even shorter than the first one, but every 10 seconds of it was worth the effort.

After reading several topics on DV thoughout the day, I went to bed just after midnight. Set my alarm at 5am. Wrote down some vage memories of the dream I just woke up from. In bed I read a page of Twoshadows's dream journal on my MDA (quite hard on this small screen) before trying to WILD. I couldn't get further than 'halfway' SP (feeling fake-paralised). So when I looked at my watch and saw half an hour had past without any result, I decided going to sleep normally and hope for a DILD, which happend shortly after entering my dream!
I was in my friends house, in front of a door. I thought 'when I open the door, I'll see my ex-boyfriend' (which I really did NOT want to see, I haven't seen him IRL for years allthough he still lives in the same village, have bad memories about him). So I opened the door, no ex-BF to be found, but lucidity instead!
I started yelling 'I am lucid, I am lucid!' and thought 'oh, I need to stabilise my dream by touching things'. I was in the middle of the room, the walls were too far away so I sort of tripped over and fell on the ground. The falling didn't hurt and the carpet on the floor felt really real. It was a rough, antracite color carpet. Also I found a CD case, something like this:

but than empty and LP-size. As I was touching it and amazed myself about how real this all was, I suddenly realised I couldn't feel my legs. It was if they were floating or tingling. That feeling woke me up But with the happy feeling of having a lucid experience again.

Wow, allmost 45 minutes past since waking and a lot longer post than I intended. I'd better go back to bed now.