Okay. I'm ready to get back into this.
I was on this site years ago under a different username. I wanted to start with a clean slate because my old account was from when I was much younger. I'm a bit older and much more mature now.
I have managed to lucid dream, and it's like that mirage in the desert I keep chasing after. Never quite had the fortitude to manage it, and when it did happen I was never quite in control of it. But that's okay. That was in the past, and this is in the now.
My first step is to pick up logging my dreams in a dream journal again. That really does help recall. I'm making this something of my New Year's Goal to try and have at least 1 lucid dream next year. Baby steps. Very small baby steps.
Life caught me up in a swirl.
Like, I moved from America to South Korea.
And I'm on Accutane (a generic of it, but same thing) right now. I'm fatigued, exhausted, and it always feels like no sleep is enough sleep. I can conk out for 9+ hours straight and it just isn't enough.
Have to keep trucking, though. Only got about a month and two weeks left on those meds.
But I've noticed my dream recall is absolutely terrible. Sometimes I get vague snippets, other times I can remember my dreams. . . most of the time I can't. And it's kind of disheartening, because I loved dreaming, remembering everything. . .
It's been 4 months since I moved here. I'm adjusted to the food, the lifestyle, the people. . . Could there still be some lingering stress killing it for me? I don't know.
Tonight I'm going to start a dream journal. Tomorrow I'm going to buy a dedicated journal to keep for my bedside. I'll get there. Slowly but surely. Hopefully.