Thread: The story of ...

This thread is meant for people to post the story of their oneironaut life. It should be an interesting read. Make it as big as possible. Succes, failures, techniques used, things u found out, ... Anything I'll start

It was the evening of January 4th,2011. I was chilling in my room, browing the app store on my Ipod touch. I came across this Inception app. It said something about controlling dreams. I decided to install it. It turned out to be nothing of interest, but the idea of controlling dreams got to me. I realized I could do anything I wanted in dreams. I used google and came across this epic website. Logged in, read through pretty much everything, and started right away.
I started off by keeping a Dream Journal and doing reality checks. Sure enough, after as little as four days, I had my first LD. I was doing some jedi style fighting when I realized I was dreaming. It lasted quite long, but it wasn't vivid and I couldn't do much. it was still epic though After a minute or 2 the dream stopped thanks to a failed stabilization. Stability would remain a big issue.
I think the next big breakthrough was the thread on ADA by KingYoshi.It came out near the end of March 2011 I believe. I tried it out and it worked right away. It just felt epic and worked wonders for me. I loved and I would use it up to the day of today and probably a lot longer. In the month of July, it gave me SEVENTEEN LD's! I still haven't broken that record (the coming month for sure ).
At one point, I also found out about a certain DEILD method. It has been mentioned multiple times on this forum, it's all in a free ebook my Michael Raduga. That one also worked quite well for me. I still practice it during holidays, as I can sleep longer during those, so I get more opportunities to DEILD. I mainly do it because WILDs are often way more vivid than DILDs. I experienced that myself at one point as well (again not sure when exactly). I woke up, started visualizing (I had read something about visualization on this forum the day before that). Then suddenly I felt the visualization becoming real. Shamefully enough, dream-me didn't know the word 'stabilization' back then, so it ended after a few seconds. It was awfully vivid though.
Lately, as in a few weeks ago, I started a little research on the effects of ADA on memorization. As for the reason why: I've always been able to memorize things quikly and correctly. When I started ADA, it felt very similiar to my way of memorization somehow. I wanted to find out if you can turn that around, in other words: use ADA to learn how to memorize things quikly. The research was quite a succes, but has fallen a bit dead now. If you want to participate, follow the link below this post.
Apart from that I can only really mention the succes I got from a technique that bases itself on confidence (yes I'm speaking of Silverbullet's thread here).
So, as for now: during holidays, I work on the DEILD technique (= Michael Raduga's 'indirect techniques'). During the day (every day: holidays, weekends, normal weekdays,...) I use ADA. In weekend and normal weekdays I also keep a DJ to make my ADA more effective. Perhaps I will start practicing the DEILD in weekends as well, but I guess I'll have to see about that. I also think I found my way out of my issues with stabilization, so that's a good thing. Shame I haven't had a lucid in a while to try it out though Will do that tonight. I will post some links to the threads and techniques mentioned in this story below.

LINKS
All Day Awareness
My research on the link between ADA and memorization
Silverbullet's thread
Michael Raduga's technique (<-- This link is an external one. You can download the ebook for free on the top of the website. He calls it OBE, why he does that becomes apparent in his book. I recommend to read all of it, although you should be focussing on what he calls the 'indirect techniques'. He emphasizes that himself throughout the book enough though )


So... what about you guys? Please post your story below

EDIT: It's also a good idea to add your reason for LDing. My own is that I find the real world too boring. LD is my way to do epic stuff and spice it all up a bit.