Hi all,

This is my first post and last night was my first night on my journey to achieve lucid dreaming. I'd say I'm a moderately vivid dreamer and have had random lucid dreams about twice in the past four years or so. I just picked up 'Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming' and read the chapters for prepping to Lucid Dream.

So last night I went to bed at midnight. Set my alarm to wake me at 4:30. Loaded a dream journal app onto my iPad (Dreams) and had it open and ready by the bed. I had a fairly extensive and vivid dream that I remembered quite well when I woke up.

Only thing is, I dreamed that I wrote it down

I realized this about 5 times and kept thinking I was writing it down for real but I was still dreaming. When I finally did wake up my dream was gone. All I could remember to write down was that it took place in a big, rented house. I can only now remember that I once remembered something.

Is this common? Hopefully just beginner rockiness? I've recalled dreams easily before without trying to. Maybe I'm just trying too hard?