Thread: General newbie looking for guidance. Appreciate all replies :)

Welcome! Sounds like you're off to a great start. A great feature of DV is the Dreamviews Academy: sign up for the intro or DILD class or anything that looks interesting to you there and you can keep a workbook thread and get feedback from the wonderful, friendly, helpful teachers there ().

By all means, start trying WILD. Every LDer should have this tool (and DEILD, and of course DILD) in their LD toolkits.

Just remember LD practice is a journey of self discovery relating to sleep, dreaming, and consciousness, that takes place over a lifetime.

Daytime practice of RCs + mindfulness is great. Nighttime practice you may want to add try adding WBTB, and learning to notice the little wakings during the night.

Keep up the recall and the journaling. In time, the dreams keep getting more and more vivid, present, and lucidity starts popping in more and more.

edit: all LD practitioners should read LaBerge's Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming.

My personal opinion is that multi-vitamins help sometimes, but only if you're deficient in something. Once you're "full up" they don't help much IMO.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Welcome! Sounds like you're off to a great start. A great feature of DV is the Dreamviews Academy: sign up for the intro or DILD class or anything that looks interesting to you there and you can keep a workbook thread and get feedback from the wonderful, friendly, helpful teachers there ().

By all means, start trying WILD. Every LDer should have this tool (and DEILD, and of course DILD) in their LD toolkits.

Just remember LD practice is a journey of self discovery relating to sleep, dreaming, and consciousness, that takes place over a lifetime.

Daytime practice of RCs + mindfulness is great. Nighttime practice you may want to add try adding WBTB, and learning to notice the little wakings during the night.

Keep up the recall and the journaling. In time, the dreams keep getting more and more vivid, present, and lucidity starts popping in more and more.

edit: all LD practitioners should read LaBerge's Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming.

My personal opinion is that multi-vitamins help sometimes, but only if you're deficient in something. Once you're "full up" they don't help much IMO.

Thank you!

I will definitely sign up it is nice to have a platform to adhere to

You're definitely off to a wonderful start. Ditto everything FryingMan recommended.
As you continue, test out the different techniques more and more and get a feel for which one brings you the most success. Certain techniques work better for some than others, and all of them have their pros and cons, so don't feel obliged to stick to the one you're good at constantly.
Keep up the good work, and happy dreaming!

Sounds like your doing a good job of things so far, keep up the hard work and I'm sure it will pay off.

Perhaps grab yourself some vitamin B and take before you go to sleep. Melatonin is a good one too.

Don't know if you have heard of him but Eckhart Tolle is the master when it comes to mindfulness. Check out some of his vids on youtube. There's an awesome book he wrote called "The power of now" well worth the read.

I think even more important than formal meditation is post meditation--how mindful are you on a moment-by-momement basis? How often do you question whether or not your current experience could be a dream experience? I think this, along with actively recognizing dream signs and keeping a positive attitude, is the key to having more lucid dreams. But definitely continue the sitting meditation. It will help set the stage for the main event