Hi everyone. New to DV, excited to begin my journey towards mastering lucid dreaming! I've read extensively on the subject of lucid dreaming the past couple of days deciding if this is something I want to invest effort into learning how to do. Because I have not experienced any vivid lucid dreams for myself, it really is beyond comprehension to me that people actually do experience intensely vivid environments during a lucid dream, so I am excited to experience this for myself. I have a couple of questions that I have not found answers to while looking:

I have naturally really good dream recall. Every morning I wake up recollecting anywhere from 1 to 3 dreams. However, all these recalled dreams share a commonality in which they all occurred in the morning right before I wake up. I understand that this is perfectly normal because I read that REM sleep is increased right before you wake up. My question is, can you lucid dream early in the night and still remember the experience several hours later when morning comes? Or do all memorable lucid dreams occur during the last hour or two before you naturally awaken?

Also another question I have is, if you have multiple lucid dream episodes in the same night, when in the second or third episode, can you recall your first lucid dream of the night within the subsequent lucid dream episode? And do you also have a sensation of how much time passes between different episodes of lucid dreams within the same night?


Also, just how real can sensory perception get inside of a lucid dream. I did read that people say that with enough practice lucid dreams can feel every bit as vivid as real waking life. Does that mean that if you are standing outside you can feel a slight breeze against you, feel the earth between the toes of your feet, yell out loud in a chamber and hear the reverberating sound waves of the echos of your voice, etc? It's so hard to wrap my mind around this as being possible since even all of my dreams no matter how fantastical have always had a hazy quality to it that lacked detailed sensory stimuli.

One last question I have is that, in all of the dreams I recall, its almost as if I am looking at myself in 3rd person. Kind of like playing an mmo or rpg with your avatar in 3rd person view. In lucid dreams, is this also the case?