I regularly attended this board from january this year to about April/May-ish, I'm not entirely sure. This is the first time I've been back here since then. I first started a dream journal which is currently a few hundred miles from my current location right now. Through this site, I was able to achieve my first lucid dream in about 2 weeks from when I first started keeping a journal and doing RC's. I was hoping I could continue this trend and continue to more advanced forms of achieving LDing like WILD's and stuff but I kept coming so close only to fail every time.
I was in 12th grade during this time so with a normal sleeping schedule of going to bed at about 10:30 and waking up at 6 (9-10 on the weekends), I was able to keep a steady cycle of when to attempt LDing and when to just work on remembering dreams. But slowly, I unknowningly showed signs of forgetfullness in doing RC's and remembering to write in my journal. At one point, I put my journal down next to my bed on the table and never touched it again.
I'm now a freshman in college at Penn State University - Main campus. My home is a few hundred miles east on Long Island, NY. My college experience hasn't lived up to everything I was hoping for and I feel I should try getting back to this.
But there are a few concerns for me.
1. Should I just start a new journal or wait until I go back home during thanksgiving to retrieve my old/current one, skip a page from my last entry and start a new chapter? (not a big deal, but it would also be a waste of a lot of paper. There was a little more than half the book left I think. But that would mean I postpone my starting of this until the end of November)
And the big and most important question/concern.
2. This is college. I have a roommate who doesn't go to bed the same time I do. He doesn't get back to the room at 3 AM but still later than me which could affect my attempts to do various types of _ILDing. And not just that, because the 10:30 bed thing was sort of a rule my mom enforced, that means that in the 2+ months I've been here, I haven't gone to bed at that time at all.
Anybody here in college but still able to persistantly get all their dream stuff done?
:) Thank you. And hello again to everybody even though most likely noody here probably remembers me. :)