Hello Caenis, Thanks for the interest in my post : ) and I'm going to try and answer a few of the questions you have for me. I do have some short term goals as well some of which I have already reached. Like having a lucid dream was one. Heres a few more, to remember 2 or more dreams every night , to remember my dreams vividly , to stabilize my next LD (that one I just got from you ) The aids I'm using are choline, vitamin b6 and b12, ginkgo biloba, and i just got some calea z in the mail yesterday(yuck!) I have a labradorite gem coming in the mail as well and the last thing i got today was some huperzine A I'm trying that out tonight I can't wait. The techniques I'm using to induce my LDs are dild, mild, and wbtb I wbtb every chance i get and have done about 10 of these over the last 3 weeks. I used wbtb to have the lucid dream I was talking about in my first post the one that lasted 30 seconds or so. I have not really noticed any dream signs in an actual dream yet but I'm working on that. yes i do some of the things you mentioned about RCs I ask myself how I got here and really pay attention to my hands the lines in them and look at the finger nails then rub them together look at my watch twice and sometimes I throw in the old nose plug thing and try to breathe. Thx so much for replying to my post this was fun, I hope to induce a LD about me typing on my keyboard now : ) Happy dreaming Caenis I'm going to go read your workbook now .