good news! Two days ago I FINALLY had a lucid dream - and not only a regular lucid dream but a veryyyyyy lucid one! It all started in a dream where I was moving to a new apartment. So I was in the basement of the old house cleaning up some things and bringing them upstairs. Everything looke EXACTLY like it did in our old house - not even a tiny difference. When I was about to climb upstairs it just hit me and I said "Wait. Didn't I want to do MILD?" and then it took me just a second and I instantly said "No need for MILD. Why am I even here? That's a dream.". The surprising (or rather somewhat expected) part: Just like Sageous said - a strengthened sense of your Self (by doing RRCs) and really acknowledging the dream for what it is makes dream control second nature... and that's what happened! I knew instantly that all this around me is my creation. There was absolutely no need to stabilise whatsoever and without doing any RC I went upstairs, got outside and sat down on the floor just marvelling at the greaaaaaat detail. I looked at my hands and it was astonishing how real they looked. I mean this was my 20th LD but never did it feel quite like that! As I was about to summon a dream door and accomplish my goal............ my alarm started ringing. 8am. time to get up. I did a RC and sadly I was awake. Quite annoying and sad considering this great opportunity that I missed- but finally I was able to break my dryspell and see that what I'm doing right now acutally works!

I will keep you informed about further adventures (hopefully without annoying endings like that one )

Sweet dreams,
Benni