As i've written about in my intro topic, my main reason for failure is lack of dedication and determination. The more I read about LD, the more I daydream about it. The more excited I get, and the more I want it.
And then the same thing happens to me that has been happening to me my entire life... it takes genuine effort and I quit...

Well, no more. I need kicks in the butt. And maybe keeping an online public workbook here will be that little push I so badly need.

Anyway, here goes!

I've started my dream journal, got a nice notebook with a cover that I really like. It opens easy, and stays open easy.

Reality Checks:
- Pushing my right index finger through my left hand palm
- Pinching my nose and try to blow air through it
- Looking at my hand up close and studying them if they look weird
- Checking my reality. Am I dreaming? I ask myself this every time i get in and out of an elevator. (I use an elevator a lot at my work, and for some reason, elevators show up a lot in my dreams)

Dream Signs:
- Elevators
- (need more recorded dreams to update)

Short-Term Goals:
- Get to explore the matrix inside my head
- Do crazy stuff
- Reduce stress

Long-Term Goals:
- Improve my WL by having healthier sleep routines
- Become a better person, more relaxed. More focus on the now, less on the past
- Find out where my inner rage / angryness / unhappiness comes from
- Stop drinking alcohol 100%

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
- No Lucid dreams

- Dream recall is a bit muddy. Probably because of the alcohol :-) But i've always been a daydreamer. A really vivid and good daydreamer. In fact, I have several report cards from school that literally say 'Needs to be present in the real world, not in dreamland'.

I usually 'plan' my dreams. I kinda write them out like a scenario, a play if you want. I do that pretty much every night when I go to sleep, and often when daydreaming to. I choose a theme (Star trek for instance) and it's like i pick it out of a flip box spinning wheel. Then the setting, the characters etc. And I fill it in. And start the 'play/movie'. And then I interact with it. And if something is not right, I stop the play/movie, rewind (literally) and resume.
Often this last a good 20 to 30 minutes or so. Me 'daydreaming' when I go to bed.

Current Technique:
- ADA
- DILD

- Hoping my DJ will help me get a DILD (or DEILD)

- I have a 1y old son that wakes up often at 5-6am. Thinking about using that waking time to do WBTB.