Hello, I'm Joe

Hey everyone, my name is Joe and I'm new here. I've been interested in dreaming my entire life. A couple of years ago I started my own little dream journal where I would write a brief summary of each dream I had (I've had around 3 dreams per night for about two years now), and ever since then I've gotten better at remembering them without writing them down.

When I used to dream, I would only remember them for the first few minutes after waking up. Sometimes I would remember them as I go to sleep the next night, or sometimes I'd smell or see something which would trigger a short remembrance which would only last a few seconds, then it'd be gone again.

I think the things that got me most interested in the dream world are my past experiences with Sleep Paralysis. I've experienced Sleep Paralysis three times in my entire life, and as interesting as it is, the fear alone scares the shit out of me to the point where I don't know if I want to experience it ever again. Ever since those times I've read a lot about dreams and have gotten more and more interested.

What brings me to these forums however, is lucid dreaming. Just last night I had my first real experiences with lucid dreaming. I was able to trigger it three dreams in a row. I had a couple other dreams but I suppose that I was in too deep of a sleep to remember to remind myself to try and take over the dream. I don't know much about the methods of lucid dreaming, but from what I experienced last night, it does pose some difficulty.

During the entire time, I felt as if I was awake but I knew I was dreaming at the same time, so it seemed difficult for me to use my mind too much due to the fact that I felt like I would wake myself up if I thought too hard. I'm going to read up on these forums and hopefully talk with some of you to become better at lucid dreaming.

Thanks!

Hello Joe, Wellcome.

If you linked three dreams as you said, You've used the DEILD technique.
About the ''I felt as if I was awake but I knew I was dreaming at the same time, so it seemed difficult for me to use my mind too much due to the fact that I felt like I would wake myself up if I thought too hard.'' it's normal, you need to work on dream stabilization and control, so you get deeper in the dream state and don't feel your real body.

Ah, that makes sense! In the first two I had woken myself up but then was able to go back to sleep really quickly, which was interesting to me because each time I was in the same area of the dream.

What does is DEILD an abbreviation for exactly?

Dream Exit Initiated Lucid Dream.

http://www.dreamviews.com/f25/deild-tutorial-62769/

Also, :welcome: to DV, Joe! :D

Make yourself at home.

Ah, thanks. It's interesting that I was able to achieve this without even knowing it existed.

As XeL said, Dream Exit Initiated Lucid Dream.
You can use this if you wake up abruptly from a dream and continue the same dream (usually).