Hello,
my name is Christopher and I am 18 years old.
I am generally interested in the mind of human, reading much of C. G. Jung about the unconscious right now, and researching about consciousness-expanding experiences.

About half a year ago I found out about this whole lucid dreaming thing, I remember a few lucid dreams from when I was a kid. One month ago I started a dream journal, but somehow I am getting lazy doing it.

Do you know the best method for a beginner to gain the ability to dream lucid?
I'm interested in all methods wich won't cut my sleeptime and can be done without disturbing others around, my problem is that right now i am doing military service and don't have a romm for myself to sleep. Only on weekends I have time at home, so the WILD method for naps is appealing too.

Until now, I couldn't really produce any results. I had a dream about me thinking I am lucid, but I wasn't lucid at all, And then there was a dream where I thought I was in sleep paralysis, but maybe I really was. I tried hard with autosuggestion, but with it I could only cause effect with things that hadn't to do with the dream iself, like "remember all your dreams" or "wake up after every dream". But things like "Dream about the beach" never work.

Could you tell me about your first experiences with lucid dreaming and how long it took you to actively induce one? At the end of this year I am done with military service, and then I will have much freetime to practice. I hope that I could get a faint gist of the trick until then.

Thanks in advance, Christopher