Hello Everyone, I'm New Here and Also Somewhat New To Lucid Dreaming!

[tboi3000]

Let me first start off by saying hello, I am tboi3000. If you wish, you can call me Tyler. If you pay attention to title's, you might notice me being new here. I thought this site was REALLY helpful with induction methods (which is how I found this site) and thought I could benefit greatly in my journey through Lucid Dreams and Spirituality. Like I also stated in the title, I am fairly new to both of these topics. I have been training, if you would call it that, to remember my dreams as I hadn't been bothering to for the passed years of my life and that getting my dream recall to 2+ a night is already an amazing, rewarding experience for my nearly 2 months of practice/study. My search for information on Spirituality has been going on for a much shorter amount of time (1.5 months). There's my introduction! So yeah, below I have a couple of questions regarding Lucid Dream, dreaming in general, and sleep in general and answers are greatly appreciated! just for added info, I've been practicing MILD and DILD so I'm not too familiar with WILD or WBTB and other induction methods (I know the terms and what they involve, I'm just not experienced with them)... 1. I have had 1 Lucid Dream throughout my "enhancing dream recall/lucid dream" 'training' period and some other waking-myself-ups over that same lapse of time. Is that a decent amount for a beginner oneironaut? I have been doing the odd reality checks and such but haven't been having frequent LDs... 2. I am doing somewhat frequent Reality Checks (2-5 every 2 hours) but am not 'remembering' to do them when I am dreaming. Should I do them more often or should I be looking for other, maybe odd times to do a Reality Check? 3. When reading my dream journal, I have noticed a large amount of dreams are not obscure and are just bland, boring, eventless. Does that mean I need to be getting more sleep or are obscure dreams just randomly occurring dreams?? 4. What are some more tips/tricks/etc to do before bed to ensure a LD will occur this night? Thanks a lot for the helps guys!

[Puffin]

Hi Tyler, welcome to Dreamviews! One lucid dream in two months is a good start; some people just have more than others when they're beginning to LD. When you're reality checking, it helps to really consider the fact that you could be dreaming. When people dream, they do things without considering where they are, and why they're doing what they're doing, among other things. You have to get into the habit of questioning this in real life, so it carries on over into your dreams. Along with the reality checks, practice spiking your awareness throughout the day; observe things more closely; try to read a phrase or paragraph, and check the clock to see if the numbers are odd. Stuff like that. Reality checks are usually used as a confirmation that you're dreaming after you become lucid, and don't actually induce lucidity themselves. But you should still do reality checks, just as a confirmation, and also so you don't forget what they are. I remember becoming lucid once and forgot what reality checks there were (at least I kept my lucidity). ^^' As for the dream journal entries, there's periods where I too get bland and boring dreams (just the way it works, I guess). Or, maybe you're the type of person who just has normal, non-obscure dreams. There's still the same chance of getting lucid from those ones, as the obscure ones. Each time you're getting into bed and waking up, do a reality check and skeptically look around the room. If you have to pretend to be skeptical, do it, and it should eventually become more natural. You could be dreaming and not know it; you could be in a false awakening. After all, it really stinks to miss false awakenings; they're pretty much like free lucids. Good luck having more lucids! :3

[tboi3000]

Thanks for the help & answering my questions! I'll try some of the skepticles/reality checks since I'm about to go to bed and do the RCs when waking and such. lol, I've had quite a few false awakenings and when I actually wake up I'm somewhat confused.

[Puffin]

I know what you mean, I've been through more missed false awakenings than I care to remember.

[SuddenGun007]

Hi I am new here to, and thought instead of posting a new topic to just post here, I have been researching lucid dreaming for a week or two, and started my journal. The first night of dreaming I woke up and recorded 3 dreams, or sequences of dream scenes. After waking up in the late morning I forgot what I had dreamed. Later that day I remembered a ton of dreams, and had a total of 7 from one night, the following night i had like to connecting dreams. And today I had my first lucid dream! It was quick as I used the count method to fall asleep, and ended up in a dream where I instantly noticed I was dreaming, I ended up being "pulled out of the dream". I tried the spinning thing but it only worked for a second. Then I woke up and told everyone about it, and an hour later fell back asleep, entered a dream, and went through 3 dream scenes and had a false awakening where I instantly knew I did cause I was in my childhood room, so I got out of the bed and went out the door, and went outside and went flying. Does anyone have that weird feeling of like a different gravity or grogginess of being in a dream, like it feels way different than reality? And having 2 lucid dreams within a span of four hours a good sign, or is that common, my mom always told me as a child i was a sleep walker does this have anything to do with my "natural" ability to LD? Thanks and sorry for the long post.

[tboi3000]

welcome to dreamviews, you seem to be a lot quicker at LDing that I was/am! My first LD was me in my bathroom changing a light bulb. I started rapidly turning the light switch from off to on to see if the bulb worked. When I had finished, the other bulb had burned out. I thought this was strange and looked at the light switches, they were a lot different than what they are in the waking world so I decided to RC. lol, I realized I was dreaming and got too excited and the dream collapsed. Since then I've had a series of false awakenings but no LDs since I started, which was about 2 months ago. Dreams could often feel different from the waking world because you create your world without any sensory input (eyes, ears, etc) so you can change anything you want in a dream, gravity, creating objects, etc. two LDs is great for your beginning "training" at LDing. Just make sure you keep a dream journal and record your dreams regularly with as much detail as possible. This is essential when picking out your dream signs. Not sure about the sleep walking thing though.

[lucasnike]

Sup tyler! I'm Lucas and I'm pretty new here too. Seems like you're doing pretty well so far. I'm also a noob in the concept of lucid dreaming so yeah good to meet ya

[SuddenGun007]

I actually went back to bed after I posted that and ended up in a dream, I had a false awakening several times in a row and each time i got out of the bed i would look at my hand and say to myself i have six fingers, and bam six fingers. But I think I lost lucidity, but the whole dream was about me doing what i wanted cause it was my dream lol. Saw Angelina jolie, ordered food at a closed fast food place, and ended up in a sewer type thing where i could swim underwater and breathe at the same time. I just wonder if i was lucid, or that i dreamed that i was lucid. Whats the most bizare dream experience you have had?

[tboi3000]

yeah, false awakenings are annoying! About your posted dream; there are different 'levels' of lucidity (if you can call it that). Sometimes you have full control when you know dream characters are dream characters and you know you are in a dream and nothing can hurt you, then there are times when you know you are dreaming but your DCs don't know they're DCs and then there are some dreams where you know you're dreaming, you know the people that populate the dream are DCs but they don't know they're DCs and so on. If you go to youtube, I would search 'reesejones87'. He's a very experienced oneironaut and has videos on 'The Five Stages of Lucid Dreams'. I found his videos very insightful and maybe you would too! hmm, my most bizarre dream experience? I was in the world of Spongebob Squarepants with Spongebob, Mr. Krabs, and a few of the children fish. We were apparently lost in an underwater, cartoon jungle looking for a path back home. Spongebob came running into the scene from behind some tall plants yelling: "Mr. Krabs! Mr. Krabs! Look what I found!" he was holding strange purple berries and was giving them to the children. Mr. Krabs got worried since Spongebob was feeding POISONOUS berries to children! Mr. Krabs took them away and started talking in some strange language that I cannot understand and making weird faces. . .The dream goes on for a little longer but I can't remember after that. Hey Lucas, nice to meet you! Maybe we can discuss our progression through lucid dreaming or various techniques we've found helpful and stuff like that in the future!

[lucasnike]

Hey Lucas, nice to meet you! Maybe we can discuss our progression through lucid dreaming or various techniques we've found helpful and stuff like that in the future! Yeah sure! Do you use MSN messenger a lot? we could add eachother there too =P

[tboi3000]

yeah, I go on periodically. lol, I'm usually more on facebook though. but yeah, I think my email's on my profile, and if not, just PM me!

[SuddenGun007]

that spongebob dream sounds insane, I would wonder whether i was on something or not loll, sorry Lucas i didn't acknowledge you, so HI! and I check out those recommended videos, very informative thanks!