Thread: I'm new here

Hey, I just thought I'd introduce myself here. You can call me Aurum for short.

I have had a few (3 to 5) lucid dreams in the past, before I read much, if anything at all, about lucid dreams. However, all of them were short, one of them I lost lucidity rather quickly and continued my dream, but most of them I wake up immediately after. I think I probably have had more than that that I don't remember, since they always seem to be right before I wake up.

Lately I have been interested in lucid dreaming. I watched Inception, which by the way was a very good movie. I looked up the plot on Wikipedia, and it mentioned lucid dreaming. I had read a tiny bit about lucid dreaming before, but it wasn't a very good resource. I googled lucid dreaming and found this site.

I tried to WILD last night, and I counted 300 breaths, but I kept having phlegm in my throat which disturbed my attempt. I kept becoming aware, even though I noticed I was drifting away into visual thoughts, and I kept imagining audible voices from random people. I wanted to make these thoughts transform into a dream, but the thoughts seemed about the same as any memory I have - all in my head, not actually real and explorable. (Now I read that WILD isn't a good idea for newbies to lucid dreaming, so I'm not going to do that)

I haven't remembered many dreams in the past few years. I'm hoping to start remembering more and writing in a dream journal, but I'm having a really hard time remembering anything at all from my dreams after I wake up =/