Hello there! I'm SnowyDreams, call me Snowy, and I joined today. I've been trying to LD properly for a couple of months -- ever since I saw Inception, actually -- but I've loved dreaming ever since I was little, mostly because I'm a natural at dream recall and often have extremely vivid, intricately detailed dreams.

So, the thing is, I'm usually faintly aware of the fact that I'm dreaming when I am. The need to RC is quite low since I recognize straight away that my surroundings aren't real - I have a tendency to create buildings and landscapes that I know that I haven't seen, or are quite impossible to achieve, in real life. There've been times when I've been completely lucid, accepted the fact that I'm dreaming, and just kept on going.

My problem is that I can't control my dreams. Or, more than often, I forget that I'm supposed to control them. I've tried several different induction techniques, foods that increase lucidity, etc, but so far, no progress. I've tried to WILD every single night now for about a month, and each time I either end up visualizing falling down a cliff or somehow end up in the middle of a dream. I've tried to do the thing with RC-ing IRL and then remembering to do it in my dream so that I can gain lucidity, but the only thing that happens is that I realize, "Ah, I'm dreaming", and then let my subconscious do the rest. In the morning I get frustrated when I remember that I was supposed to control the dream, not just realize that I was in one.

So, any tips on how to remember to control my dream? Should I just keep on going or is there a specific technique I should try? =)