At what point are you not a Newbie?

**ZedCa** · 11-24-2010 04:16 AM

I just hit my 10th full LD last night, I've been counting really short LDs as fractions, but vowed I'd stop doing that once I hit 10.

Anyway, I've mostly had DILD DEILD (Mostly false ones.) and WID (Note the lack of L. Yeah, it was weird.). At my peak last month LDs were almost common, I've been in a slump this month, I think mainly attributed to my horrific sleep schedule and slacking on my dream journal.

So I ask, at what point would you stop considering yourself a newbie at LD'ing?

**blade7115** · 11-24-2010 04:19 AM

uhh hey, i think u arnt newbiew if u got 10, jus wonderin though do u find MILD easier then WILD? ive heard about WILD, seems scary entering SP :S

**sisyphus** · 11-24-2010 05:52 AM

I think you can define your own progress. I think everyone goes through phases of learning, frustration, dryspells, plateaus, and breakthroughs. So counts or lengths or frequencies can be misleading statistics. Based on what you say, you seem to have experience and awareness about what influences your LDs and you have a set of plans and practices to make progress, even if other things in life sometimes interfere. So to me, that demonstrates a level above "newbie". But what really matters is where you see yourself and if you feel ready to take on a new set of challenges.

**Foul** · 11-24-2010 07:42 AM

If you mean in terms of where you should be asking your questions on the forums, then I'd say if they're not relatively basic questions they should go somewhere other than the newbie forum.