Hey guys,

I've read alot of lucid dreams, done lots of research and have practiced for a while. My biggest problem is that: 1) I don't dream very often- maybe once a week I'll remember a dream (Even after telling myself i'll dream and keeping a dream journal when I have one).
2) The reason I can't achieve lucidity is because ALL my dreams occur to me in retrospective memory. In other words, when I wake up, I remember my dream. The dream can be murky or vivid with random details but I'm never actually ever in a dream or experiencing it. It feels as if when I wake up, I construct a story based on my dream.

It seems as if you guys who dream, are third person watching whatevers going on while you dream. Then when you see a dream sign, you pick up on it, and enter a lucid state. For me.. I wake up, then recall a few or many facts about my dream, but I NEVER see my dream as its occuring.

Ive achieved lucidity once, after 4-5 months of practice.

I started doing this after I had my first experience with sleep paralysis conjoined with a hallucination. Scary as shit, don't really want to get into it, but I was awake in my room with someone else beside me. This wasn't a dream, I was physically awake. I had to scream out loud before I stopped seeing things. Anyways, thats a quick intro to my dream life, I'll divulge more about that dream if anyone can help me dream more..