Thread: Hello everyone! I am new

Hello guys,

I am a 15 year old male, 5'7" 125 pounds.
I'm not sure if any of this has something to do with lucid dreaming, but I thought I'd include it.

I just recently discovered lucid dreaming (yesterday) and I am already extremely eager to learn more. As soon as I learned about it, I created a dream journal and started performing RCs.

The past couple months I have been attaining lucidity in dreams but soon after I go into sleep paralysis. But I had no idea what lucidity and sleep paralysis were so I was baffled. Sleep paralysis is extremely frightening and I want to be able to control it. I feel like I have 1 dream a week (that's all I remember) and I'm afraid I will not be able to have dream recall, therefore not be able to have lucid dreams consistently. I have read that MILD often leads to sleep paralysis so I will be performing DILD. So I am now performing RCs daily and I am very excited to see them in my dreams. But I'm worried about my dream recall skills not sharpening. Even when I do have a dream/remember one, it is not vivid whatsoever. I am in desperate need to obtain this skill because I can't get through the day because I fear sleep, sleep paralysis is changing my life, but I want to turn it into a positive change, lucid dreaming! Hopefully you guys will help me through this process. I am very excited about this forum and general idea and I look forward to talking with you all, thank you!

EDIT: I have a question about alarm clocks. You're supposed to keep your eyes closed, not move, and focus on the dream you just woke up from to recall it and write it in your journal. But, I need to wake up at certain times (school, activities, etc.) so I use an alarm clock and I wake up, move over to it and turn it off. But if I didn't move, the noise would distract me. What do I do about this???