First off, Yo to everyone out there, yes i am new to the forum and i'm just a fledgeling in lucid dreaming. I've had only one which i got by DILDing, which i'll discuss in slight more detail later.

Anyway on to the reason i'm typing all this:

At the moment i'm doing reality checks every time i think about doing so, in which i ask myself the following:

- What am i doing here?
- Why am i here?
- How many fingers do i have?
- Am i wearing my ring?

Yes the last one sounds weird but that is the question that gave me my first DILD, and i think its good if everyone has their own specific reality check questions besides the obvious ones. I'm having trouble attaining another DILD though, and am not sure how my first happened. I was standing in the hallway in my house when suddenly i felt like i was being pulled out of my dream, that's when i went: "Oh snap i gotta do a reality check this could damn well be a dream!". So i did a reality check and huzzah i realized i was dreaming. Fudged it up though by being too excited

So i'm doing reality checks, and i'm focusing hard on getting my dream recall going. In the holidays i used to be able to remember at least 1 or 2 each night but since my sleepcycle changed dramatically (school) i'm having a hard time recalling 1 per night.

I'm also trying Yoshi's WILD Technique each night just because i can just as well try WILDing at night when i'm not doing anything else, but i'm having trouble getting to the first stage of WILDing which is Sleep Paralysis. I keep a mantra in my head, saying i want to wake up in my dream, and i'm not sure if it's enough to keep my mind awake though.

So my question to you guys, after a damn long thread, is am i doing anything wrong?
Also feel free to post your own experiences in here, its a newbie zone thread after all