Hi,

I recently discovered lucid dreaming, and I immediately became very interested in it. Over the past two days - since I found out - I have educated myself on lucid dreaming methods, mechanics, and lurked around on this forum. In addition to this, I've read about the mechanics of sleeping in humans.

Despite all this, I still have some questions unanswered:

1. Some people on this website claim to have dreams (or even lucid dreams) longer than 60 minutes. How is this possible, considering that a (regular) REM cycle usually lasts this long at most?

2. Dreams are created during the REM stage of your sleep. A complete cycle consisits of REM and NREM sleep. Correct me if I am wrong, but dreams are not created in NREM. Does this mean that whatever dream you may be having at the end of your REM stage will dissapear when comes time for NREM?

2-2. Assuming the answer to the last question is yes, then if I want to have numerous lucid dreams per night, does this mean I will have to wake up more times using the WILD method? If not, what method is used (DILD)?

3. For beginners who are interested in trying lucid dreaming, what method would be good to start out with? My recall ability is horrible; I haven't remembered a dream since I stopped having nightmares.

If I have said something incorrect in my questions, please correct me.
Thanks for reading.