Well, where to begin? I suppose I shall start by saying that whilst being aware of what lucid dreams were for a good many years, I have only recently decided to really buckle down and attempt to become a full fledged lucid dreamer for several reasons, the first and most important being a series of recurring nightmares on a topic I'd rather not discuss but suffice to say they are disturbing and I have great desire and motivation to change or prevent the outcome next time I have one. Also, I am doing this just for the fun of it!

For starters, just two questions. The first is that I have read in several places electrical lighting (television and computer screens) is bad in terms of getting easily to sleep and it may prevent dream memories from staying intact. This is a concern for me, because I have found that I have great difficulty becoming tired if I do not either watch something, write/read a story, or do some digital art before bed. These practices relax me, and to an extent can influence my dream content. So I am wondering if it's OK to keep doing these things and still hope to become lucid/remember dreams?

Which leads me to my second question. Over the past fortnight I have had two dreams that involve aspects of lucid dreaming, however I am slightly concerned I am merely dreaming about being lucid and not actually being lucid. These dreams included observing my hands to find more fingers/strange highlights around my hand, time travel (via looking and a watch and the use of the famous TARDIS from Dr Who on seperate occasions) and pushing my finger through my palm, which I achieved last night/this morning. However, besides subject matter, I don't believe I had any influence over what was happening, and I never really thought about the fact I was dreaming until right at the end of both dreams. I do note that for both these dreams upon waking I could remember what happened in each with much more detail than I am accustomed to.

I hope this wasn't tl;dr! Hahaha!