Hello everyone!

Hi guys, my name is Cesar and i always thought lucid dreams were a interesting thing and I love to read about things that science can't fully explain...

so i've been reading about it for about 2 months now and i managed to register at DV :)

Before reading about LD's i usually had, from time to time, weeks that I was able to recall 1-2 dreams per night but this lasted for a week only and then I had a long time without remembering any dreams... After I started to read about LD's, I'm trying more to recall my dreams, and my mind is thinking about it a lot so my dream recall rate is a lot better atm and i started a dream journal. I had some weird experiences with something close to the description I read about sleep paralysis and I had one REALLY short LD but I got too excited and woke up... this LD was about 3 weeks ago and now i'm not sleeping 8h/day and I'm finding harder to recall my dreams... still managing to remember some details tough... Anyways, just wanted to introduce myself and a lil bit of my experience, I'm really interested in learning more about LDing and I'm looking forward to the Adoption Program here at DV, WILDing and a lot of texts about LD... That's it, hope I can enjoy around here :D

:welcome: It sounds like you are on the right track. What do you think triggered your last lucid dream?

I remember that the light was a lil blurry and one of the dream characters was someone that appears often in my dreams but rarely in real life... I guess that made me realize it was a dream... but still... i had another dreams that this person appeared but it didn't triggered my lucidity >_< that sucks and i woke up kinda disappointed... that weird sleep paralysis experience that I commented in the first post was a short LD too but I was in my bed and I couldn't move my arms in the dream and from where I was seeing that didn't look like my arm... it looked like it was not attached to me but i felt like I was moving something when I tried to move it but it stood still... so I thought if I was dreaming and tried to move myself really hard and that's when I felt myself getting outta my body and falling from the side of the bed... that made me panic and I woke up...

by the way... It's 5:33 AM right now, I went to sleep around 23h, tried to set the alarm for around 3h-4 and a half hours after i sleep to try to WILD from the things i've read so far... I guess things didnt go as I was expecting... I felt my arms and legs kinda heavier than usual but I couldnt concentrate that much... what should I do next? Count numbers? Imagine scenes and kinda day-dream? And I can't help swallowing sometimes...

You could lie on your side if drooling troubles you. WILD can be kinda tricky to master, it takes alot of pratice to figure out the best way for you to do it. Try counting breaths until you're sure you in SP. Ignore the SP sensations and just start visualizing something. Try to use any of your senses in that visualization and you're on your way into the dream. You should also give the other techniques DILD and MILD a chance, they're just as effective if not even more for someone as new as you :)

If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Oh, thanks for the reply XD... few more questions then: How am I suppose to be sure that I'm in SP? SP is more than feeling your arms/legs heavy right? And DILD is used by practicing recall, and getting used to do reality checks and pay attention to dream signs, but it's like having an X chance to happen every night? Yeah I guess I need to practice a lot of WILDing to understand the best way for me to do it.

SP is when your body is paralyzed. It's often accompanied by hallucinations of any kind. With any technique, getting lucid is about awareness of your reality. That's what DILD focuses greatly on, and is actually a technique you can combine with any other. It'll increase your chances to become lucid randomly if your WILD should fail.

so I really can't move my body even if I want to? that was my doubt 'cause so far I just felt heavy body but I could move it if I tried, discovered that when I gave up 'cause I couldn't focus in one of my tries, thanks to my neighboors :D