Hi, my name is Angus and I am a 19 year old IT student from Australia. I've been trying to LD on and off for about a year now, but due to lack of both commitment and motivation have only been able to achieve lucidity once, through what I think was a fluke DILD:

"I woke up lying on the floor of a building. It was completely empty and silent, and my head was to the side. I saw orange tiles stretching into the distance, but I sensed that the dream was very flimsy and that if I moved at all I would lose the scene and probably the dream. Nevertheless, I got bored after a minute or so and tried looking up at the ceiling instead. I caught a glimpse of a large glass dome before I woke up.

Something was amiss, however; at the foot of my bed, a huge dog was staring at me and growling. I knew the false awakening for what it was, and banished the dog, but that action cost me the last of my stability and I woke up again, this time for real."

By making an account here I'm hoping to build up enough of a commitment to the task to successfully begin to dream. I have already begun keeping a dream journal of sorts, and have made a few MILD and WILD attempts, but have mostly failed so far (Though I have been on the edge several times during WILD attempts, though my excitement and fear caused me to lose it every time so far.) I'm also hoping to build up a regular reality checking habit but I haven't made much of a move towards that yet.