Hey all, I'm Nightflare, or Karl, if you'd prefer. I'm new to this lucid dreaming business- I resolved to get into it yesterday.

I've been trying to WILD a few times- once last night before going to bed, once this morning at about 10am (I wake up at about 7ish usually), and twice at about 4:50 pm.

The technique I used was just to lie perfectly still, with my eyes closed, taking deep, regular breaths, counting down from 99 to 0. I didn't have a great deal of luck entering SP with that; My best attempt was the 4:30 pm one, where I changed my technique slightly and constantly repeated "Mind awake, body asleep"- I started feeling a bit dizzy and my eyelids starting twitching like crazy, but unfortunately my father got back with dinner and interrupted me. I tried again directly after dinner, but with no luck. I'm going to try again at about 4am tomorrow morning, since I'm sure that's the right time for an REM cycle (or am I just making this up?). The trouble I've been having is stopping myself from swallowing- I get too much saliva build up, by the time I reach about 60-ish I just have to swallow, which breaks the entire process

Anyway, other than the dreaming, what am I into? Well, I'm a major nerd, for one thing- Currently on a Battlestar Galactica binge, but I also love Firefly and a few other sci-fi. I'm also an avid reader- I love fantasy series like' A Song of Ice and Fire' and Stephen Erikson's 'Malazan: Book of the Fallen' series. I've got a broad music taste, but I listen to a lot of symphonic metal like Within Temptation and Nightwish.

Anyway, thus ends my poor excuse for an introduction. See you around