Bonjours à tous!

[Shoopalapa]

Hello everyone! I'm a teenager who hails from France and started attending high school in the US 3 years ago. I've known about LD'ing a few years ago and never thought I could achieve (and that it was rather kooky too but we're not going to mention that). I tried my hand at it last year and got discouraged easily from some bad advice to lay in bed unmoving for hours. Needless to say nothing happened save for a rough day after. I got hooked in again and have been reading obsessively, and now feel confident to try again after learning the reasons behind LD'ing rather than thinking of it as mumbo jumbo. Just recently I've started keeping a dream journal and have since remembered a dream in the first time in many years! I hope to achieve my desired goals and expand my horizons further. I also look forward for the many hours I will spend with you all! Thank you for reading and bid you a good night! -Shoopalapa

[gab]

Bienvenue à Dreamviews! Yup, if you wanna do kookie stuff, you came to the right place DJ is great, it will help you in more than one way. Here is a Beginners guide to get you started. Once you pick an induction technique (DILD is recommended for starters), check out the DV Academy for classes, or just post your questions and experiences. Happy dreams

[Shoopalapa]

Thank you! I will definitely read those up!

[MasterMind]

Welcome Shoopalapa! That advice was partly correct, there is a tehnique called WILD which is an entry to the dream witout losing awareness between the awake and asleep treshold. And the person who gave you that advice is right when he say that laying still is a necessary condition to do in order to WILD, however it's not a sufficent condition. I mean why do you think people who are talking about lucid dreaming first was tibetan monks and fully paralysed people like Stephen Hawking or Christopher Reeve propbably doesn't even know what it is? Because it is all in the mind not the body! When you relax the mind fully you will not focus on the body and therefore not move, not the other way around! That's also why the idea of sleep paralysis is wrong like you will see mentioned around here in some posts, because it is all focused on the body! In fact with the right tuning of mind, you can transition into the non-physical reality in minutes! Maybe even seconds. But that's a goal for later. I wish you sweet dreams and that you enjoy your stay! Always ask if you need any help.

[Sivason]

Welcome to Dream Views! This is the place to be for anyone wanting to learn how to lucid dream. There is no quick answer to your question, but the Dream guide team is here to help you navigate the forum and answer questions. We all have 3 green stars above our avatar. Click on our user name and you can then select private message if you have a question, or you can start new threads. Don't worry about starting threads that have been started before, just try it out, if it ends up in the wrong place one of us can move it for you. One thing you can do in a post is place a link to another thread. I have done this below. You can click on the colored words to see the new thread. Start with this extra basic one, it will help you read the acronyms in other posts, Help With Acronyms For Complete Beginners After that one the very first thing you should do is check out basic tutorials. This one covers most of the terms you will see members using in much more depth, so start here, http://www.dreamviews.com/f20/beginn...eaming-124786/ Also be sure to check out the DVA Dream Views Acadamy, click on this link to get there, DV Academy. Matte , our Dream Guide team leader runs a general lucid dreaming class, and you can join in contests where you gain points for dreams you have. General Lucid Dreaming (Matte87) Gab , another Dream Guide runs a class that is very valuable to beginners on MILD/DILD, which is by far the best method to start with. DILD (Hukif and gab) Finally as far as the DVA stuff goes, there is a class on introduction to lucid dreaming. This is a great place if you are just starting out and need a little personal help. Intro Class (OpheliaBlue, RareCola, CanisLucidus, Chimpertainment, Xanous) Now, on the lighter side, you may be excited to learn to fly! Here is a thread where people explain how they went about learning to fly, http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/can-u-...u-learn-40468/ Then just for a laugh here is a thread where people list all the things they want to do in an LD. It is mostly light hearted and supposed to be funny, http://www.dreamviews.com/f11/1000-t...-dream-104556/ Have fun and good luck with your dreaming!

[Mancon]

Welcome to Dreamviews! Glad you have been reading about it and understand your previous mistakes. Don't give up after just a few tries, stick with it! If you have any questions, please ask. Hope to see you around the forums! Good luck!