I'm a lurker in most communities. I'm also incredibly lazy. I've given up on my current main goal - learning how to lucid dream (that links? cool) - a couple of times now due to sheer lack of motivation. So I'm throwing away that mask of anonymity now, since getting involved in a community with similar interests will surely stir some inspiration in my slacker self.

Sometimes I'll wake up with alarming memory of my night's dreams - to the point where it takes half an hour to type it up. Most of the time, I can remember only small fragments upon waking and maybe more if I concentrate hard enough. I'm not complaining - before I started working on LDing, I was one of those people who are certain that they don't dream at all. But I've been wondering if you guys have any tips for dream recall other than keeping a journal? I've tried suggestion before going to sleep, but it seems like a more temporary solution.

Also - a while back, I had an odd dream. Something in the scenery puzzled me, and my dream self realized it was dreaming. However, it didn't feel quite lucid - although my dream self knew this was a dream, I myself had absolutely no control over it. It wasn't any more vivid than my 'normal' dreams, either. My dream self tried to tell other dream characters that they were dreaming (lo and behold, they didn't listen). I think the best way to describe it is that I dreamt about realizing that I was dreaming. Do I get any points for this? Is this any indication of me coming close to having a legitimate LD?

But anyway, thanks for putting up with me so far. I hope I'll be able to contribute to the community and maybe make some friends.