Hi fukawi1! Welcome to DreamViews! It's good to have you here.

It's true that marijuana can put a dampener on your dream recall. The good news is that you're likely looking at some great REM rebound when/if you decide to take a break from cannabis! In fact, a relatively new (but already very successful) member named PennyRoyal is running an experiment to see the effect that quitting marijuana has on his dreaming. You may want to check it out! Here's a link: http://www.dreamviews.com/research/1...my-dreams.html

As for the fundamentals, the route I took when I first joined DreamViews was to join the "Intro Class" offered in the DreamViews Academy. It's a low-key instructional course on building dream recall and the fundamentals of lucid dreaming. The support, advice, and community I received there was invaluable to finding my way in the art of dreaming. (And you'll see me hanging around there to this day!) If you'd like to learn from many of the same people that I learned from, this is the place to start.

If you need any kind of assistance or to have a question answered, don't hesitate to PM me or any of the other Dream Guides. We'll be happy to help you out.