Hey everyone,

I just joined and wanted to share my experiences with lucid dreaming so far.

I've had a few lucid dreams in my life. Almost all of them involved flying. In these dreams I was either already able to fly or figured I'd give it a go and it worked. Usually (but not always) I became aware I was dreaming during flight, and sometimes I was able to sort of take control of my movements. I never figured that since I knew I was dreaming and could control my movement I could try and control the entire dream. This started happening a few years ago and stopped after a year or two.

Then a few months ago out of nowhere I had a lucid dream where I decided to take full control and it worked. I was in some sort of surreal city that I could explore at will. I flew, it felt exactly as my other dream but with a much bigger sense of freedom. I had no problems staying in this dream and it felt like it took a good twenty minutes before I woke up. It was an amazing experience.

A few weeks later I was talking about this experience with a friend, and he mentioned that some people try and train themselves to become better at awareness and dream control. I thought that was funny but didn't give it a lot of thought.

Then this week I came across the term lucid dreaming and realized that if I enjoyed that single experience that much, I might as well try and train to have more of those experiences. If I'm able to have this experience without trying or training, I should be able to pull it off more often, right?

So I'm going to give this a go, starting out with All Day Awareness (paying more attention to all of my senses was something I enjoyed doing anyway) and dream journaling.

I've always enjoyed dreaming a lot and have always been good at recalling them. I used to have the weirdest dreams but never bothered to write them down. Lately it's been a bit bland and boring for me dreamwise so hopefully that'll get better when I practice remembering dreams.

Just wanted to share my background with you. Also I'm wondering, given that I've been able to pull this off without even knowing that it was possible, but also given that I have no idea what triggered this (aside from my earlier flying dreams which I don't have anymore), is there anything that I can take from this story that points me towards certain methods that might work better for me?

I figure I should just focus on DILD since that's what has worked for me in the past, and aside from that I don't have much to go by but maybe someone here can share some insights.