Hello all,

Just made this account today after spending 2 weeks browsing the various posts here. I made an account because I was wondering is everyone capable of lucid dreaming (or even remembering dreams) with enough practice?

I found out about lucid dreaming while killing time on youtube about 3 weeks ago. One channel led to another and eventually one that explained what lucid dreaming was came on. It got me very interested I did some research for a few days and then started trying it myself starting with a DJ. Here is where I hit my wall. In that time I have 2 entries in my DJ, I can't seem to remember my dreams. Sure i'll have one here and there where I remember a boat (for example) or another where I remember a store, but that's where the memory ends and I can't just write "boat" in my DJ. There are only 2 dreams I can remember that I wrote down and they are very short. I've tried all the various techniques i've read here and in books, because i've been keeping a DJ but at the same time attempting to LD. I've tried WILD a few times and DEILD because I tend to wake up naturally in the middle of my sleep which I think has to do with the fact that I work nights and sleep during the day. Also tried DILD and a few others but I think I either can't LD or I just never remember it even if I do because my dream recall sucks. I figured after roughly 3 weeks of telling myself i'll remember my dreams and drinking some apple juice before going to bed and not moving after waking would allow me to at least remember something so that I can actually start writing more in my DJ to get this whole process started. This has been a normal thing to me before I found out about LD, i've always typically remembered like 1 or 2 dreams a month and usually the whole memory fades within a couple minutes of waking up. I was hoping that being more aware of remembering dreams and starting a DJ would make it so I remember better but no dice....
Any advice?

One thing that annoys me (which is probably just jealousy lol) is that my wife, who tells me about her dreams daily in GREAT depth and detail having entire stories remembered has very little interest in LD, this never bothered me before until I learned about LD. Also turns out when I told her about what LD is she tells me that she controls her dreams and is lucid dreaming ALMOST EVERY NIGHT and thought this was just a natural thing that everyone was able to do having never mentioned it or talked to others about the fact that she knew she was dreaming and could control some aspects of it. She used to keep a DJ as a kid just as a hobby (doesn't anymore) and does nothing to try to induce LD it just happens to her naturally more frequently than not but still she has no interest she says "it's just a dream"
Anyone else in this forum have just a natural knack for LD?