Greetings from No'way!

[AniBaggins]

Hey there! I just joined the forum today, and wanted to introduce myself. I'm a 22 year old woman from Norway, and I have experienced lucid dreaming a couple of times throughout my adolescence. I didn't think too much about it back then, not until I turned 19, when I learned that it was possible to learn how to trigger it. I went into a lot of research at that time, and had at least 5 or 6 successful lucid dreams. Usually I would figure out that I was dreaming, since I practiced RCs regularly. At that time I had one successful attempt at WILD. This is also the lucid dream I remember most vividly. I have never felt so energized and happy after taking a nap! At some point my mind started to focus on other things in my life, and LD was put aside. Not every attempt I did was successful, and my friends though I was crazy for spending time on this. Three days ago I picked up where I left of. I started a dream journal, and just three days in I'm already able to recall more than I was before. I have kept a dream journal before, mostly because I often return to the same places when I dream. I still flip through it once in a while, and can clearly remember dreams I had ten years ago. Last night I got really far - I was entering SP when my heart beat suddenly increased. A lot. I tried to focus on my breath, and kept thinking that it would go away, but it didn't. It just grew stronger, and at one point it felt like my left overarm was beating with it. I think I ruined it when I took one large breath, in hopes of calming my heart beat. I'm trying it again tonight! Hopefully I'll get over the phase with the heart beat and slip right into dreamland! Other than that I live with my fiancé, who isn't really into my "dream stuff". He rolls his eyes when I start talking about lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis or WILD.