Thanks for the kind words of welcome. I'm excited about the affirmative decision to pursue this old, but satisfying experience and see if I can recoup some of the abilities I once possessed. Its been a long time since I put any effort into cultivating, and enhancing my dream world/life, so I've been pleasantly surprised by recent results. Until I actually read up on lucid dreaming and began to employ some of the techniques I read about, I'd not remembered a dream in ages. Remembering ten dreams in three weeks is like an avalanche to me, so I am really encouraged.

One thing I've ALWAYS been able to do was to suggest to myself a time to wake up. I have this incredibly accurate internal clock. I never really need to set an alarm (although I always do). All I need to do is tell myself what time I want to wake up, and I usually nail it to the minute. I'm hoping whatever that ability represents will also help me achieve a lucid dream (or maybe several) in 2014.

Anyway, once again, thanks for the nice words of welcome.

Frank