Hi i am new here and have a few questions

**WampusTheCat** · 09-04-2014 06:00 PM

First off i just want to say hello to everyone. I am pretty new to lucid dreams but slowly getting the hang of it. I started getting into lucid dreams a couple years ago, but it was hard as my dream recall is and has always been rough and fragmented. Most of the time i dont remember any dreams, sometimes i remember having a dream, but i cant remember anything at all about it. So i started a dream journal several weeks back. My recall has definitely gone up, but about a week ago i hit a roadblock. im back to not remembering any dreams at all, except for my breakthrough last night with my very vague dream. (Only 3 sentences in my DJ) So i guess my first question is, is this normal? having dry spells i mean. Also is there anything i can do to help this? The main reason i actually joined this sight today is to get a little insight on this.

Second question. I know WILDs are slightly more advanced methods, but i wanted to try and see if i could do it. I think i am very close to it, but when my mind tries to transfer over to the dream world, i realize whats happening and get sent straight back to my waking body. Its like a little fat boy that cant get over a fence, he just gets close enough to the top he can see to the other side for a moment before falling off LOL. Thats the best way i can explain that. Any help with this? am i trying to hard? or not hard enough?

Thanks for any insight and also for welcoming me into this nice place you have lol

**CHiLLEN** · 09-06-2014 04:12 AM

Welcome Wampus.

There's plenty of articles on here for improving dream recall that should help. I know if my mental state isn't right, my recall suffers. So if you suffer from any type of depression then maybe that's what is effecting your recall?

Have you read much stuff on recall and WILD?

**Verre** · 09-06-2014 07:28 AM

Welcome! Everyone's wired differently, but I can reassure you that I, for one, see dry spells as completely normal, if annoying. Some days I have amazing dream recall, I can go on for pages and pages, and other days my recall is so vague that even if I'm sure I dreamed something, I can't think of a single concrete word to describe it. It's even more disconcerting when I can remember only tiny fragments of what I know was an incredibly long and complicated narrative. I've been paying attention to this for a long time but I still haven't found any patterns that predict why my dream recall is better some nights than others... it doesn't seem to have much to do with what I eat or drink the day before, what vitamins or supplements I take, how much I slept or how often I woke at night.

So take heart! The best thing to do is to be consistent and keep at it. Write down as much as you can remember each day, and even if some days are a total wash, others will reward you with richer details.

As for your trouble WILDing, I've had lots of successes over the years but lots of failed attempts too... and probably far more of the latter than the former. Sometimes I feel like I'm in an arms race with my own mind -- lucid dreaming is hard work, or at least my mind insists on interpreting it as such, so usually it would rather just lazily fall asleep than have to keep paying attention. It can take relentless determination and persistence to succeed at WILDing, but it's worth it, so don't give up! There's a lot of techniques you can read about on these forums, so keep trying new things to find out what works best for you. Honestly I don't find DILDing any easier, just more random.