I'm a long term dream journal writer (15 years or so, though I go through on and off periods). I have moved from Australia to South Africa for work and left my old journals back in Oz and thought "damn, I can't look at the old ones, why not do the journal online so it is always accessible regardless of where I am". Thus, I am here.

I want to start writing again because I know that if you do, you start remembering more and more, to the joint it can be overwhelming since I am a night urinator (I used to keep my dream journal in the loo with a pen and when I went to the loo during the night I would write some key words.. Sometimes in morning I would open the book and read these words and realise that I didn't even remember writing them but they would trigger a memory of the dream.. Sometimes it was three times in a night..)

But more so, last night I had a lucid dream and it was so exciting, exhilarating (I will write about it in my dream journal so I won't repeat it here) that I thought "I want to put more into this". As an ex-party dude, I'm now straight but I miss the psychedelic experience so may as well pursue it endogenously! I've had three lucid dreams but have only been able to initiate one of them deliberately, the others have just happened because I realised in the dream that I was dreaming but didn't wake up. I've put a lot of time (and money) into hypnosis and self hypnosis and have loved relaxation routines (you are a bottle.. Etc) so I figure I should try WILD, though the DILD "look at your hands thing" has never worked of me.. I spend most of my lucid dreams just testing the limits of the space, like flying, making objects move, trying to will beautiful women into them (without much success at this last in I have to say) and I want to move past this and start interacting with people..

A last question: I searched the forum for "cheese" and found no references here.. I have found it really accelerates dreaming, like nicotine patches. Any thoughts on this?

Looking forward to dreaming w y'all, thanks for having me..