Thread: Hello!

Hi everybody. I've lurking here for a while now and figured I might as well set myself up an account so I can get a bit more involved

I probably heard of lucid dreaming at most a year ago (My friend had one or two and was very excited, though he didn't pursue it much further) but didn't really act on it. I then (Just a month ago exactly) was watching a youtube channel and the topic came up again. This time it stuck, I started a dream journal the next day and had my first lucid dream only 8 days later (23rd May), after reality checking daily like a possessed man.

Since then I've had six more LDs and dream recall has improved massively - The past three nights I have recorded 7,7 and 8 dreams (only one or two were small fragments).

For two of the dreams, I'm not entirely sure what I did to induce them, though I'm pretty sure it was a WILD (FILD to be precise) that started the first and then the second came with a DEILD. I didn't know that's what I'd done at the time, but I then went on to intentionally DEILD a few days later, scoring some nice flying action and also a very intense "being-run-over-by-a-truck", shortly after becoming lucid...

I realised recently that I don't think these are my first LDs: I have a strong memory from when I was a kid of running in the school playground very fast, my body almost horizontal, and then taking off and flying around. This was a recurring dream, as was a particularly vivid nightmare I had every night for perhaps two weeks while I was three - four years old.

At the moment I'm working on keeping my sleeping schedule in check and also working on constantly checking to see if I'm dreaming. Last night I had some sort of mishap and I only recorded a tiny fragment of a dream where my eyes had become glued shut with sleep, though aside from this, I've been jotting down at least 3 or 4 nightly for the last month. I think perhaps the lack of dreaming action last night was a result of Volleyball training close to bed time, and the fact that I wore a sleeping mask for the first time ever last night (hence the glued eyes).

I'm also trying to get a WILD to happen, though at the moment I tend to lie on the brink of sleep but with no dreamlets coming to me for often more than an hour. I have had HHs though, one of which (my door handle creaking VERY loudly) woke me up a few weeks ago. The other two were more clear and distinct: one was a rushing sound, just before my 5th and 6th LDs, and the other was the sound of cars honking (before getting run over in dream )

Well that's me for now! I'll keep you posted on my progress. In future I'll try keep the length down a bit I hope my style of writing is pleasing enough though

EDIT: (already). I'm sitting my final high school exams at the moment, so deliberate alarm-set WBTB is not an option I'm considering for the next two weeks until I'm done. I naturally have been waking up at 04:05 pretty consistently every night though, so I'm still getting my WILD opportunities.