Hello DreamViews.

Hey, I'm new and you may call me Icebender :). I'm 14 and I've known about lucid dreaming for a while. In fact, I've had multiple intentionally induced lucid dreams before. But, that was quite a while ago, they were short and unsatisfactory. I soon gave up on lucid dreaming because it began to feel like a chore. Now I'm coming back, and I'm determined.

Back then, I tried to pick up lucid dreaming for the sheer entertainment factor, I think that hindered me in the end; I had no discipline, whenever I got lucid, I just ran off and did pointless things. Now, I want to experience something new, something different, maybe learn something on the way. I am still having issues about staying committed (Oops, looks like you've forgotten to do even a single RC the whole day!), but I'm determined to induce some high quality lucid dreams!

About 2 weeks ago, I had my first lucid dream since I started back up again. It still wasn't as clear as I would of liked. I forgot a lot of it. I attribute some of it to the fact I don't have a dream journal yet. It was a DILD (MILD? I'm confused about the relation of the two) that occured after I attempted to WILD after like, 6 hours of sleep when I randomly woke up.

No matter how hard I tried, I could not fall asleep while attempting to maintain awareness. As I tried, there were moments when my senses numbed and my body relaxed, but then I thought about sleep paralysis. And then I got worried I would get sleep paralysis. And then I worried that X character from X horror movie/show/game would appear in it. My body would tense up, my heart would speed-up, and I would have to start all over. So I eventually gave up and let my conscious drift away, but the intention to lucid dream stuck in my mind, and I realized I was dreaming quite quickly once it started. I don't remember doing anything interesting in said dream, other than trying to maintain awareness and practicing basic dream control.

So yea, nice to be here. I wasn't planning for this to be long but I kinda got carried away, sorry! XD

Oh god, finally. There comes someone around my age in Dreamviews community. (13 here, yay.) Welcome! Congratulations for your great head-start to intentionally induce a lucid dream. Now I look back at my low progress, only to feel ashamed. :P From what I've understood, there are two main types of lucid dreams: WILD and DILD. Wake-initiated being one you try to drift off sleeping while maintaining consciousness. Dream-initiated, relying on your sense of reality suspecting; includes reality checks! MILD: mnemonically induced lucid dream, mainly relying on your prospective memory. I should be able to say this is part of DILD. Quite useful telling yourself to reality check whenever you see a certain thing (your dream sign), and get lucid at that point in your dream. It's all about intentions to do something, believing that ou can lucid dream. This can also be used for other various things, whether that will be remembering to do X. For example: staying still in your bed to do DEILD, visualizing your next dream and such. Read the full thread!

Whatever you believe, become true; including your scary things imagined when you were in sleep paralysis. Personally, I feel quite fine with my dream control. It's still a long way until I'll be able to induce a lucid dream at will. So, ...jealous. i cri evrytim. I'm looking forward to feel familiarized with you soon! Repeating, welcome to the community. Hello then!

Insert quote of AquaBlitz here because I cant post links in my comments yet, lol

Hey! Thank you for clarifying about DILDs and MILDs. Most of my lucid dreams happen when I have a strong intention to lucid dream before I go to bed. Also, my dream control is crazy unstable. Sometimes I can fly and summon basic things, other times I can't even control my dream body correctly! It's weird. I say we're pretty even :cheeky: