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