I'm not new but...

Hello everyone, I'm not really new here, but I noticed that I haven't introduced myself properly yet.

I love calm music, tea with milk and am fluent in 3 languages and learning a 4th one. I'm a ridiculously vivid day-dreamer; imagining myself having powers, going to planets, and even having a conversation with myself. So lucid dreaming is the best way to make those things come true; life can be exhausting and the things that you can do is limited, so that's a great way to have time to enjoy yourself in your own world. Also, if I get spaced out oh boy, I won't notice even an alien invasion.:chuckle:

I've known about lucid dreaming since last year, and it was a mind blowing thing to know that something like this is possible. I didn't fully believe in such a thing as lucid dreaming at first (Well I did, but it seemed too good to be true), but seeing that people are actually serious about this topic and are posting their experiences raised my hopes up.

I was really getting into it, watching YouTube videos, reading forums and practicing a lot. I stayed in this state till about 2 months later when nothing was happening and I started losing motivation. I gave up one day and coincidentally on the same day, I got my first lucid dream (click here), it wasn't much of an experience like other first lucid dreams, but it was a big deal for me as it gave me hope and started getting into it again.

Unfortunately, I got too busy with school and forgot about it for a while. But now I'm back on track and struggling with fixing my sleep pattern, because mine is horrible(sleeping at 2:00 am and waking up at 12:00 pm, and if I have school I still sleep at 2:00 am and wake-up at 5:30 am:disconcerted:). I seem to only remember my dreams if I slept till 12:00 pm, I don't get any recall when I sleep early like at 9:00 pm, so this means that my REM cycle is very badly adjusted(I would really appreciate some tips on this).

I am doing some dream journaling, but there's nothing much to write because of my recall. But once I fix my sleeping pattern hopefully I'll get better recall and remember 3 dreams a night or so and some are lucid (that's my goal).

I tried to make this introduction as brief as possible, and I hope I could get along with other oneironauts in here.:content:

Please feel free to drop in any tips or things you've learned to help me in my lucid dreaming journey!

Thanks for the introduction, Mazerg!

It sounds like you have it under control. Fixing your sleep pattern and dream journaling is a way to go. For now, even if you don't remember a dream, post in your dream journal anyway. Any small detail that you can remember, even if it's just a color or a feeling. Think about your dreams and remembering them often and pretty soon you will start to remember them. A mantra as you falling asleep "I remember my dreams when I wake up" can help you do that as well. Good luck and keep us posted!

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Originally Posted by gab

Thanks for the introduction, Mazerg!

It sounds like you have it under control. Fixing your sleep pattern and dream journaling is a way to go. For now, even if you don't remember a dream, post in your dream journal anyway. Any small detail that you can remember, even if it's just a color or a feeling. Think about your dreams and remembering them often and pretty soon you will start to remember them. A mantra as you falling asleep "I remember my dreams when I wake up" can help you do that as well. Good luck and keep us posted!

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Thank you gab. I've heard about this before; that it doesn't matter how much detail I remember from a dream or even if I don't remember anything at all, I should just write "No recall" or something. But I didn't really take it seriously, thank you for the reminder and encouragement! I will try to post from now on any detail I remember from a dream and I will see how to goes ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ.

And thank you for the reply, I've been waiting for feedback for a few days now...Stay awesome.

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Originally Posted by Mazerg

... I should just write "No recall" or something.

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That would be ok. But, it's better to have positive thinking. Set an intent. If your mind hears you say "no recall" , it will think, ok, no recall then. But if you write "my recall is good and getting better every day", then your mind will believe that and will help you remember your dreams. It's about what we think and what we believe.

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Originally Posted by gab

That would be ok. But, it's better to have positive thinking. Set an intent. If your mind hears you say "no recall" , it will think, ok, no recall then. But if you write "my recall is good and getting better every day", then your mind will believe that and will help you remember your dreams. It's about what we think and what we believe.

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Oh I see, thank you for the advice!