Hi guys,

I joined a week or so ago but never actually made an official hello post. I think I might be among the older of the community at the ripe age of 32! Still, hoping I have many many years left of enjoying this new skill (and mastering it).

I am new to LDs and had my first one after reading about their existence briefly in the book Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. That was to date my longest LD (a total of 4 seconds maybe). I've since been implementing MILD techniques:

  • RCs throughout the day - stop, look around, genuinely believe I'm dreaming, ask myself a Who What Where analysis to see if that makes sense, then try and poke thumb through palm.
  • Before bed meditation to calm my mind, followed by a mantra that I will have an LD tonight - this is mainly to psyche myself up and give myself a positive outlook
  • In bed - tell myself "I will remember my dreams" and visualise myself writing them down.
  • Waking up at 4:30 - 6:30am - write down any dreams in bullets, then repeat to myself 'Remember I'm dreaming" while visualising my previous dream and me becoming lucid and my goal (currently just being lucid long enough to touch the ground and look around)
  • On waking, don't move, run through my dream recall then write it down.


I actually kept a dream diary before even knowing what Lucid Dreaming was, so my recall isn't too bad. I used to just write down the funny/interesting ones though so now I'm doing it consistently every day! I've basically noticed that my dream signs are:

  • finding myself at school again or with old school friends (people I haven't seen in 17 years!)
  • being on some kind of transport like a train, plane or coach
  • being in my childhood home again
  • being flirtatious with some complete stranger (I have a bf so this is quite strange but happens often!)


Because of this, I try extra hard to do RCs when I'm around people - I might take a moment to look at everyone around me and ask myself 'do I know you from school? Are we at school? How do I know you? Does this situation make sense'? I've not been great at remembering to do this in the moment, mainly because I'm engaged with the conversation and being present with people - anyone else have this problem?

I've had a total of 5 LDs since Jan 24th. They have all been from DILD. But I have woken up every time after realising I'm lucid. Mostly because I'm really scared that I'm in a dream, even though it isn't a scary dream, it's just the realisation overwhelms me and I choose to wake up! Ironic because I want so badly to have an LD where I can relax enough to stabilise myself and then have a wander about!

This is an enormous intro post, so thank you if you've actually made it this far! I did have a few questions to ask if anyone can help:

  1. I've seen people say they have a mentor here - what is the process of getting one?
  2. Should I be visualising a more exciting goal than being able to stay lucid long enough to walk about?
  3. How have people dealt with dream signs that don't happen IWL - such as old friends & childhood home?
  4. Any tips on not getting scared and wanting to leave the lucid dream as soon as I become lucid ha!


Excited to have found this thriving community and excited about developing my LDs!