Hello everybody,

you lovely guys have helped me before so I hope you can do it again....

I started "practising" about two months ago and I'd say that I had about four lucid dreams altogether since then. Is that normal?? It seems to be happening so awfully slow.... I got a bit frustrated in the meantime but during the last two weeks I've been telling myself to relax as being frustrated wouldn't help.

My first three lucid dreams were very brief and surprised me so much that I woke up within seconds. I was still very excited about the progress though. Funnily enough, they always happened on Saturdays so the fact that I can sleep in on Sundays and won't have to get up early for work or gym seems to have an impact.

My first more "successful" lucid dream happened last Monday though - it was the first time that I could actually walk around and observe things without zooming back to being awake. I could make things happen but not to my full satisfaction yet - in the dream I was playing soccer with a few boys and I could make the ball kinda come towards me. But then somebody grabbed it which caused me to beat him up Funnily enough, I then thought "girl you have some hidden anger management problems here" as I realised I'd done that before in dreams - beat people up when they did something I didn't like! (Maybe I should mention that I don't tend to beat people up when awake...) As I realised that, I stopped kicking the boy's head, apologised and continued walking around....

Well without going any further into detail, I thought this last dream was quite a progress. But still - isn't it happening awfully slow? Two months seems like such an awful long time to be doing reality checks during the they and everything else involved. I tried several methods as I thought that maybe I just haven't found the one that worked for me yet. Before the dream on Tuesday I had woken up briefly so I thought the wake-up-and-go-back-to-bed method might do it for me, but it hasn't worked since. Of course I can't try every day as I have to get up at six in the morning on several days a week.

Then one thing that *always* sparks off lucidity for me is flying! Does anyone have advice on how I can manage to involve that ability into my practice??

Part of why I think things are happending too slow is because I always thought I had a rather good access to my subconcious and my dreams. Dream recall, for instance, has always been easy even without practice.

Hope anyone has advice - thanks for you time!