Hi everyone,

I've known about lucid dreaming for a while and tried it for the first time a while ago (at the start i wasn't trying very hard and so wasn't successful). I then started to try again last week and was amazingly successful (it shocked me, lol). I've decided to join this forum because it seems to be a great community which i'd love to get involved in! I also have heaps of questions on lucid dreaming...

I managed to lucid dream by repeating in my head "I will remember to realise that I'm dreaming". When I fell asleep I somehow knew I was dreaming (didn't need to do a reality check or anything). This happened again with another dream where I saw a huge rock/comet in the sky and realised I was dreaming but did no reality checks. Should I be doing reality checks? Or doesn't it matter?

My dream recall is pretty good (around 2-3 dreams a night as long as I write them down straight away afterwards).

I've had 3 lucid dreams in the span of around 4 nights (1 on the first night and 2 on the 4th night). I've found that as soon as I think about something (even if I don't want to do it or for it to happen) it ends up happening. Is there a way for me to stop this?

I'm currently trying to make friends appear in my dreams (I tried in my first ever lucid dream and was only kinda successful, I had the feeling they were there but couldn't really see them, kinda like thinking about someone without being able to imagine what they look like). Does anyone have any tips on making people appear in your dreams?

Anyway, in my last lucid dream I managed to fly (going to find a friend) which was very fun. I didn't write down the lucid dream straight away after though so I dont remember all the details...

Do things like waking up to go to the bathroom ruin my chances of having a lucid dream? For example, If I get up to go to the bathroom and then go back to sleep will I end up not being able to lucid dream again? I worry that i'm waking myself up too much and then won't be able to lucid dream again.

I have heaps of questions I just can't remember anymore right now, lol. Anyway, it's late and I have to get to sleep (hopefully to lucid dream!). Sorry for such a long post, but I had a lot to write,

InvaderGarf