Hey all,

I've been experimenting with lucid dreaming off and on for maybe 3 or 4 years. I've probably successfully had about half a dozen or so that I can remember. Often I drift away from it as I get lazy about the practice of maintaining a dream journal, but I'm getting back into it now and am serious about keeping up with it.

One of the problems I'm having now is dream recall. Last night I did considerably better, remembering four dreams, but the past week I've always been able to remember at least one, but often only one, and those are often fleeting. Usually when I pick up the practice of keeping a dream journal again my recall improves dramatically, but it doesn't seem to be happening this time. Sometimes I try affirmations, telling myself to remember dreams, but it's always been hard for me to keep that up. My mind doesn't seem to want to repeat the same thing to myself over and over again.

I'm also finding that I'm having a lot of dreams where I'm watching a movie or television show, and it can be tough to pick that up as a dream sign. Perhaps it shouldn't be for me because I don't watch television at all anymore (I don't even have service at the moment) and haven't been watching movies all that much lately. But sometimes as I'm writing down these dreams it's frustrating how mundane they are.

Anyway, I am an aspiring writer, and sometimes I feel lacking for inspiration for subject matter... when I find a subject that sparks my imagination I can be a very good writer, but I get blocked a lot. So one of my main goals is to use dreams for creative inspiration.

I expect I'll be spending considerable time on these boards now that I've found it. Hopefully I'll have some great experiences to share with you all.

-SSX