your opinion...

okay, i've been on this site for 8 days now. you people are all great making everyone feel welcome immediately and offering help left and right. and i seem to be having trouble getting the ball rolling so to speak in terms of improving dream recall and having lucid dreams. i've tried every technique on the site to find ways to improve my ability to remember dreams and i always seem to wake up the next morning vaguely remembering a fragment of just one dream. and the only real experience i've had was body paralysis on my first night. i've tried setting alarms to wake me up after REM cycles and when they go off they seem to scare the dream right out of me and I forget it. so to be honest. i need your help. everyone who reads this please post some of your techniques or ways to improve mine so I can finally make some progress. thanks.

Yea, for some people alarm clocks going off will actually make you forget your dreams.

My advice is to make sure you have plenty of sleep, and try to remember the dreams that occur closer to morning, as they are the easiest to remember.

If you haven't tried wake back to bed method, or getting up every 2 hours to see if you can remember anything, try those methods now, though as warning they can tire you out pretty quickly.

You can use my method, in which I wake up as the sun raises, I open my window and close the curtains to make it dark again. And go back to sleep for about another hour. I have gotten frequent long dreams with this method.

But most importantly realize that dream recall is a very hard step to conquer and master, don't get frustrated, as stress could be counterproductive.

Hey skateboard 814.
You will find a lot of the advice you will recieve is to not try to hard. Which is true.
If your schedule allows you the best set up for a Ld is to have a good nights rest. wake up for at least an hour. then go back to sleep. With will say: I am going to remember to recognize that I am dreaming. And mean it. Don't just say it for the sake of saying it.
Good luck!!!!!!!!! :D

thanks for the advice, last night when i went to bed i didn't read about lucid dreaming like i usually do. my thought was to not even think about it or worry. around 4:30 this morning i woke up and i remember looking at the clock thinkin 'what the crap am i doin awake at 4:30.' i started to go back to sleep when i realized i had just woke up from a very detailed dream. my first since i started. i wrote the whole thing down and laid back down sayin 'i will remember i'm dreaming when i'm dreaming.' after around 5 minutes of this my body felt kinda numb and my i started seeing colors swirling around. after this i think i fell asleep cause the next thing i remember is waking up to my alarm at 5:30. so thanks to all you who wrote advice. later.

It almost sounded like you were heading into WILD's. You may have been successful if you would've maintained consciousness longer, probably just concentrated on breathing methods. But thats great now that you've had a detailed dream. I would've told you earlier to just try and wake up a little earlier so you can catch your REM cycle, but you beat me to it. Congrats, keep it up. :goodjob2:

wow.
coolio.
just stick to it, and dont get too lazy and not write stuff down.
if you're really tired and dont feel like writing it all take notes.
that's what i do in the wee hours.
jot down stuff.
like taking notes for class.
yeah.

keep at it...practice makes perfect ey......

next time u see the imagery try and picture an image or setting related to ur previous dream if possible
might help with a wild

thanks you guys. seems like this is the nicest group of people i've ever met on the internet.

And Remember -

AnArChY RuLeS!!!!!!