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.