My name is Daniel, I first learnt about lucid dreaming when I watched a movie called Waking Life, indeed i'm sure many of you have seen this movie or heard of it. Anyway, I then read up about it on the internet a bit and let it go, for several years in fact. Then, about a week ago I was in a book store doing some Christmas shopping and I fell apon "Lucid Dreams, A Concise Guide....". Since then I have been working on my dream recall, only to realize that I didn't recall to well, so far I've only remembered about 4 dreams in the last week and only partially at that, I do have a DJ, and I'm doing the reality checks and reminding myself constantly as i'm drifting to sleep that "I will wake up and remember my dreams".

However now that I'm working on what I'm guessing is the first step; Dream recall, i have a few questions, and I appoligize if this has been covered before in another topic.

1. Are there any other techniques other than Reality Checks and reminding yourself to remember dreams that people have also mentionned helps dream recall?

2. As a newbie without the necessary dream recall, should I be worried about learning to become lucid along with my dream recall exercises, or should i take it one step at a time?

And on a last note, this is by far, in general, the most friendly and organized forum I've seen. Thanks