I came across this site when I typed in something related to daydreaming in an internet search engine, and now I'm completely intrigued, if not obessed, with the idea of having lucid dreams. I feel like I've wasted so many of my waking hours daydreaming, when having lucid dreams for the the same reason seems so much more practical. I do have a few questions relating to LD's w/ a little bit of background for anyone who can relate...

1. Vibrations. I've had this a few times in the last couple of months when falling asleep but they've scared me to the point of being fully awake (although now I understand after reading through DV what might occur following them). I've been using deep breathing exercises simply to aid in falling asleep for the last 6 months or so, and that's when the vibrations have been felt. So my question is: is it normal to experience these when falling asleep for those who do breathing exercises at night for the same reason, and does this hold hope for having an LD that night?

2. Dreams documented over 10 years ago - will these still help me discover my dream signs? The night that I found this site, I thumbed through my old journals from when I was about 12-14 years old and found that I had well-documented some dreams that occured (including drawings) and found that almost every dream had included being in/involving a house. Can those coincidences be used as dream signs even though they were so long ago? I've restarted a dream journal now, but was wondering if I should let the old 'signs' go and see where the new journal takes me, or to go w/ the old ones and compile them w/ the new (which I originally planned to do)?

TIA, Kay