Hey guys im new here and im really interested in lucid dreaming, I got here because ive been wondering how astral projection works because it seems very insteresting and i figured out its almost the same thing as lucid dreaming so i found this site and now it seems that lucid dreaming is much more cooler than astral projction so i really wanna be a lucid dreamer .

I came here two nights ago and have been trying to lucid dream scince then, two nights ago i was really excited that i was going to lucid dream and i fully convinced myself that id remember my dreams and i kept doing reality checks in real life. I had decided i was gunna try to WILD because it seemed effective.

I slept and woke up after 5 hours and i thought really hard if i had any dreams but nothing came up so i browsed these forums for 30 minuted and went to bed to try to WILD. I felt my body going numb and i felt strange sensations on my body which i thought was really cool, I was using the breathing technique and when i got to around 450 inhales i was counting random numbers in my head and little sounds that i could barely hear were now amplified and i could hear the screeching in my head which was actually my dads soothing music disorted in my ears and then i started becoming aware again and i thought i screwed up so i propped myself up and gave up . I decided to sleep normally and remember some dreams...

When i woke up and thought a bit i realized i had remembered 4 dreams!, thats 4 more dreams than i usually remember I quickly recorded these in my journal. The first three dreams were short and i never went lucid but on my last dream there was a part where i wa sstanding in a sotre and suddenly im like "Am i dreaming?" but i made the error of not doing a reality check and i turned around and did a long jump... When i landed i lost control the dream just went on.

Last night i tried to WILD again but incresed my awake time to 40 minutes but i ended up giving up around 250 because i was very uncomfortable in different ways and when i went to sleep and woke up i didnt recall a single dream . Are there any suggestions for a better or more effective method i could use? im really excited and im glad i found you guys and this site, thanks! (Sorry if this is so long im still kinda excited)