Been reading these forums for about 2 weeks now and finally decided I should start posting. Ever since finding out about LD (In a Star Trek Voyager episode, lol) ive been fascinated by it. Ive read through these forums for hours and hours now, all the tutorials and posts about peopels experiences, and the whole thing excites me. Wish I had found out about LD sooner. Ive also read through Stephen LaBerge's first book "Lucid Dreaming" which I picked up second hand for like 3 bucks and went through all the most important material in it, and his more popular second book just arrived in the mail.

I have yet to have my first LD but I woke up the other night in SP and lost it due to excitement, and have yet to be in that situation again since. However, I have been averaging out to one dream a night I can remember, and have been recording them in my dream journal. I am waking up in the middle of my sleep cycles (Not with SP, except for the one time) but am unable to enter into a WILD. It takes me a while to fall asleep and I find if I am focusing hard on trying to WILD I just can't fall asleep period. As for DILD, I am constantly doing reality checks throughout the day by looking at my watch or hands, and have made myself a few dream signs to watch for but I am so passive in my sleep I never am able to do these things while dreaming. Even if I have the most bizzare dreams I fail to recognize anything of it in my sleep. So any advice would be great, but keep in mind I have read most of what there is to know for begginers. Anyways, I plan to keep trying as long as it takes, and glad to see such a great community out there for LD.